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How to Make Chocolate Spice Cake

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By Corinna Underwood
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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.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions

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

    How to Make Chocolate Spice Cake

  1. Step 1

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

  2. Step 2

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

  3. Step 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. Step 4

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

  5. Step 5

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

  6. Step 6

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

  7. Step 7

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

  8. Step 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.

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