BAKING A CHOCOLATE CAKE!!

BAKING A CHOCOLATE CAKE

Yesterday I made a chocolate cake with a thick milk chocolate buttercream icing and in the middle there was posed to be a nice plain filling but as you can tell from the picture above the filling didn't turn out so well.

Here is the recipe If you want to have a go!!

Ingredients

225g	Butter or Margarine (8oz)
225g	Caster Sugar (8 oz)
	Medium Eggs x 4
175g	Self-Raising Flour (6 oz) Sieved
	Cocoa powder (50g or 2 oz) Icing 75 g Unsalted Butter (3 oz) 175 g Icing Sugar (6 oz) plus extra to dust Coco(45g/3 tbsp) about 10 ml Milk or warm water Method Pre-heat oven to 180ºC/350ºF/Gas Mark 4. Grease and line two 20cm (8 inch) sandwich tins. 2 Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs and if the mixture starts to curdle, add a little flour. 3 Fold in the remaining flour and the cocoa powder with a metal spoon. 4 Divide the mixture between the two tins and bake for approx. 25 minutes until golden brown and firm to the touch. Remove from oven and leave to cool before turning out onto a cooling rack.

(Method for the icing is different to the one I used)

5

5 To make the butter icing, place the butter in a bowl and beat until soft. Gradually sift and beat in the icing sugar and then add enough milk / water to make the icing fluffy and spreadable. Sift and beat the cocoa powder in to the icing and use it to sandwich the two sponges together.

Thats the recipe I used mine didnt look amazing but oh well!!!!!!!!