Baking Cakes

[jacey]

Just baked two cakes for this evening's concert and the recipe is so easy I thought I'd share it with you. Americans please note that this uses SR - i.e. self raising - flour so you need to add your own raising agent to normal flour before you start and then add the bi-carb soda  (that's baking soda to you) as an extra.

Extra note. This cake contains no wacky and I'm pretty sure that the local lady who passed it on to me didn't even know you could bake wacky substances into cakes so the name is historical and not meant to mislead.

Mrs Green's Chocolate Whacky Cake
8 oz S R flour
1 level tsp bicarbonate of soda
pinch of salt
2 tbsp cocoa (I'm often a bit generous with this!)
8 oz sugar
Mix all these dry ingredients together in a large bowl

Melt 5 oz margarine in a pan
Add   1 tbsp vinegar
          1 tsp vanilla essence
         ½ pt tepid water

Add the liquid to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly to make a batter. Pour into a greased pan approx 10 inches square and bake for 35 mins at gas regulo 5 or 375°F or 190°C. (To make it easier to lift out I put a greasproof paper liner in the pan with 'handles' sticking up over the sides.)

When baked and still hot from the oven put squares of dark chocolate on top to melt and spread it over the top of the cake. (The cake rises into a dome but should sink to level as it cools.) I use about half of a 100 gram bar of chocolate.

Can be eaten hot as a pudding with custard or cream. Or it can be eaten as a cake - fresh as soon as the chocolate is set, but is also great if wrapped in foil and left for a few days to mature and go a bit sticky in the middle. In our house it often doesn't survive that long, however, unless I hide it. (Unfortunately I can't hide it from me.)

Enjoy.

Comments

[brownnicky.livejournal.com]

Thanks. This sounds good. I hate cake and gave up baking years ago because my kids used to eat the damn stuff before I even had time to wash up the tins but maybe it is time to try again.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Especially something this easy. I make double quantities and bake in in square pyrex dishes. i got lots of compliments on it tonight - even from one of my guests who said she didn't normally liike choc cake but she liked that! And even with fifteen people to feed still have half a dozen pieces left.
Yum!