For The Cake
Ingredients
25 grams cocoa powder
2 tbsp. milk
4 large eggs
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla essence
125 grams flour
1 tsp. baking powder
175 grams sugar (powdered)
185 grams butter (at room temperature)
Method
Pre-heat the oven to 1500C.Grease a cake tin with melted butter. Line the bottom of the pan with butter paper as this helps the cake slip out of the tin once done.Whisk eggs, vanilla essence & milk in a bowl. Keep aside. Combine all the dry ingredients( flour, baking powder and cocoa powder), mix and keeep aside.
Cream together the butter & sugar. Once this mixture is is soft and fluffy, add the eggs a little at a time.Mix well. Add in the dry ingredients & mix to form a smooth batter.Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top with the back of the spoon.
Bake for about 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove the cake from the oven and place on a wire rack to cool for about 10 minutes. Remove the cake from the pan, re-invert and cool completely. The cake tastes great on its own or u can serve with chocolate frosting.
For the chocolate frosting
Ingredients
85 grams butter (softened)
80 grams cocoa powder
300 grams icing sugar
40 ml cup milk
1tsp. vanilla essence
Method
Sieve together the icing sugar and cocoa powder. Put the softened butter in a bowl. Add to this the icing sugar, cocoa poder and vanilla essence and beat together till soft and creamy. Add the milk in the end to adjust the frosting to the desired consistency.www.medx4u.com
