As simple as it gets / Chocolate cake

Whether you celebrate valentine or not you might just fancy a simple easy to bake chocolate cake. Treat yourself or someone you love. Here’s the recipe that my family have used for ages:

Ingredients

5x eggs
250 g sugar
160 g flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 dl water
400 g butter
1.5 dl cocoa powder
200 g icing sugar

How to

Turn the oven on to 180 degrees
Whip 3 eggs and 250g sugar until it’s fluffy
Mix 160g flour, 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla sugar and 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
Melt 200g butter and mix with 1 1/2 ml of water
Pour into a mold. Place in the center of the oven.
Bake for 45 minutes (keep checking – I usually take it out of the oven a couple of minutes before the timers off)
Mix 250g butter, 200g icing sugar, 1 cup cocoa powder (depends how much chocolate flavour you want) and 2 eggs. Whip well. This is for the topping.
Take the cake out of the oven and leave it to cool down
Place the mixture on the cake and serve
ENJOY