I made this gorgeous cake last week and thought I'd share the recipe with you...
Nutty Devil's Food Cake
175ml milk
50g cocoa
250g soft brown sugar
100g marg
2 beaten eggs
175g self raising flour
Pinch of salt
Pinch of baking powder
50g of mixed chopped nuts
Icing
Real butter
Cocoa
Icing sugar
Little milk
Decoration
Flake
Chocolate buttons
1). Preheat oven to 180oC/ 350oF/gas mark 4.
2). Grease and line an 18x28 cm deep cake tin.
3). Slowly bring to the boil the milk, cocoa and 175g of the sugar. Boil for 2 mins, stirring all the time and leave to cool.
4). Cream the marg with the remaining sugar and gradually add the eggs.
5). Sift in the flour, salt and baking powder alternately with the cocoa mixture.
6). Stir in the nuts and pour into the tin.
7). Bake for 25-30 mins and cool on a wire rack.
8). Make the icing...I do this without weighing out the ingredients, I just melt a heaped tablespoon of butter with a tablespoon of cocoa. I add some icing sugar (off the heat) and a little milk. I keep going until it is the right spreading consistency and the right colour. Beat until smooth with a wooden spoon and spread over the cooled cake.
9). Decorate... How ever you wish, but I sprinkled over a flake and decorated with chocolate buttons.
Cut into squares and enjoy!
Mandy xx
That cake looks yummy - I will have a go at making it. I have a cake in my cake tin at the moment - just two of us so lasts for ages. I made a sour milk spice cake - very yummy - first time I had a made a cake using oil.
ReplyDeleteSounds like an interesting cake to make. Let me know if you make the chocolate cake :)
DeleteMandy x