Easy supreme chocolate cake

Method

• step 1

  Cream sugar and eggs for cake until pale

• step 2

  Add the dry ingredients and vanilla essence and mix together

• step 3

  Put the milk and butter into a sausepan and melt the butter, dont let it boil

• step 4

  Pour it into the rest of the mixture and beat it until there are loads of air bubbles.

• step 5

  Pour into two greased victoria sponge tins and bake at 200 C for about 15-20 mins

• step 6

  Cool cakes in tins on a wire rack

• step 7

  Beat together the butter, icing sugar and cocoa for the icing. Add vanilla and milk and beat until smooth, add more icing sugar if need.

• step 8

  Remove cooled cakes from tins. Turn one upside-down on presentation plate and coat the top (what was bottom) with a thin layer of icing before adding other cake, right way up, to the top

• step 9

  Spread rest of icing over both cakes and decorate as you please! Enjoy!