Grandma Valentine's Chocolate Cake Recipe at MyDish

Grandma Valentine's Chocolate Cake

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Method

  • Cream butter and sugar until creamy white in texture
  • Add eggs and mix
  • Add flour and then remaining ingredients
  • Grease 2 small cake tins and pour mixture equally into each tin
  • Cook cake for 25 minutes at gas mark 5 (190C)
  • When ready cool on baking trays
  • I like to fill with strawberry jam and whipped cream sprinling icing sugar on the top for decoration.

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    Tips

    • The quantities are for a small tin. For a larger cake double the quantities. Make into a heart-shaped cake using a tin for Valentine's Day...

    Comments Add your comment

    • Hey Ambertru,2 teasp instant coffee in as little boiling water to mix. Leave to cool.This is about right for an 8 oz mix.Hope this helps.Jason.

      by Jason Fletcher on Wed Mar 3 2010   reply to this comment

    • I would love to try this recipe. However I'm American and I don't know what coffee essence is, nor could I find it available to purchase on line. Can someone tell me if you know of a substitution that I can use instead?
      Thanks!

      by ambertru on Fri Oct 9 2009   reply to this comment

    • A good old chum of mine wouldn't drink real coffee. He was a veteran of WW2 and he loed his Camp Coffee. It's not actual coffee, but chicory based. But I can see it would work well in this recipe.

      Put that light out!

      by wilsondan on Fri Feb 13 2009   reply to this comment

    • Indeed, Camp coffee is still in the shops! Although as I recall my mum had a very old bottle of it that just kept giving... Perhaps when Zoë is 12 (DOB 14.2.08) the bottle I bought last year will still be in circulation - let me know if you try the recipe and like it!

      by Valentine on Thu Feb 12 2009   reply to this comment

    • Coffee essence (camp)? Do you mean Camp Coffee? Is it still available?

      by wilsondan on Thu Feb 12 2009   reply to this comment

    Ingredients

    • 6oz Sugar
    • 6oz Butter
    • 3 Eggs
    • 6oz Flour (self raising)
    • 3tbs Coffee Essence (Camp)
    • 1tbs Golden Syrup
    • 2tsp Vinegar
    • 1/3tsp Cream of Tartar
    • 1.5oz Cocoa Powder

    By Views 3887  Added Thu Feb 12 2009


    An interesting twist on a standard chocolate cake

     

    I used to make cakes regularly as a young girl taught by both my mum and grandma. Move forward a few decades and the occasion of my son Luc's 1st birthday - the first time I had made a cake since the early 1980's I used this recipe passed on now thro Read More

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