Fred's chocolate cake from jvc

nut free kids can help can make in advance ok to freeze vegetarian
Category
Cake and dessert recipes
Serves6
Prep time 10 mins
Cook time30 mins

Mumsnetter ratings

based on (2) reviews
Ease of finding ingredients 10
Ease of cooking10
Success with kids10
Success with adults9
Overall Mark 10

Ingredients

7oz SR flour
8oz sugar
4oz marg
2-4 tbsp cocoa powder (depending on taste)
2 eggs
Whole milk - about 1/2 cup

For the butter-cream icing (I'm afraid I always guess the quantities):
Icing Sugar
Butter
Cocoa

Method

Mix flour, sugar, marg, and cocoa in Kenwood (or similar) until breadcrumb consistency.

Crack eggs into mug and fill to brim with milk. Chuck into bowl and whizz very quickly until smooth consistency (no longer than 1 minute).

Pour evenly into 8" cake tins and bake in mod hot oven for approx 25-30 mins. Turn out.

Make butter-cream icing and sandwich together when cake is cold. Wait til next day to scoff, as it goes lovely and sticky on outside of cake.

Mumsnetter Reviews

From: theDreadPirateRoberts on Tue 02-Jun-09 20:08:48 Overall rating: 9.8
Wonderstuff - the easiest cake recipe I've ever followed, and a proper chocolatey sponge. Made one in the morning for an emergency birthday cake (joined halves with whipped cream instead of butter icing), liked it so much I made another lot of mixture, spooned into 12 muffin cases and baked for 35 mins at 160. Was very popular with local kids.
From: jvc on Fri 25-Jan-08 13:41:13 Overall rating: 0.0
Very easy, and never fails (for me)!



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