Chocolate Cake
A plain chocolate cake used as a blank canvas to finish as you wish.
Keyword:
basic recipe, cake, chocolate cake, storec cupboard
Serves: 1 cake
Gather
- 375 g plain flour
- 7 teaspoons baking powder (check your own for quantities per 100g flour)
- 4 tablespoons cocoa powder (use 1.5-2 if raw cacao powder)
- pinch of salt
- 240 g sugar
- 375 ml warm water
- 85 ml olive oil
- 1 teaspoon coffee granules
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Prepare
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Mix the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder, salt and sugar together.
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In a jug add the water, oil, coffee and vanilla - mix until the coffee dissolves.
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Whisk the liquid into the dry ingredients ensuring all lumps are gone.
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Pour the batter into a lined or greased cake tin. Cook at Gas Mark 4 for 40-50 minutes. When the cake is done, a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake should come out clean.
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Allow the cake to cool in the tin before removing.
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Enjoy!