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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Chocolate Layer Cake

A very yummy and easy choclate cake recipe:
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup cocoa
1 1/2 tspns baking soda
1 1/2 tspns baking powder
1/4 tspn salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup oil (canola or light olive oil)
2 tspns vanilla
1 cup boiling water

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
Grease and dust two 22cm layer cake pans with cocoa.
In large bowl combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir with wire whisk until blended. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla and beat well with wire whisk or electric mixer until combined, about 2 mins. Stir boiling water into cake batter.
Pour thin batter into the prepared pans. Bake for 30-35 mins or until cake pulls away from sides of pan, top springs back when lightly touched and a toothpick or skewer inserted into centre comes out clean.
Cool for 5 mins in pan and then remove from pans and cool completely on wire racks.
Fill and frost with Chocolate Frosting. I cheated and used the chocolate flavoured icing mix from supermarket which was very nice.
ENJOY!

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