Chocolate Cake Dripping With Chocolate Sauce
- 8 ounces butter, completely melted
- 8 ounces caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 ounces self-raising flour
- 2 ounces cocoa powder
- 4 tablespoons strawberry jam
- Sauce
- 1 tablespoon boiling water
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- 4 tablespoons golden syrup
- 1 tablespoon icing sugar
- Cream the butter and caster sugar until white and fluffy.
- Beat each egg individually into the mix.
- Stir in the vanilla extract.
- Sieve the flour and cocoa powder together and fold in gently.
- Line two 9" cake tins with greaseproof paper and evenly pour the mixture into both.
- Pre heat the oven to gas mark 5/190u0b0C/375u0b0F and cook for 25 minutes.
- Turn the tins after 15 minutes so that the cakes rise evenly.
- Cool on a wire rack.
- For the sauce mix the boiling water and cocoa powder together in a saucepan.
- Add the golden syrup and icing sugar.
- Bring to the boil stirring so as not to burn the sugar.
- Allow to cool, it will thicken as it cools.
- Cover one cake sandwich with the strawberry jam and place the other on top.
- Cover with the chocolate sauce.
butter, caster sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, cocoa, strawberry jam, sauce, boiling water, cocoa powder, golden syrup, icing sugar
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-cake-dripping-with-chocolate-sauce-163671 (may not work)