Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake  - a quick, inexpensive cake to make

Allie requested my recipe for chocolate slab cake - well this is it.

This is the chocolate cake I learnt to make in cooking in Form 1 (yep, I'm that old - we still had Forms when I was in high school).

To make the slab cake that fits my baking dish, I quadruple the recipe.

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:
1 cup SR flour
1 cup sugar
3tbsp cocoa
1/2 cup milk
1tsp vanilla extract
3tbsp butter, melted
2 eggs, beaten

Method:
Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Grease and line either a lamington tin or a round cake tin. Mix all ingredients together until combined. Pour into prepared pan and bake 30 - 35 minutes until cooked. Let sit in tin a few minutes before turning out to cool.

Now to make this a bigger cake, I simply double, triple or quadruple the recipe and extend the baking time accordingly.

Someone has asked if the cake can be frozen - of course it can! It's a simple version of a butter cake, and freezes very well. Iced or plain, it can be frozen whole or sliced.