Chocolate Fudge Loaf Cake:
My second cake of the week, and to help bring in the weekend, had to be chocolate! I'll admit to being pretty anxious about baking with chocolate, it's never gone well in the past, but there's only one way to get good at anything.
This recipe comes from my mother, who got it from her mother - and before that? who knows! My gran owned her own little café for travellers and truckers alike back in the day, and there's many a recipe us grandchildren will need to look after!
So, pre-heat your oven to Gas Mark 4 (350F or 180c,) and line yourself a medium loaf tin this time.
Ingredients:
175g self-raising flour
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
150g caster sugar
2 large eggs
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
100 ml milk
50ml water
1 tablespoon golden syrup
Method:
Sieve the flour, cocoa powder and bicarbonate of soda into a large mixing bowl. Add the sugar and mix well by hand. Making a well in the centre of the mixture, add the syrup, the eggs (beaten,) oil, milk and water. Beat well with electric whisk until mixture is smooth and light.
Fold mixture into lined loaf tin and bake for 30-35 minutes until mixture has risen and is firm to the touch.
Always check with skewer or thin knife that mixture is cooked all the way through by inserting into the centre of the cake and withdrawing. If blade is clean and hot, the mixture is ready.
Leave cake to cool in the tin before turning out onto wire rack.
Try and not nibble at it, I know it's hard!
Having strawberries and cream left over from Monday night, I served the chocolate cake with one dollop of whipped up cream and a few sliced strawberries to take make desert lighter and easier to digest!
Enjoy the remnants of this cake. I took more than half of it into work with me at the weekend and shared it out. Yum!
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