Orietta's Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

250ml water

• 200g caster sugar
• 150g margarine or butter
• 2 tblspns cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 2 eggs
• 175g self-raising flour

• Directions

  
  

  1. Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4.

  1. Grease and flour a casserole or pyrex dish (28x18cm or 23x23cm.) This is the final presentation dish you can cut and serve from: no need to turn the cake out onto a platter.

  1. Place first 5 ingredients into a saucepan and heat on medium. Stir well and simmer for 5 minutes. Pour into a mixing bowl and cool.

  1. Mix in 2 eggs and flour.

  1. Pour mixture into prepared pyrex dish. Bake at 180 C for 40 - 45 minutes.

  1. Remove when done and cool. Cover with chocolate icing and sprinkles or a simple dusting of icing sugar.