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Luscious Chocolate Cake

Recipe submitted by Philippa

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Incredibly easy, light yet so chocolatey - one bite and you're in Chocolate Heaven!

Serves 8 to 10

Ingredients

2 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp bicarb soda
1 tsp salt
1 ¾ cups caster sugar
½ cup cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup strong espresso-type (wet) black coffee (not a cup of straight nescafe!)
2 eggs
1 cup sour milk (or half sour milk and half cointreau/rum/grog of choice)*
½ cup oil (i prefer macadamia)
icing
2 tsp butter
1 tblsp hot water
1 cup icing sugar mixture
2 tblsp cocoa

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Method

Grease and line with baking parchment a square or round springform pan.
Preheat oven to 180DegC.
SIFT dry ingredients.
Combine wet ingredients into a measuring jug/bowl then gradually add to the dry ingredients.
Beat for two minutes until smooth & runny.
Bake in square or round springform pan, 20cm greased & lined tin at 180 degrees C for 1 ¼ hours. (75 minutes)
Leave in tin for 15 mins before turning out.
Ice and store in an airtight container, or if hot weather, in the fridge.
Method for Icing:
Sift cocoa & icing sugar.
Put butter into hot water until almost melted & mix into icing sugar mixture.

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Notes & Tips

* to sour milk, add juice of one small lemon (about 1-2Tbls) to pasteurised milk - it will curdle & thicken. While I sift my dry ingredients, I also add them to my electric mixer and allow the whisk blade to aerate them as well, then add the wet ingredients. it SHOULD serve 8 to 10 - or 1 or 2 major chocoholics!

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Preparation Time: 15M

Cooking Time: 1H15M

What do you think?

NB2 July 2010

Made this using sour cream (as there was a tub in the fridge) and it was delicious. Oh so moist and very light. Thanks for the recipe.

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- Philippa October 2010
  
  Glad you enjoyed it! Nice idea substituting the sour cream for the soured milk... will have to give it a try. Thanks for your feedback & suggestion ;-)
  
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Philippa Jane October 2009

For a hospitalised friend I converted this to a cupcake - it makes around 30. Cook for approx 20 minutes. I doubled the quantity of icing and had enough to ice all 30. She'll be able to keep them in her fridge and have her chocolate cravings met!

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Charlene6 October 2009

This chocolate cake is lighter than the usual devils food cake - but oh so chocolatey... the icing is absolutely delicious - a wonderful birthday cake for all chocolate cake lovers :)

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ube September 2009

wow this looks like THE perfect cake for birthdays! I'll be trying this one for mine - thanks for the recipe!

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- PW12 September 2009
  
  you're most welcome ube - it really is one of the easiest cakes I've ever made.
  
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