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Mandy's Chocolate Cake

This one pot chocolate cake will soon become you go to chocolate cake recipe.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes

Equipment

  • 1 Pot
  • 1 medium sized bowl (for the icing)
  • 1 28 cm x 8 cm brownie tin or
  • 1 20cm round cake tin

Ingredients
  

Cake

  • 125 grams butter
  • 200 grams sugar
  • 2 Tbsp golden syrup
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • cups flour
  • 2 Tbsp cocoa
  • 1 tsp baking soda dissolved in 1 cup of milk

Icing

  • 3 tbsp cocoa
  • 3 tbsp castor sugar
  • 3 tbsp water
  • 3 tbsp butter
  • cups icing sugar

Instructions
 

Cake

  • Pre heat your oven to 180 degrees.
  • Use a medium sized pot and melt the butter, sugar, golden syrup and milk over a medium heat on the stove top.
  • Once the mixture has melted and begun to combine add the cocoa.
  • Take the pot off of the heat and add the flour in small batches, beating after each addition.
  • Lastly add the baking soda and milk mixture.
  • Pour into your prepared cake tin and cook for 20 minutes.
  • Remove from the oven when a skewer can be inserted into the cake and come out clean.
  • Once your cake is cool to the touch - ice the cake.

Icing

  • Melt the cocoa, sugar, water and butter over a low heat until it forms a syrup.
  • Sift in your icing sugar and whip into a smooth icing.
  • Pour onto your cooled cake quickly. It will set fast so move quickly.