John's Chocolate Cake

Added on Fri Oct 10 2008

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The Basics

• Dish: Dessert and Sweets
• cuisine: Austrian
• Serves: 8 - 10
• Prep Time: 0hrs 25 mins
• Cooking Time: 0hrs 20 mins

Ingredients

• 8oz Self Raising Flour
• 8oz soft brown sugar
• 8oz butter /butter substitute for cooking
• 2oz Plain / Milk chocolate grated
• 4 eggs
•  chocolate swirls /grated plain chocolate for decoration
• 4 oz butter cream - icing sugar
• 2 oz butter cream butter / butter substitue
•  2tablespoons of drinking chocolate for the butter cream
• 4oz plain drinking chocolate
• 4oz plain chocolate grated / swirls for decoration
• 1packet milk chocolate buttons if using milk chocolate
• 2oz grated chocolate

Method

preheat the oven to 180C( fan oven ) 350F/Gas mark 4
Grease and flour 2 sandwich 8 inch sandwich tins

Mix the sugar and butter together in a large bowl ( i use a food processor as its so much quicker and beats better than i can!) until soft and floffy
beat the eggs and add these to the mixture
gradually fold in the flour and finally fold in the chocolate
beat the whole lot until its of an easy pouring consistency
Divide the mixture evenly between the two tins , level with a knife and cook for 20 - 25 minutes until soft and springy to the touch.
turn onto a wire rack to cool
while the cake is either cooking or cooling make the butter cream
beat together the seived icing sugar and butter and choclate poweder / drinking chocolate into a spreadable consistency - it should not be too runny if this happens add some more icing sugar then add the remaining grated chocolate into the butter cream
when the cake is cool spread the butter cream between the two cakes and sandwich together - use the remaining butter cream to spread over the top of the cake and sides decorate with swirls and buttons to your taste.
Hope you enjoy it!