Recipes

Ingredients

• 400g caster sugar
• 225g plain flour
• 65g best quality cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 250ml milk
• 125ml vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 250ml boiling water

Preparation method

1. Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease and flour two 23cm round cake tins.
2. In a large bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, bicarb and salt. Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla, mix for 2 minutes on medium speed of mixer. Stir in the boiling water last. Cake mixture will be thin. Pour evenly into the prepared tins.
3. Bake 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until the cake tests done with a skewer. Cool in the tins for 10 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.