Chocolate Cake Recipes

Ingredients

Cake:
500 ml (2 cups) cake flour
350 ml (1 1/2 cup) sugar
Pinch of salt
125 g (1/2 cup) butter or margarine
125 ml (1/2 cup) cocoa powder
5 ml (1 teaspoon) baking soda
125 ml (1/2 cup) buttermilk
2 eggs
250 ml (1 cup) water

Frosting:
75 ml (1/4 cup + 1 heaped tablespoon) butter or margarine
75 ml (1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon) buttermilk
30 ml (2 heaped tablespoons) cocoa powder
375 ml (1 1/2 cup) icing sugar
5 ml (1 teaspoon) vanilla essence

Method

1. Sift the flour, sugar and salt together.
2. Heat up the butter, water, oil and cocoa.
3. Let it cool down a bit.
4. Mix the buttermilk and baking soda.
5. Beat the eggs into the buttermilk mixture.
6. Mix the flour and buttermilk mixtures together.
7. Bake in a square baking tin at 200 degrees C (390 deg F) for 20 minutes.

Frosting:

1. Heat up the butter, buttermilk and cocoa.
2. Bring to the boil.
3. Remove from stove.
4. Sift in the icing sugar while stirring.
5. Stir in the vanilla essence.
6. Pour hot sauce over hot cake.
7. Let it cool down in the fridge.
8. Serve.

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