Recipe#4019

Title: Chocolate Fudge 01

Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 From: sharon@comlab.oxford.ac.uk (Sharon Curtis) 
 Subject: Chocolate Fudge Cake 
 Message-ID: <1993Nov8.180236.13136@client41.comlab.ox.ac.uk> 
 Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1993 18:02:36 GMT 

5 oz self-raising flour
 1 oz cocoa powder
 3 eggs, beaten
 6 oz butter
 6 oz soft brown sugar
 2 oz plain chocolate, melted
 1 tsp vanilla essence
 Sift together the flour and the cocoa. Cream the butter with the
 sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, adding
 a tablespoon of the flour mixture after each egg. Beat in the
 chocolate and vanilla essence, then fold in the remaining flour
 mixture.
 Pour into a greased and floured 20cm/8" round deep cake tin. Bake
 in a preheated moderate oven (180C/350F/GM4) for 1 to 1 1/4 hours
 or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out
 clean.  Cool the cake in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn it out
 onto a wire rack to cool completely.
 Cut the cake into two layers, then sandwich together with some of
 the frosting and use the rest to cover the top and sides.
 Chocolate Frosting
 4oz plain chocolate, broken up
 2oz butter
 2 egg yolks
 about 4oz icing sugar, sifted
 Melt the chocolate gently with the butter. Remove from the heat
 and beat in the egg yolks and enough sugar to give a thick, smooth
 spreading consistency. Cool slightly before using.