cocoa cake.

For Easter I decided to make a tasty chocolate cake but didn't want the typical heavy chocolate cake made with chocolate, so I switched it up and tried to make a cake with cocoa powder. This is probably one of my favourite chocolate cake recipes. It's even better when it's been in the fridge as the cake becomes almost like a brownie.

P.S: I decorated the cake with the top of the Easter eggs from my cheesecake easter eggs.

This recipe makes about 8-10 servings.

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cups plain flour
• ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1¼ teaspoon baking soda
• ¾ teaspoon salt
• 1½ sticks unsalted butter, softened
• 1¾ cups packed brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1⅓ cups water
• Icing sugar, for dusting

METHOD: 

1. Preheat oven to 180˚C.
2. Butter round cake pan - mine had a diameter of 25cm.
3. Whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl.
4. Beat together butter and brown sugar with electric mixer until pale and fluffy in large mixing bowl.
5. Add eggs in 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
6. Then beat in vanilla.
7. Add flour mixture and water in batches, beginning and ending with flour and mixing until well combined.
8. Pour batter into cake pan and bake until springy to touch and skewer comes out clean - about 45minutes.
9. Cool in pan for an hour before dusting with icing sugar.
10. VOILA! The perfect chocolate cake! 

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