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    Basic recipe: Tray bake

    22 July 2014

    Makes: 20 squares
    Preparation time: 15 minutes
    Baking time: 30-35 minutes
    Oven temperature: 180°C

    • 235ml (75g) cocoa powder
    • 3ml bicarbonate of soda
    • 4 large eggs
    • 425ml (370g) light-brown sugar
    • 180ml sunflower oil
    • 370ml (200g) self-raising flour

    Icing
    • 270ml (250g) butter or margarine
    • 850ml (450g) icing sugar, sifted
    • 150ml (50g) cocoa powder, sifted
    • 30-50ml milk

    1 Beat the cocoa with 200ml boiling water. Whisk in the bicarbonate of soda and then set aside to cool for 10 minutes.

    2 Beat the eggs, sugar and oil together, then stir in the flour and the cocoa mixture.

    3 Pour into a lined 23 x 30cm tin and bake in a preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool then remove from the tin and ice.

    4 Icing Beat the butter until creamy. Add the icing sugar, cocoa and a little milk. Beat well until creamy and a spreading consistency. Spread over the cake. Cut into squares.

    Text and image: Ideas magazine

     

     

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