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BIRTHDAY MILK CHOCOLATE CAKE

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The most chocolatey chocolate cake! My mum used to bake it for my birthdays,and im passing on the tradition by baking it for my 5 yr old nephew,and will do for my own children when they come!

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Ingredients

For the cake

  • 7 oz self-raising flour
  • 8 oz superfine sugar
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons cocoa
  • 4 oz margarine (or butter)
  • 2 beaten eggs
  • 5 tablespoons evaporated milk
  • 5 tablespoons water
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For the milk chocolate icing

  • 2 ½ oz butter (or margarine)
  • 4 tablespoons cocoa
  • 8 oz confectioners' sugar
  • 3 tablespoons hot milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Method

  1. Cake: Sift together the flour, superfine sugar, salt & cocoa. Rub in the butter/margarine. Stir in the egg mixture Beat well Bake for 35 mins in 2 greased 7" tins at gas 350 F
  2. Milk chocolate icing: Melt together butter/margarine and cocoa Stir in confectioners' sugar, hot milk and vanilla. Beat until thick. Put a layer between cakes and ice top and sides. This cake is best left a day for icing to harden slightly(if you can resist the gorgeous chocolatey smell!)

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