Delicious, juicy and easy, this rich chocolate raisin cake is the perfect addition to your child's lunchbox and off course perfect to pack and take to work or on a picnic.
Ingredients:
- 125 grams Butter (Room Temp)
- 1 1/2 cups Self Raising Flour
- 1/4 cup Cocoa Powder
- 1/4 cup Raisins
- 1 cup Caster Sugar
- 2 Eggs Lightly beaten
- 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- 1/2cup Warm Water
- A pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup Fresh Cream
- 1cup Icing sugar
- 100gms Cadbury Milk Melts
- 1 teaspoon Cocoa powder
For Frosting:
- Place cadbury milk melts in a saucepan and gently heat, stirring occasionally, until melted and smooth. Keep aside and cool slightly.
- In a bowl combine the melted chocolate, fresh cream, icing sugar and cocoa powder. Mix well and keep in the refrigerator.
For Cake:
- In a large bowl combine self raising flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt and mix well.
- In a another bowl whisk together butter, caster sugar and eggs. Add water simultaneously and whisk it until sugar gets dissolved.
- Pour wet ingredients over dry ingredients. Stir until combined. Add raisins and mix well.
- Pour the mixture into a greased and base-lined 20cm cake pan. Bake in a moderate oven 180°C for 40 minutes or until cooked. Cool for 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- Spread frosting over the cooled cake and decorate as desired.
4 comments:
This is one delicious looking cake!! I would love to include it in May's food fight. Come submit it to: http://willcookforsmiles.com/2013/04/submit-your-cakes-and-cheesecakes.html
Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts. Any way I'll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon.
I am uninformed as to what caster sugar is. Comp. to granulated sugar perhaps?
Looks delicious! Found your site from another blog, glad I did, thank you for the recipe!
Michael :-)
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