Rainy Day Chocolate Flake Cake

Hi all!

As the weather from summer, to autumn, to the rain (lets be honest we don't really have a proper autumn or winter in the UK) we need our home comforts to keep us going when the weather brings us down! Therefore cake is the answer (it's the answer when its sunny too but who cares!). In particular chocolate cake! The cake I made a few weeks ago was so light and chocolatey! 

So a quick, simple and tasty recipe is in order.

Ingredients:

Cake:

• 225g butter
• 225g caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 175g self raising flour
• 50g cocoa powder

Icing:

• 175g icing sugar
• 75g butter
• 45g cocoa powder
• 10ml milk

Method: 

1. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.

2. Add the eggs one at a time and combine.

3. Sift the flour and cocoa powder together into the mixture and fold to create lots of air, this will ensure that you have a light and fluffy cake!

4. Separate the mixture into 2x 20cm round tins that have been greased and lined with baking paper.

5. Bake at 180C for 25 minutes or until golden brown and the mixture springs back when lightly pressed.

To make the icing:

1. Cream the butter until smooth.

2. Add the icing sugar and combine.

3. Add the cocoa powder.

4. Add the milk, only add to the consistency you want. The less milk added the stiffer and harder to spread on your cake the icing will be. Don't add more than the 10ml.

Decorate however you wish. I added half the buttercream to the top of one of the sponges then laid the other sponge on top. I then added the remaining buttercream and crumbled up some flakes we had left over onto the top of the cake for decoration.

So that was my simple chocolate cake for a rainy day, which seems to be most days at the moment in the UK! Let me know if you make this cake and I hope you enjoyed reading!

Thanks for reading,

Caitlin xxx