Recipe#6377

Title: Moist Chocolate Cake (English)

From: "ray.watson" 
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 19:19:50 +0000 

      3 oz Drinking chocolate
      4 oz SR flour
      6 oz Margarine
      6 oz Caster sugar
      3    Eggs, well beaten
      1 tb Hot water
           FILLING
      2 oz Margarine
      2 oz Drinking chocolate
      4 oz Icing sugar
           Water or milk to
           Mix, if required
           GLACE ICING
      6 oz Icing sugar
      2 oz Drinking chocolate
      2 tb Water to mix,approx
  Set oven to 350/F or Mark 4. Grease and line two 8 inch sandwich
  tins. Sieve together the flour and drinking chocolate. Cream the
  margarine and sugar together in a bowl until light and fluffy. Beat
  in the eggs, a little at a time, adding a tablespoon of the flour
  mixture to prevent curdling. Fold in the remaining flour and
  chocolate mixture and stir in the hot water. Put the mixture into
  the tins and smooth the tops. Bake for 25 minutes or until the
  surface springs back when pressed lightly. Remove the cakes from the
  tins and cool on a wire rack.
  Buttercream fllling:  mix all the ingredients together until smooth
  and light. Spread on one of the cakes and sandwich together.
  Icing:  add the water to the sugar and the drinking chocolate to
  form a thick paste and coat the top of the cake before serving.