Chocolate Cake!
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highlyeccentricK wants chocolate cake recipes, but my recipe book is missing. Forthcoming posts are the result of a Quest through the cookbooks on mum's shelf.
1. Double Chocolate Cake- from the Women's Weekly Kid's Cookbook. (A two-hat recipe, no less.)
125g softened butter
3/4 cup caster sug.
2 eggs
1 1/4 cup SR flour
2 tbsp custard powder
1/3 cup cocoa
1/2 cup water
Buttercream: 125g butter, 1 1/3 cup icing sug sifted, 1/2 cup cocoa, 2 tbsp milk.
Oven: 180 degrees c.
Tin: 23cm round or equivalent
Put butter, sugar, eggs, flour, custard powder and cocoa in mixing bowl. Add water and beat for 2 min on low and 4 min on high.
Spread evenly in tin.
Bake 40 min on 180 degrees c. Turn onto a rack to cool.
Put butter, icing sug, cocoa and milk in a small bowl.
Beat 1 min on low and 4 min on high.
Cut cake in half. Spread buttercream on bottom. Stick top back on. Cover cake in buttercream.
1. Double Chocolate Cake- from the Women's Weekly Kid's Cookbook. (A two-hat recipe, no less.)
125g softened butter
3/4 cup caster sug.
2 eggs
1 1/4 cup SR flour
2 tbsp custard powder
1/3 cup cocoa
1/2 cup water
Buttercream: 125g butter, 1 1/3 cup icing sug sifted, 1/2 cup cocoa, 2 tbsp milk.
Oven: 180 degrees c.
Tin: 23cm round or equivalent
Put butter, sugar, eggs, flour, custard powder and cocoa in mixing bowl. Add water and beat for 2 min on low and 4 min on high.
Spread evenly in tin.
Bake 40 min on 180 degrees c. Turn onto a rack to cool.
Put butter, icing sug, cocoa and milk in a small bowl.
Beat 1 min on low and 4 min on high.
Cut cake in half. Spread buttercream on bottom. Stick top back on. Cover cake in buttercream.
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Date: 2008-11-25 08:47 am (UTC)