Chocolate cake

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Chocolate cake

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This is a proper chocolate cake recipe, for those times when a Victoria sponge recipe with added cocoa powder just won't do! The pan of water in the oven makes the cake moist and prevents the crust from drying out.

Ingredients

175 grams dark chocolate broken into squares
200 grams butter unsalted
200 grams Allinson Nature Friendly Self Raising Flour
300 grams Billington's Light Muscovado Sugar
30 grams cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
4 Happy Eggs beaten
40 grams Billington's Golden Icing Sugar filling, sifted
20 grams cocoa powder filling, sifted
30 grams butter filling, unsalted, softened
1 tbsp water filling
60 grams Billington's Golden Icing Sugar sifted
20 grams cocoa powder sifted
1 tbsp warm water

Serves: 6 Preparation: 15 Cook Time: 30 Total Time: 45min

Directions

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Preheat the oven to 180 C, 170 C fan, Gas Mark 4. Put some water in a cake tin or roasting tin and put in the base of the oven. Line 2x20cm sandwich tins, with baking parchment.
In a small pan set over a very low heat melt together the chocolate and butter with 100ml water. The mixture will be smooth and glossy.
Sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder and baking powder. Mix in the eggs until well blended. Stir in the chocolate and butter. Spoon into the prepared tins and smooth the top. Bake for 30 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean when inserted. Remove from the tin, and set aside on a wire racks to cool.
Meanwhile, make the filling and icing. For the filling beat together all of the ingredients and refrigerate until required. For the icing, mix together the sugar, cocoa and dried egg white, then stir in the water until a dropping consistency. You may need a little more water.
To assemble, put a dab of buttercream filling on the centre of the serving plate, and put one cake on the plate. Spoon on the remaining filling, and top with the other cake. Spoon over the icing - to encourage it to drizzle evenly, spoon into the middle, and with the back of the spoon, make circular motion on top of the cake. Allow the icing to dry for 10 minutes before decorating.

Source: BakingMad.com