How to Make Chocolate Spice Cake

Spices, chocolate and cake, who could ask for more? This is a delicious, moist chocolate spice cake, with an additional option of adding a light chocolate icing. It is a delicious desert especially when served with coffee or ice cream.

Things You'll Need

• 6-ozs self raising flour
• 4-ozs margarine
• 7-ozs sugar
• 2-ozs plain chocolate
• 2 eggs (whites and yolks separated)
• 8 tblspns milk
• 2 tspns finely shreded candied peel
• 1/2 tspn salt
• 1/2 tspn cinnamon
• 1/2 tspn pudding spice
• 1/4 tspn cloves, ground
• Icing (optional)
• 4-oz margarine
• 3-ozs icing sugar
• 2 tspns cocoa powder
• 1 tbspn hot water
• vanilla essence
• 8 inch cake tin
• palate knife

Instructions

How to Make Chocolate Spice Cake

1. Add 4oz of margarine to 7oz of sugar and cream together in a mixing bowl until they are light and fluffy.

2. Melt the 2ozs chocolate and blend with the 2 egg yolks and add to the mix.

3. Mix the salt and spices to the 6oz of flour and stir in to the mix adding the milk a little at a time.

4. Fold in the beaten egg whites and the candied peel. Pour into a greased cake tin.

5. Bake in the oven at 350F for around 45 minutes.

6. To make the icing, cream the 4ozs margarine, the 3ozs icing sugar and cocoa together in a mixing bowl.

7. Stir in the hot water and a few drops of vanilla essence and beat in.

8. Spread the icing evenly over the cake once it has cooled.

Tips & Warnings

• Add a little extra zing to the icing by replacing the vanilla essence with a few drops of orange essence.

• For a fruity twist, when cooled, slice the cake into two layers and add a can of blackberry filling before icing.