Yummy Chocolate Cake

This cake is exactly as described – yummy, chocolate and easy to make in the top oven of your Everhot. Get baking…

Ingredients

For the yummy chocolate cake:

• 225g self-raising flour
• 225g margarine or butter
• 225g caster sugar
• 1.5 tsp baking powder
• 4 large eggs
• 2 tbls cocoa
• 3 tbls boiling water

For the buttercream filling:

• 180g icing sugar, sifted
• 4 tbls milk
• 50g butter or margarine

Method

1. Mix the cocoa with the boiling water and allow to cool. Cream together the butter and sugar until soft and pale and then add the cocoa mixture, beating until throughly incorporated. Beat the eggs together and add to the creamed butter and sugar. Sift the flour and baking powder into a mixing bowl and beat into the mix. You can do in an electric mixer all in one if you want to save time.
2. Grease and line two eight inch (20cm) cake tins. Pour the mixture into the two tins equally, flatten to avoid a domed cake.
3. Place in the top oven of the Everhot at 220ºC (factory setting) and bake for around 40 minutes until springy to touch. Remove from the oven and place on a cooling rack. Remove from the tins and turn out on to a wire rack to cool.

For the filling:

1. While the cake is cooling, sift the icing sugar into a bowl and add butter and milk. Beat until light and fluffy. Once the cake is completely cold,  sandwich two cakes together with the buttercream.
2. Dust with icing sugar.

Top Everhot tip

Double the buttercream quantities if you want a topping for the cake as well as filling and decorate with chocolate shavings.