Fantasticly Yummy Chocolate Cake

• 6 oz. margarine
• 7-1/2 oz. caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 3 tbsp. cocoa powder
• 6 tbsp. hot water
• 6 oz. self-raising flour
• 6 oz. icing sugar
• 3 oz. butter
• Vanilla
• 3 oz. good quality chocolate

1. Mix the cocoa and the water until you get a gorgeous chocolatey mixture.
2. Leave to cool.
3. Cream the margarine and sugar until creamy and fluffy.
4. Beat the eggs and then slowly add to the fat/sugar mix.
5. Add the cocoa stuff, then fold in the flour.
6. Bake in two lined 7-inch cake tins for 20-25 minutes at 375F until firm (and risen).
7. Meanwhile, cream the butter and melt the chocolate in the microwave.
8. Mix the chocolate into the butter; add the icing sugar - leave this to cool a bit, but don't chill!
9. When the cakes have cooled sandwich the whole lot together with about half the topping.
10. Plaster the rest on the top.

margarine, caster sugar, eggs, cocoa powder, water, flour, icing sugar, butter, vanilla, chocolate

Taken from www.foodgeeks.com/recipes/2252 (may not work)