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Chocolate Cake with Coloured Chocolate Beans

Chocolate Cake with Coloured Chocolate Beans

Recipe Submitted By: bakingmad

This Chocolate Cake with Coloured Chocolate Beans is perfect for a birthday cake or party!

Preparation Time	25 minutes
Baking Time	40 minutes
Portions	For 1 cake
Skill Level	Easy
Average Rating

Chocolate Cake with Coloured Chocolate Beans Ingredients

75 grams	Cocoa Powder
200 ml	Water boiling
3 tsp	Bicarbonate Of Soda
4	Free Range Eggs
370 grams	Dark Muscovado Sugar (Billington's)
180 ml	Sunflower Oil
1 tsp	Vanilla Extract (Nielsen-Massey)
275 grams	Self Raising White Flour (Allinson Nature Friendly)

Additional Ingredients

For the Icing/Decoration:

2 tbsp	Cocoa Powder
50 grams	Butter
2 tbsp	Golden Syrup (Silver Spoon)
300 grams	Unrefined Golden Icing Sugar (Billington's)
	Sprinkle Decorations
	coloured choco beans

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How to make Chocolate Cake with Coloured Chocolate Beans

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For the cake: heat the oven to 180°C, 350°F, gas 4. Grease and line a 23cm x 30cm|9\" x 12\" baking tin.
Mix the cocoa with the boiling water. Stir in the bicarbonate of soda and set aside to cool.
Whisk the eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla in a mixing bowl until blended. Stir in the flour and the cocoa mixutre until smooth.
Pour into the tin and bake for 30-40 minutes until risen and firm to the touch. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
For the icing. Melt the butter and golden syrup together with 1 tbsp water,. Beat in the icing sugar, to make a smooth icing. Add a little extra boiling water if needed. Spread over the cool cake.
Scatter with the sprinkles and chocolate beans and leave to set.

Reviews

Read all reviews (3) | Average rating: 5 stars

"Really good!! Very dark moist tray bake chocolate cake. Far outshines the shop bought version. Just a word of warning - when you add the bicarb to the hot chocolate mix it erupts!! So use a very large container."

16-07-2011 | Author: hlw1810 | 5 stars

"mmmm yummy chocolate cake i once made an even yummier chocolate celebration cake for my bd and it turned out fab i loved itt ,mmmm i want some noww so lets get bakingg"

23-03-2013 | Author: tayyibah | 5 stars

"This is an absolutely deliciously moist chocolate cake, I've made it hundreds of times, for birthdays, for school cake sales, I've made muffins from it too, added choc chips, it's the easiest and best chocolate cake by far - we can't find any other chocolate cake that is better!!"

15-05-2013 | Author: crazycaterpillar | 5 stars

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