Chocolate Apple Cake

A fine Chocolate Apple Cake. This chocolate cake recipe combines the use of chocolate and apple to make a wonderful cake for you to enjoy.

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Ingredients

250g Plain flour
25g Cocoa
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
100g Butter, softened
250g Caster sugar
2 Eggs
A Few drops of vanilla essence
175 ml Milk
2 Cooking apples, peeled, cored and finely chopped

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4.  Grease a 20cm square cake tin. Line base and sides with greaseproof paper and also grease the paper.

Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl and set aside.

Put the butter and sugar in a bowl and beat with an electric whisk until light and fluffy.  Whisk in the eggs, one at a time.  Add the vanilla essence.

Whisk a little of the flour mixture and milk alternately into the egg mixture, mixing well after each addition.  Mix in the chopped apples.

Spoon the cake mixture into the prepared tin and smooth the surface.  Bake for 45 – 50 mins, or until a skewer inserted in to the centre of the cake comes out clean.

Leave for 5 mins, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. 

Icing

Ingredients

450g Icing sugar, sifted
25g Cocoa
50g Butter, softened
90 ml  Milk

Method

Put all the ingredients into a bowl and beat with an electric whisk on low speed until creamy and smooth.  Spread onto the top and sides of the cake.