the mother of all chocolate cakes

Yummo! Katie's chocolate cake so easy and delicious!

Yesterday when I was doing my usual blog roll scan, I came across a fantastic guest post by Katie at Planning with Kids. Katie is a mother of eight children, and her guest post Our Big Family Story was so inspiring and uplifting to me. At the end of her post, Katie shared a recipe for her chocolate cake that she often bakes to feed the tribe when they come home from school. As an avid baker, and a working mother, I am always looking for an easy recipe for something delicious. And well after reading this post and recipe, I just HAD to bake it!


Katie's really easy chocolate cake recipe (as it appeared on Planning with Kids). 

Katie says she uses a large square cake tin or two loaf tins, how ever I used a large round spring base cake tin, and it worked a treat!

Ingredients:

• 125 grams unsalted butter (softened)
• 2 eggs
• 1 ¼ cups sugar
• 1 ¾ cups SR flour
• ½ cup cocoa
• ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• Dash vanilla in 1 cup full cream milk

Method:

1. Mix dry ingredients (I don’t sift – ever!)
2. Add wet ingredients
3. Beat together with electric/hand mixer for approx 5 mins
4. Bake in moderate oven (160 C) for 40-45 mins.

Ice with chocolate icing. Approx two cups icing sugar, 1/3 cup of cocoa, one tablespoon softened butter and water to mix.

Do you have a favourite cake recipe that is really really easy?

Be Happy,

Nicola