Small bites - simplicity chocolate cake

I used to make this cake with my mother and now it is one I make all the time with my own children. It is a fool-proof 'single bowl' recipe. My 4.5 year old can manage to prepare almost the whole cake by herself, which she loves to do.

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 cup self raising flour (or substitute 1 cup of plain flour and 1 tsp of baking powder)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla or almond essence

Method

1. Melt the butter.
2. Put all the other ingredients into a large bowl and pour melted butter on top
3. Beat on high for 3 minutes
4. Pour all the mixture into a greased cake tin and bake in a moderate oven.
5. Cook until a toothpick comes out clean (this will depend on your oven and the size of the tin). be careful not to over cook as it is best a little moist.
   

Frosting

Mix cocoa and confectioners sugar with some softened butter. Add hot water very slowly and mix to the desired consistency. Let the cake cool a little before putting on the icing. 

Last winter we did a shoot for the winter issue of Small using the chocolate cake as a prop. The photo session was over very quickly!

Crown from Cakies, scarf from The Academy of Gentle Arts, badge from Sea Pod.

Comments

[Lola]

Both my son and I are chocolate cake lovers and we love to cook together, this is a great idea. Thank you! I shall link to this on my site.

Ciao

[Woman in a window]

Over from Lola's. Nothing but fun to get the kids involved in creating like that...and destroying.

[kamagra]

I'm really truly love chocolate. Is one of the best things on earth.