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Eggless chocolate cake
Serves 10
Easy
Total time:
This recipe was submitted by Good Food member juliehore155 and has not been tested by our team.
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Units:
- 85g butterplus extra for greasing
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 300g self-raising flour
- 100g caster sugar
- 25g cocoa powder
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
For the chocolate glaze
- 100g dark chocolatebroken into pieces
- 3 tbsp golden syrup
Method
step 1
Heat oven to 160C/ fan 140C/ gas 3 and grease a 20cm round cake tin.
step 2
Tip the butter, syrup and vanilla into a heatproof jug, add 300 ml boiling water and briefly whisk with a fork to combine.
step 3
Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl, then in tip in the butter mixture. Stir until you have a smooth batter, then scrape into prepared tin. bake for 50 - 55 mins until the cake is well risen and springy to touch. Cool in tin for around 15 mins before turning out to cool on a wire rack.
step 4
To make glaze, put chocolate and syrup into a small glass bowl with 3 tbsp of water, and microwave for 30secs on high until melted and smooth. leave to cool, then pour over the cake before serving.
