Recipe: Edmonds Chocolate Cake

Last week my friend made a DELISIOUS chocolate cake using Edmond’s cookery book recipe . For the people who don’t know the Edmonds cookery book, it's a book with recipes which are trialed and tested and contains kiwi recipes eg Hokey pokey biscuits = SO YUMMMY

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Edmonds Chocolate cake recipe

175 g butter, softened

1 cup sugar

3 eggs

3 tablespoons cocoa

1/2 cup boiling water

2 cups Edmonds plain baking flour

1 teaspoon Edmonds baking powder

 METHOD

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy

Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition

Dissolve cocoa in the boiling water

Sift flour and baking powder together

Add to creamed mixture alternately with cocoa mixture

Pour mixture into a greased and lined 22 cm round cake tin

Bake at 180°C for 45-50 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched or when the knife is clean when doing the knife test.

Leave in tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack

When cold ice with Chocolate Icing or dust with icing sugar if desired

Tips

- DOn't forget to grease the sides and the bottom of the cake tin so it does not stick to the tin.

- Do not open the oven often because the cake needs the tempreture for it to cook.

- Place a few paper towels on the table before placing the cooling wire rack so that the excess crumbs can be put into the bin or maybe even eat.