OVEN PAN CHOCOLATE CAKE

Ingredients

Cake

750ml cake flour
20ml baking powder
500ml sugar
5ml bicarbonate of soda
80ml cocoa
Pinch of salt
500ml boiling water
250ml oil
10ml vanilla essence
50ml white vinegar

Icing

125g butter
375ml icing sugar
15 – 30ml cocoa
A few drops of vanilla essence
Stiffly whipped cream

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F)
• Spray a 27 X 39cm oven pan with nonstick spray
• Sift all the dry ingredients together into the pan
• Mix the remaining ingredients in a jug and pour the liquid evenly over the dry ingredients, whisking them together using a fork
• Spread the mixture evenly and bang the pan lightly to remove most of the air bubbles
• Bake for 20 minutes or until the testing skewer comes out clean when inserted into the centre of the cake
• Cool in the pan

Icing

• Beat the butter until light and creamy little by little sift in the icing sugar and cocoa
• Beat continuously
• Add vanilla essence
• Spread cake with the icing
• Sprinkle a desired topping over the top