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Easy Chocolate Cake with Old Fashioned Fudge Sauce

Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time35 minutes
Cooling Time30 minutes
Total Time1 hour 25 minutes

Equipment

  • Stand Mixer or Hand Mixer

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 cup self raising flour
  • 1 cup caster sugar
  • 3 tbsp cocoa
  • 90 grams butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Fudge Sauce

  • 1 cup caster sugar
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 1 tbsp cocoa
  • 2 tbsp cornflour blended with 1 tbsp cold water to form a liquid

Instructions

Cake

  • Preheat oven to 170°C (fan forced);
  • Grease and line your 20cm round cake tin;
  • Combine all ingredients in your mixer and beat on high for 3 minutes;
  • Pour in to your tin and bake for 35 minutes. Test your cake at the 30 minute mark as different ovens may cook faster;
  • Cool cake and then pour over chocolate fudge sauce and let set.

Fudge Sauce

  • Place sugar, water, butter and cocoa in a small saucepan. Bring to the boil while stirring to dissolve the sugar.
  • Whisk in cornflour mix and whisk over medium/high heat until mixture comes to the boil and sauce thickens. You want the sauce to be thick but still pourable.
  • Pour slowly over cake to required thickness.

Notes

  1. To make the cake extra moist you can poke holes in the top of the cake so the fudge is absorbed in to the centre of the cake.  I usually use a chopstick for this;
  2. If you have leftover fudge sauce you can keep it in the fridge for three days.  You can heat the sauce in the microwave for 20-30 seconds on high and then pour over ice cream, delicious!!!
  3. If you don't have caster sugar you can substitute regular sugar in this recipe.