During my childhood, all family celebrations always included a Chocolate Cake baked by my Mum or Nan. My earliest baking adventures always involved chocolate cake. This recipe, dubbed the Never Fail Chocolate Cake, is still a firm favourite with my family. Light and moist (an low in fat) it can be whipped up quickly, and is always a crowd pleaser. I have inherited my Nan’s cake plate, that always made an appearance at birthdays and celebrations. It always brings back memories of our family gatherings.
Never Fail Chocolate Cake
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Never Fail Chocolate cake is a light, moist cake that is easy to prepare. Guaranteed to be a crowd pleaser.
Author: Lisa
Recipe type: Cakes
Cuisine: Baking
Serves: 12
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons cocoa, sifted
- 1 cup self raising flour, sifted
- 1 cup sugar
- Three quarters cup milk
- 2 eggs
- 3 Tablespoons butter, melted
- Vanilla essence
- Icing:
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 1 Tablespoon cocoa, sifted
- 1 teaspoon butter, softened
- vanilla essence
- boiling water
- moist sweetened coconut
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 °C (355 degrees F). Grease and line a 22 cm ring pan (9 inch).
- Combine dry ingredients in bowl. Make a well in the centre and add milk, eggs, butter and vanilla.
- Mix on low speed until just combined. Increase speed and beat well for 3 minutes or until changed in colour.
- Pour into prepared tin and bake for 30 -40 minutes, or until cooked when tested. Place tin on wire rack to cool. Spread cold cake with icing.
- Icing:
- Sift icing and cocoa together. Add butter and essence. Add boiling water a teaspoon at a time until it is at a spreading consistency. Spread cake with icing and sprinkle coconut on top to decorate.
Cake always looks lovely when presented on vintage china with linen napkins. Follow our easy tutorial to make your own Linen napkins and add some class to your next afternoon tea.
Yum. This looks really tasty. I don’t have a ring tin. What tin can be used instead?
You could use a bundt tin in place of a ring tin. If you use a round cake tin or a loaf pan, you will need to adjust the cooking time.