Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake

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% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas mark 3 and line 2 x 20cm round tins.

Step 2

Melt together the butter, cold water and chocolate for the cake in a saucepan. Once melted remove from the heat and set aside.

Step 3

Mix together the flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and sugar. Add the melted chocolate mixture to the dry mixture along with the eggs and oil. Beat for 4 minutes until smooth.

Step 4

In the meantime add the lemon juice to the milk to sour it. Add this to the cake mixture and beat for another minute until really creamy and smooth.

Step 5

Divide equally between the two tins and bake in the centre of the oven for 50 - 55 minutes until well risen a toothpick comes out of the centre of the cakes clean. Cool on a wire rack, out of the tins.

Step 6

Make the icing by scalding the cream in a saucepan (where it bubbles at the outer edges) and then stir in all the chopped chocolate until smooth. Leave to set at room temperature. Once thick use to sandwich and ice the cake.

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