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Saturday Sweets may have returned. Then again, they may not have. I know you were all desperate for them ;) And it’s not as if I have anything better to do today, like revise for my exam that’s in 3.75hours…

Chocolate Cake

Relatively nice; a bit dry perhaps. The different types of icing combine to make it interesting. Easy to eat with your fingers.

Base:

115g marge

1 tbsp syrup

140g self raising flour

2 eggs, beaten

115g sugar

Few drops vanilla essence

30g cocoa

Little milk to mix

1. Cream together marge, sugar, syrup and vanilla essence until soft and light
2. Mix together dry ingredients  
3. Stir chocolate mixture and beaten eggs alternatively into marge, with just enough milk to give it a soft consistency  
4. Grease and flour 2 sandwich tins and fill with mixture  
5. Bake at Gas Mark 5 for 25 minutes  

Chocolate Butter Icing (middle):

110g butter

200g icing sugar

2 heaped dstsp chocolate powder

Few drops vanilla essence

1. Cream butter until very soft 
2. Work in sugar and flavouring   

Chocolate Glaze (top):

225g icing sugar

1 heaped dstspn cocoa

1.5 dstspns warm water

Acorn-sized knob of butter

1. Add water gradually to icing sugar
2. Add cocoa and beat in butter

As an alternative, you could try Fudgy Chocolate Cake, or Black Magic Cake

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