Food

Chocolate Fudge Cake

1.  Preheat the oven to 180?C, gas mark 4. Grease and line 2x 18cm sandwich tins with baking parchment.

2.  Place margarine, sugar and eggs into a bowl with the sieved flour, baking powder and cocoa.  Add 2 tbsp of hot water and beat well together with an electric hand mixer for 1-2 minutes.

3.  Divide evenly between the sandwich tins and bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes until well risen and springy to the touch.  Remove from the tins and cool on a wire rack.

4. Melt the butter and chocolate with the milk in a bowl over a pan of simmering water.  Sieve the icing sugar and cocoa into a bowl and using a wooden spoon, beat in the chocolate mixture along with 1 tbsp hot water.  The mixture should be thick enough to spread onto the cake. (If not, leave to cool a little).

5.  Sandwich the sponges together with a quarter of the icing.  Use the remaining icing to cover the sides and top of the cake.  Decorate with mini fudge bars.

What you'll need...

100g soft margarine
100g light soft brown sugar
2 medium eggs
100g self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp Bournville Cocoa Powder
Icing:
50g butter
75g Bournville, broken up
2 tbsp semi-skimmed milk
225g icing sugar
1 tbsp Bournville Cocoa Powder
3 mini Fudge bars, halved or 2 Fudge bars, each cut into 3  

Extra equipment you will need:

2 x 18cm sandwich tins
Electric hand mixer



Borrowed from www.cadbury.co.uk