Serves 10
Ingredients
CAKE BATTER
1 cup water
1¼ cups caster sugar
125g butter
½ cup Cadbury® Bournville® Cocoa
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1¼ cups self raising flour, sifted
2 eggs, lightly beaten
CHOCOLATE ICING
200g Cadbury® Dark Cooking Chocolate, finely chopped
2/3 cup cream
Method
- Preheat oven to 190ºC conventional or 170ºC fan forced.
- Line a 20cm cake pan base with baking paper and lightly grease sides of pan.
- Combine water, sugar, butter, cocoa and bicarbonate of soda in medium saucepan; stir over heat, without boiling, until sugar dissolves.
- Bring to boil, reduce heat & simmer uncovered for 2 minutes. Transfer to a bowl. Cool to room temperature (this takes about 30 minutes).
- Add flour and egg and beat until just combined.
- Pour into pan and bake for 40 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes then turn onto cooling rack.
- Drizzle over chocolate icing.
- To make the chocolate icing, combine chocolate and cream in a small saucepan. Stir over a low heat until chocolate has melted and an even chocolate sauce is formed.