Wirral Mums Guide - Basic Chocolate Cake Recipe

If you ever need a chocolate cake, this recipe will do in a pinch. It’s moist, quite delicious and doesn’t require any unusual ingredients. We demonstrate this recipe to make 2 – 9” cakes, but you can adjust the sizes and numbers as you wish. Just make sure the cake is fully baked before removing it from the oven.

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups flour 1/3 cup cocoa powder 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup butter or margarine 1 3/4 cups sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla 3 eggs 1 1/2 cups milk

How to Make It

Preheat your oven to gas mark 4 or 350 F. Then grease and flour 2 – 9” baking pans.

In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, cocoa powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt.Then, in a large mixing bowl, combine the butter or margarine, sugar, vanilla and eggs. Beat on medium-high until well creamed.

Then, start adding the milk and dry ingredients with the wet…a little bit at a time. Mix on medium speed for about 2 minutes.

Pour the mix evenly into the 2 pans and place them in the oven.

Bake for 30-35 minutes. You can tell if your cake is done when you insert a toothpick and it comes out clean. Or simply press down the middle with your fingers. If it springs back, it should be done.