Chocolate Cake

This is the ultimate chocolate cake! Perfect for any chocolate lovers who are after a moist, light and fluffy bake with a delightful buttercream icing 🍫

Ingredients

Cake mix

• 200g caster sugar

• 200g unsalted butter

• 4 large eggs

• 200g self raising flour

• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder

• 1 teaspoon baking powder

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1/2 teaspoon xantham gum

• 2 tablespoons plant based milk (I use soya)

Icing

• 100g dairy free chocolate

• 200g soft unsalted butter

• 400g icing sugar

• 5 tablespoons cocoa powder

• 2 tablespoons plant based milk

Method

• Preheat the oven to 170 degrees (fan) and line 2 cake tins

• Mix the sugar and butter, then add in the eggs one at a time (whisking between each egg)

• Add the vanilla and milk to the wet mix and stir

• Sift in the flour and cocoa powder then stir well

• Mix in the baking powder and xantham gum

• When the cake mix is well combined, divide the mix between the 2 tins

• Bake the cakes for 20-25 minutes until fully baked through

• Leave the cakes to cool completely before icing

• Melt the chocolate and then leave this to cool for 5 minutes

• Combine the butter and icing sugar

• Sift in the cocoa powder and mix

• Add the melted chocolate and milk and stir well

• Assemble your cake (you may need to trim the top of one of the cakes to make it flat, in order to sandwich them)

• Spread 1/2 - 3/4 of the buttercream icing on top of one cake, then place the other on top

• Use the rest of the icing on the top layer and decorate however you’d like

• Serve at room temperature, or heated either alone or with some cream/custard/ice cream