Easy chocolate cake!. In a medium bowl, sift together cocoa, flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, then beat in vanilla.

Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating until smooth after each addition. It is a simple recipe, calling for ingredients you most likely have in your pantry and fridge, including flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and soda, eggs, milk, and vanilla extract. This chocolate cake recipe also calls for boiling water, which helps bloom the cocoa powder, giving the cake a deeper chocolate flavor. You can cook Easy chocolate cake! using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Easy chocolate cake!

Prepare 240 g of self raising flour.
It's 240 g of stalk (or unsalted butter).
You need 240 g of caster sugar.
Prepare 4 of medium eggs.
It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
You need 4 tbsp of cocoa powder (sieved).
Prepare 2 tbsp of milk.
You need of Chocolate fudge icing.
Prepare 100 g of milk chocolate broke into pieces.
Prepare 200 g of butter (unsalted).
It's 385 g of icing sugar (sieved).
You need 3 tbsp of cocoa powder.
You need 2 tbsp of milk.

Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. To make this chocolate cake recipe, you'll first mix together the dry ingredients, including the sugars. That means you'll mix together brown sugar, white sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Sift the cocoa powder to avoid chunks if you want.

Easy chocolate cake! instructions

Pre heat oven 160c, prepare square cake tin, grease and line with baking paper..
Mix sugar and stalk together until fluffy in a fairly large bowl..
Get a mug and add eggs and vanilla extract and milk together in mug..
Mix cocoa powder (sieved) and flour and baking powder in another bowl..
Add egg mix into the sugar/butter mix large bowl, and whisk, then add cocoa/flour mix also, whisk for 1 minute..
Pour mixture into square prepared tin, evenly spread. And pop into oven to bake, middle shelf!.
Bake for 30 minutes, until springs back and edges loosen. Leave to cool fully !.
Now make fudge icing!... melt chocolate, leave to cool, sieve icing sugar, and add it to softened butter, make smooth, pour in melted chocolate, and sieved cocoa powder, then add milk.... Mix until smooth!.
Decorate! And add m&ms, or chocolate buttons! Any thing!! Enjoy !.

In a separate bowl, combine the eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla extract. Place all ingredients in order listed in a large bowl; beat well. Frost as desired or dust with confectioners' sugar. For the chocolate cake: Add flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt and espresso powder to a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer. Whisk through to combine or, using your paddle attachment, stir through flour mixture until combined well.