Wednesday, May 23

Best ever chocolate cake?

Most of us have one or two never-fail recipes. Luckily for me, mine is a chocolate one. Now I'm not saying this is the world's best chocolate cake recipe, but it is definitely a great one. It's simple, economical, rich chocolate flavoured, moist and never fails, even when my little helpers helps a bit too much.

This cake freezes well. It makes quite a good size cake so I often syphon some batter off and make some lunch box muffins. Sometimes I make into a batch of chocolate cupcakes instead of a cake.
All you do is sift together into a large bowl:
  • 300g flour
  • half cup cocoa
  • 1 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 t baking powder
  • 2 t baking soda
In another bowl combine:
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cup water
  • 1 T white vinegar (I have often used malt)
  • half cup light vegetable oil
Whisk the wet ingredients, then add wet mixture to the dry ingredients. Break up any lumps. Pour into a greased 22 cm spring form cake tin. Bake in a pre-heated oven just under 150 for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Adjust the cooking time for muffins/cupcakes.


Do you have a world's best chocolate cake recipe? Do you have any never fail recipes to share?

Mummy of Three Small Boys

3 comments:

  1. Should the 300g flour be 300g sugar? I'd like to make my daughter a birthday cake in a couple of weeks & would like to try this recipe :-)

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  2. The recipe was incorrect. Mummy brain to the max.
    It is now corrected. I can not believe that I made such a gaffe. Sorry to take so long to get back to you on this as I was on holiday and Anna answered, but she didnt know it was wrong in the recipe.

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