Sunday, 15 August 2010

Emergency Cake!

Got home from work and disaster! No chocolate or pudding in the house!  Time for a rummage through the cupboards and some emergency planning.

The answer- the emergency sponge cake!

Ingredients
175g  Self raising flour
175g  Soft brown sugar
175g  Margarine
2 tbs  Cocoa
3 medium Free range eggs

Method
Preheat oven to 190 deg C
Cream together the sugar and margarine
Beat the three eggs
SLOWLY add the eggs to the mixture, stirring constatntly
Add the flour and cocoa and fold in
Grease two 20cm (8 in) cake tins
Spoon the mixture equally between the cake tins
Cook for 20 mins
Turn out and leave to cool

Emergency Icing (use buttercream icing if you can)
Ingredients
1 tbs brown sugar
1 tbs margarine
2 tsp Cocoa

Method
Mix all the ingredients together until it looks something like mud or icing!
Spread thinly on the cooled down cake and sandwich together

Tasted quite good for an emergency!!!

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