The Simple 'Throw-It-All-Together' Chocolate Cake

A community recipe by Anonymous

Not tested or verified by Nigella.com

Introduction

This simple cake is perfect to do in large batches and tastes great. You can make the cake as 'chocolatey' as you like and is just as good as a plain sponge cake.

Ingredients

Serves: 0

8 ounces self-rising flour
8 ounces sugar
8 ounces margarine
5 eggs
5 drops vanilla essence
4 teaspoons baking powder
5 ounces unsweetened cocoa (according to taste)

Method

The Simple 'Throw-It-All-Together' Chocolate Cake is a community recipe submitted by Anonymous and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe.

Pre-heat the oven at gas mark 3, 170ÂºC,325ÂºF and grease 2 cake tins.

Sieve the flour and baking powder. Add the sugar, margarine and eggs. Mix with an electric whisker. Add vanilla essence and unsweetened cocoa. Mix again.

Scoop the mixture evenly into the greased tins and place them in the oven for 15 to 20 mins.

For a plain sponge use 4 eggs and miss out the unsweetened cocoa.