Super easy chocolate cake. This recipe is largely foolproof. As long as you don't miss out any ingredients or anything. The sponge is a Delia Smith recipe, the buttercream is the standard buttercream recipe off the icing sugar packets, and the chocolate icing is from a book of 200+ chocolate recipes.
Chocolate Sponge
225g self-raising flour
225g softened butter
225g caster sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp cocoa powder
Preheat oven to GM3. Wang all ingredients in a bowl and whisk with electric whisk until combined. If you're super-lazy like me, and don't have a helper who likes mixing then you can use a food processor and blitz until combined. Pour into 2 cake tins around 6-7 inch across. Cook in centre of oven for 30 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack to cool.
Orange Buttercream
40g softened butter
75g icing sugar
orange food colouring and/or flavouring
Beat butter until soft and creamy, then sift in icing sugar in small amounts, beating after each addition. Add food colouring and/or flavouring to taste. Use to sandwich cakes together.
Side note: when you spill orange flavouring down your finger, do not, I repeat, do not lick the excess off your finger. Seriously. It BURNS!!
Chocolate Fudge Icing
300g dark chocolate
225g icing sugar
50g butter
4 tbsp milk
Melt together chocolate and milk in a bowl over a pan of simmering water. Or, if you're lazy like me, stick in microwave and radiate for 2 minutes. Stir in butter and icing sugar. Make sure to sift icing sugar first unless you want lumps. Leave to cool. Apply to cake with hot palette knife (ie, Carling pint glass filled with boiling water, and knife sat in it before working, and dipped in regularly to keep hot). Eat remainder out of bowl. Feel sick.
Enjoy! :)
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