Wholemeal Chocolate Cake
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
10 slices
- Serves:
- 10
ingredients
- 1⁄4 cup cocoa
- 1⁄4 cup boiling water
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 125 g butter
- 3⁄4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3⁄4 cup brown flour, wholemeal
- 3⁄4 cup flour, white standard
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 tablespoons milk
- icing sugar, to dust
directions
- Dissolve cocoa in boiling water. Mix to a smooth paste. Add vanilla and allow to cool.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add cocoa mixture. Beat eggs in one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Sift wholemeal flour, standard flour and baking powder together. Return husks from sieve back into the sifted flour. Fold sifted ingredients into creamed mixture.
- Stir in milk.
- Spoon mixture into a greased and lined 20cm round cake tin.
- Bake at 180 degrees C for 40 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched.
- Leave in tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.
- When cold, dust with icing sugar.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Kiwi Kathy
New Zealand
Based in Whangarei NZ. My favourite recipe book is by a two NZers, Alison and Simon Holst Meals without Meat. This book is my all time stand by for healthy inexpensive meals. I wouldn't be without it. I love cooking and look forward to preparing meals each evening.