Chocolate Divine Cake - With Creamy Butter Icing

Meet everyone’s dream cake!

This spongy chocolate cake with generously smeared creamy chocolate butter icing on the top is simply divine!

Even for an absolute novice, making this cake, metaphorically speaking, is a "piece of cake". I suggest buying the best quality ingredients, measuring them using a digital scale which is more accurate and easier are very important to bake a good cake.

So, let’s start making this delicious treat

Ingredients needed:

250g     Self - raising flour

250g     Margarine/spread

250g     Brown sugar powdered

6           Eggs

1tsp      Lemon juice

1tsp      Vanilla essence 

1tsp      Baking powder

3tbsp    Cocoa powder

1/4 cup Milk

3pinches Salt

Let’s make it

Set the oven to 180 C 

Cream the batter

• Beat butter and sugar together until creamy, using an electric hand mixer  (3 mins)
• Add eggs, one at a time. Beat well after each addition (2 mins)
• Add vanilla essence,  lemon juice, and salt, and beat for two rounds
• Mix baking powder,  flour, and cocoa powder and sieve onto the cake batter, holding the sieve well above it, allowing the air to escape
• Add milk
• Beat with the electric mixer until everything comes together
• Then fold gently with a wooden spoon until a creamy batter is achieved
• Finally, give a good mix with a wooden spoon going clockwise

Tray the batter

• Line up a baking tray with parchment paper 
• Spoon the batter into the baking tray and flatten with a spatula, leaving some space on the top for the cake to rise
• Lift up the tray and drop it twice onto your kitchen top gently, allowing the batter to spread and settle evenly on the try

Bake it

• Place the tray in the oven and bake for 20 – 25 mins. In the first 10 mins never open the oven door
• Insert a skewer into the middle of the cake and if it comes to clean your cake is ready!
• Turn the oven off and let the cake stay in it for 10 - 15 mins
• Now, take the cake out of the oven, place it on a cooling rack to cool off completely. This will take 2 -3 hrs.  If you are in a hurry to finish decorating the cake, stick it in the fridge for at least 30mins
• Your cake is ready to ice now

Tip : If the top of the cake has got a nice brown colour but the middle is still very runny, immediately cover the top of the cake with a foil or baking sheet and bake further 10/15 mins.  This will allow the middle of the cake to bake without damaging the upper crust

Chocolate Butter Icing Recipe

    Ingredients:

1`50g     Icing sugar
75g        Margarine
3tbsp     Cocoa powder
3drops   Milk
3drops   Lemon juice
Vanilla

• Sieve icing sugar to get rid of hard bits
• Beat the icing sugar and margarine together
• Add milk, vanilla, and lemon
• Beat at high speed until the consistency is creamy
• Your chocolate icing is ready

Now start frosting the cake 

• Cut the cake into four squares. 
• Dip a long knife in hot water and cut the cake into four 
• Then slice each layer from the middle
• Smear a generous amount of chocolate butter icing
• Place the top layer, press softly
• Cake is sandwiched and ready to serve
• Serve on a pretty plate with a small spoon on the side
• Yummy!