Heavenly Chocolate Cake

Method

• step 1

  Preheat the oven 240C/gas

• step 2

  Mix the butter and sugar with electric mixer until fluffy.

• step 3

  Add in eggs one by one and mix after each addition. Add in vanilla. (add a couple of tbsp of flour if the mixture splits)

• step 4

  Beat in the melted chocolate.

• step 5

  Fold in the rest of the dry ingredients and mix well.

• step 6

  add a cup of milk if the mixture was hard to mix.

• step 7

  Put the mixture in a greased round cake tin and in the oven on 240C for 5 minutes then on 160C for 1 hour.

• step 8

  FOR THE ICING:

• step 9

  use a pot with a thick base to melt in the chocolate WITH the double cream. Keep stirring till you get a viscous homogenous chocolate mixture

• step 10

  Using a large spoon spread the icing on the cake WHEN IT IS WELL COOLED and put in the fridge for the icing to get harder.