Name: Chocolate cake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 0 serving
Cuisine: Bake
Ingredients: 440.00 g flour cake; 40.00 g cocoa powder; 20.00 ml Baking powder; 240.00 g butter; 320.00 g castor sugar; 4.00 eggs large; 275.00 ml milk; 0.00 butter icing or chocolate ganache; 0.00 chocolate curls or sugared roses

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Ingredients (9)

440.00 g	flour — cake
40.00 g	cocoa powder
20.00 ml	Baking powder
240.00 g	butter
320.00 g	castor sugar
4.00	eggs — large
275.00 ml	milk
0.00	butter icing — or chocolate ganache
0.00	chocolate — curls or sugared roses

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Method:

Sift the cake flour, cocoa powder,baking powder and a pinch of salt in a large mixing bowl. Beat the butter and castor sugar until light. Add the eggs to the butter mixture one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Fold the flour mixture into the butter
mixture, alternating with the milk, until
just mixed. Pour into a greased and lined 26cm cake tin or two 20cm cake tins. Bake in a preheated oven for approximately one hour or until a skewer comes out clean.

Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes. Turn out and leave to cool completely on a wire rack. Spread with butter icing or chocolate ganache and decorate with sugared roses or chocolate curls.

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Butter icing: Beat 150g soft butter until light. Stir in 320g sifted icing
sugar and 20g cocoa powder. Beat well. Add approximately 30ml milk to form a spreadable consistency.

Chocolate ganache: Heat 250mlcream in a saucepan over a low heat.Add 200g dark chocolate pieces and stir until melted. Remove from the heat and leave to cool, then refrigerate until firm. Beat until light and creamy.