Ingredients
- 6oz Butter
- 6oz Golden caster sugar
- 3 large Eggs
- 4 1/2 oz Self raising flour
- 1 1/2 oz Cocoa
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- Dash of milk
Method
- Preheat oven to 180
- Grease/line two cake tins
- Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy
- Beat the eggs together then add a spoon of egg with a spoon of flour until all the egg has been mixed in
- Fold in the remaining flour, cocoa and baking powder
- Add some milk if the mix is dry (the mix should drop from the spoon when lifted)
- Bake in preheated oven in 2 cake tins for 18-20 mins (cake should start to shrink away from pan at the edges and should feel springy to the touch)
- Allow to call in tin for 5 minutes and then turn out on to a wire rack
- Sandwich cake together using chocolate buttercream