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For the cake

  • 170g butter, softened
  • 340g caster sugar
  • 3 tsps vanilla essence
  • 3 eggs , lightly beaten
  • 170g self-raising flour
  • 55g plain flour
  • 3 tbsps cocoa powder
  • 11 floz milk
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    Method

    • step 1

      Place butter, sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl and beat until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs.
    • step 2

      Sift together the flours and cocoa powder. Fold the flour mixture and the milk, alternately, into the butter mixture.
    • step 3

      Pour the mixture into a greased and lined 22cm square cake tin and bake for 55 minutes or until the cake is cooked when tested with a skewer at oven temperatures 190C, 375f, gas 5.Stand the cake in the tin for 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.
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    A star rating of 2 out of 5.4 ratings

    flintjane192876

    the worst recipe ! The amounts are all wrong . What a waste of time and money. Totally inedible. Please remove this recipe from the wesite.

    EdThomson

    I'm sure there must be typos in this recipe. Almost twice the amount of sugar as a regular pound cake and over half a pint of milk? No wonder it tasted too sweet (even for a cake lover!) and refuses to stay risen. Tried it three times now varying quantities and it just about works with about 200g…

    jayess

    A star rating of 1 out of 5.

    Made this cake and it looked fine when removed from oven. Looked at it after it had cooled and it had deflated by about about inch. Haven't tasted it yet.

    Well have tried it now and it was a disaster! The deflated top was lovely but the bottom half was solid like bread pudding. What went wrong…

    jayess

    What made my cake deflate? I cooked in an 8" round tin and a fan oven at 170 degrees. Checked after 1hr but wasn't done. Then checked every 15 mins so door opened perhaps another 3 times before it was done..

    stephenowen26

    Pound cake traditionally has equal parts (1lb as it happens) of the four base ingredients. This is a good recipe... But it would be more apt to call it just "chocolate cake".

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