Birthday Cake

A lovely lady at work turned 40 and I decided to make her a chocolate birthday cake to celebrate. 

For my yummy chocolate cake you will need:

125g Softened butter

2/3 cup sugar

1/2 cup icing sugar

1 1/4 cups self-raising flour

1/2 cup cocoa

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

pinch of salt 

2 eggs

1 cup of milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Topping:

150g icing sugar

2 tablespoons cocoa

1 teapsoon softened or melted butter

1-2 tablespoons warm water

1. Preheat the oven to 180c. Lightly grease and flour 23-cm cake tin

2. Cream butter with sugar and icing sugar. Sift flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a separate bolw.

3. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture along with remaining ingredients - beat well

4. Spoon mixture into prepared tin and bake for 40-55 minutes or until cooked

To make the topping:

1. Sift the icing sugar and cocoa powder together.

2. Add melted butter to warm water

3. Gradually mix into sugar until smooth paste is formed (if a paste isn't forming add more icing sugar till it thickens up)

Enjoy (sorry I didn't get a photo it was eaten to quickly)

Jessie-Lou

xxx