Egg Free Chocolate Cake – the mathers . ch

Eating cakes isn’t something that I do very often, I can’t eat egg so finding pre-made cakes is difficult and finding recipes that make a good and tasty cake was always a problem – oh how things have changed. It was John and mines anniversary today and I wanted to make a cake to celebrate. So I googled around and found this recipe. As I hadnt baked anything for about 10 years I wanted a simple recipe and you couldnt get much simplier than this 🙂

I wanted to make a note of the recipe, best place to put it was on here as I’ll definitely be making it again, it was delicious 🙂 and sooo simple 🙂

Recipe can be found here as well (in case of link changes)

For the cake:
160g flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
130g caster sugar
150 ml milk (or soyamilk)
60g melted butter (or margarine)
1-2 tablespoons cocoa
For the icing:
300g icing sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons cocoa
2 teapoons vanilla sugar (optional)
100g butter (or margarine)
3 tablespoons coffee

Preparation method

Prep: 15 mins | Cook: 25 mins

Preheat oven to 200 degrees C/ gas mark 4 and grease a round cake tin (22cm).

For the cake: Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Stir in the melted butter and milk and mix well.

Pour into the greased cake tin and bake for 25 minutes.

Remove and leave to cool on a wire rack.

For the chocolate filling/icing: Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Stir in the butter and coffee and whisk quickly, until smooth.

Tip

This recipe makes a lot of icing so what I do, is I carefully cut the cake in half (horizontally) and put the icing on the bottom half like I’m spreading some butter on a sandwich. I then put the top half back on and use the rest of the icing on top to decorate.