Dishing Delicious

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Dishing Delicious

So your mother-in-law is coming by in an hour and you’re trying to impress her with a delicious home-made chocolate cake but then you realise that you don’t really have the time to make the 3 tier Chocolate Nut Cake that takes a lot of skill and 2 hours to make so why not whip up the 30 Minute Chocolate Cake in half an hour or less! Mix the ingredients for this chocolate cake recipe all in one saucepan and bake for only 20 minutes while you make the delicious chocolate and nut frosting.

Ingredients

  • For Cake:
  • 1 cup butter or margarine
  • 4 tablespoons cocoa
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • For Frosting:
  • 1/2 cup butter or margarine
  • 4 tablespoons cocoa
  • 6 tablespoons milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup nuts, chopped
  • 450g confectioner’s sugar

Instructions

For the Cake:

  1. Preheat oven to 204 degrees Celsius.
     
  2. In saucepan, melt margarine with the cocoa and water, bring to boil.
     
  3. Remove from heat and add the sugar, flour, baking soda, eggs, salt and vanilla.
     
  4. Mix and pour into greased 13x9x2 inch sheet pan. Bake at 204 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes.

For the Frosting:

  1. About 5 minutes before cake is done, make the frosting by combining the margarine, cocoa, milk, vanilla, and nuts in a saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil.
     
  2. Remove from heat and add confectioner’s sugar.
     
  3. Spread over HOT cake as soon as it is removed from oven. Let cool before serving.

 

That’s it! You don’t have to cream anything and you don’t have to stand there for 2 hours hoping and praying it won’t flop and best of all you don’t have to be Nigella or Eric Lanlard to create this mouth-watering master-piece. It is so simple there should be a law against it. Just be sure it has cooked through by taking a fork, a cocktail stick, a skewer or a toothpick. Use one of these items to poke the top of the cake slightly in the middle. If it comes up with some wet batter, crumbs or stickiness on it, the cake needs to bake some more. If it is dry, then the cake is done.

Now that the cake is done, it’s time to wash all those dishes and if you’re just like me and you hate doing them yourself, why not get a dishwasher from Catercare, and let it do all the dirty work whilst you relax on the couch with a nice glass of red wine.