March Recipe of the Month

Scrummy Yummy Chocolate Fudge Cake

Ingredients
100g spreadable butter or margarine, plus extra for greasing
250ml milk
100g cooking plain chocolate, melted
15g cocoa powder
300g self-raising flour
1 tablespoon golden syrup
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
225g brown demera sugar
2 eggs
For the icing
225g plain cooking chocolate broken up
100g butter or margarine
14ml carton double cream

Method
1. Preheat the oven to gas 4/5….depending how hot your oven cooks.
2. Grease a 20cm round, deep cake tin and line with baking paper.
3. Place all the other cake ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Pour in the milk and beat with an electric hand whisk or standing electric mixer, until smooth. Spread into the cake tin and bake for 1 hour, until firm in the centre.
4. To stop it over cooking on top but to cook thoroughly through. When top has cooked and set, gently lay on top a piece of foil. Check with skewer, if it comes out clean and the cake has shrunk very slightly away from the edge of the cake tin, it is cooked.
5. Cool for 10 minutes, then turn out on a rack to cool completely.
6. Meanwhile, make the icing. Melt the chocolate and butter or margarine together in the microwave (pop broken pieces of chocolate in a bowl cover with cling film and pierce a couple of times. Shorts bursts of heat is better, to ensure chocolate doesn’t over cook) for aprox.3 minutes on medium, stirring halfway through with a wooden spoon. Alternatively, melt the chocolate and butter in a bowl over a pan of just simmering water. Stir until smooth, cool before you add the cream or it may curdle.
7. Carefully halve the cake through the middle.
8. Spread a quarter of the icing on 1 half and sandwich together. Spread the rest over the top and sides. A good tip to get sheen on your icing is to have a jug of hot water and dip your spreading spatcheler in it, each time before you spread the icing mixture.

The cake will keep for up to 3 days in an airtight box, that is if it hasn’t been eaten as it is so delicious.

Delicious served on one of our pretty tea plates

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