Mariana is very excited as she turns 6 at the end of the month and she asked me if i could make her a practice birthday cake. This is a simple oldy but a goody chocolate cake recipe and as you can see it satisfied the demand!
125gm butter
175gm sugar
2 tlbsp. golden syrup or honey or omit
1 egg
1 .5 cup flour
2tblsp cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup milk
1 tsp baking powder
cream butter and sugar
add egg and golden syrup and mix
sift in flour, bp and cocoa and add alternatively with baking soda mixed in with milk
line a cake tin with baking paper
bake at 180 or slightly lower if using fan oven for 1hr. keep an eye on it and it the top is cooking to fast cover with tin foil
ice with chocolate icing and serve with lashings of cream!!
