I need to make a chocolate cake for tomorrow

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

I forgot I was supposed to be doing this

I have 4 eggs, flour butter, hot chocolate mix, brown sugar, caster sugar , a little bit of cocoa, some chocolate spread and 150g of plain chocolate.

Can anyone help a lazy toad with a simple recipe please.

Eggcellent.

lol.

It is the easiest cake recipe ever.

Want a bigger/smaller cake? Use more/less eggs

Want chocolate cake? Add cocoa

Want marbled cake? Split the finished mix into 2 or 3 small bowls and add a few drops of food colouring or cocoa to each bowl. Drop into tin in spoonfuls (no not mix) and bake and you get a marbled cake.

Recipe also makes great cupcakes if you put it in cake cases and bake.

If you have a lot of drinking chocolate, this recipe (Claire Macdonald) is excellent - it uses plain flour and turns out nice and fudgy while still rising OK. This is for a lowish cake in an 8" tin - double quantity in two tins makes about a 3-4 inch high cake.

6 oz (175g) butter
6 oz (175g) brown sugar
4 large eggs
8 oz (225g) drinking chocolate powder
3 oz (75g) plain flour
few drops of vanilla essence

Cream butter and sugar and add eggs one by one. Add sieved flour and drinking chocolate & vanilla essence. The mixture will be fairly runny. Bake at 350F or 180C for about 30 minutes.

fudge icing - melt 2 oz butter and 2 oz caster sugar and boil for five minutes - beat as much as required into 6 oz icing sugar and 2 tbsp cocoa.

wow it is actually a bit of a revelation. You are right, no more recipes. I can be a domestic Goddess!

lol!!!! x-posts Vesela - will copy that in case I'm ever really low on flour.

Mmmm, fudge icing.

This thread is no good for my diet!

PS, the marbled one is great to make with toddlers. Mine loves dropping the mixture into the tin and it makes no difference how much mess he makes

Loaf cakes I find the easiest. Cooking time tends to be 45-55 mins.

Fudge icing. Tried that a few days ago... It went dark brown then set solid. Think I did something wrong... didn't pay enough attention but that's often how it is with children present.

FUDGE ICING CORRECTION ALERT - sorry, I forgot to add the 6 tablespoons of water that you boil together with the butter and sugar - otherwise would be a very sticky mess .

OYBBK - yes, it's amazing that a cake with that little flour actually works, but it does.

(why do my *s and ^s for bold and italics never work?)

Yes not much flour but you are using loads of drinking chocolate powder!

I use milk instead of water for fudge. Really should get a sugar thermometer, may help me stop burning the fudge, or turning it into toffee.

vesela You need to put the ^ or * around every word, not just the whole sentence. As soon as there is a space, it ignores the previous symbol.

thankyou goldensnitch

yey thats better

i just made one - 6 oz marg, 5 oz sugar, 4 oz self raising flour, 3 oz cocoa, some melted choc, 3 eggs. cooked in middle of oven for about 35-40 mins,,,