This Chocolate cake recipe is an old favourite in our house, I’ve been using it for over 20 years, it’s easy to make & pretty foolproof. The kind of recipe where you stick all the ingredients in a bowl, mix it and then shove it in the oven. It tastes amazing & really is the best chocolate cake ever!

Here’s the recipe if you want to have a go yourself –

Chocolate Cake

190 g Self Raising Flour sifted,
4 tablespoons Cocoa Powder
1 teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
150 g Caster Sugar
2 tablespoons Golden Syrup
2 Eggs, beaten
150 ml Sunflower Oil
150 ml Semi-skimmed Milk

Filling/Topping

Preheat the oven to 170C, 325F or Gas Mark 3. Grease 2x 20 cm round sandwich tins and base line with greaseproof paper.

In a large bowl, place the flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, caster sugar, golden syrup, eggs, oil and milk. Beat the ingredients together until the mixture is smooth.

Pour the cake mixture into the sandwich tins, an equal amount in each. Bake for approx 35 minutes until the cakes are springy to touch.

Meanwhile, melt the butter in a saucepan, then stir in the cocoa powder. Cook gently, stirring continuously for 1 minute. Stir in the milk and icing sugar. Remove from the heat and beat with a wooden spoon for 1 minute.

Cool slightly and then use half the icing mixture to sandwich the two cakes together and then spread the other half on top of the cake to decorate.

Don’t worry if the icing or filling drips over the edges, it keeps the cake from being dry around the edges.