Mandy's Chocolate Cake
This one pot chocolate cake will soon become you go to chocolate cake recipe.
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 (1 cup)
- 2 Tbsp golden syrup
- 125 ml milk (½ cup)
- 225 grams flour (1½ cups)
- 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
- 225 grams icing sugar (1 ½ cups)
Instructions
Cake
- Pre heat your oven to 180 degrees and prepare your cake tin (either a brownie tin or a round tin will work)
- Use a medium sized pot and melt the butter, sugar, golden syrup and milk over a medium heat on the stove top.
- While that is melting place the baking soda in the second measure of milk and set aside.
- Once the mixture in the pot has melted, add the cocoa.
- Take the pot off of the heat and allow to cool for ten minutes before you add the flour in small batches, mixing 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.