Anne’s chocolate cake
I’ve told you before that I can’t do light and fluffy – which is why I don’t cook sponges or cakes much. But my daughter’s friend, Anne, assured me that this was an easy-peasy, one bowl, one spoon chocolate cake – that ANYONE could make.
I especially liked the sound of the ‘one bowl, one spoon’ – not too much mess to clean up.
And this is how it goes . . .
Mix 1 tblspn white vinegar with
1 cup of evaporated milk.
Sift 1½ cups sr flour, pinch salt,
½ cup cocoa
1 tspn cinnamon
1½ tspn bicarb soda
1¼ cups castor sugar into a bowl.
Add 155g melted butter
1 tspn vanilla
2 eggs and the soured milk.
Beat vigorously with a wooden spoon until smooth (if you use up a few calories making it, you can eat a bigger piece when it’s cooked). Bake in two greased, paper-bottom-lined, 20cm round tins. Bake at 180ЉC for 30-35 minutes.
When cool, you can sandwich them together with jam and cream and dust with icing sugar as Anne does. Or, because I couldn’t be bothered going out to the shops to buy cream, I cooked mine in a lamington tin and iced it with coffee icing (holding back on sprinkling with coconut so I wouldn’t get complaints from my false-toothed friend who says it gets under his plate!)
Glen
