Chocolate Cake Dripping With Chocolate Sauce

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 8 ounces butter, completely melted
• 8 ounces caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 6 ounces self-raising flour
• 2 ounces cocoa powder
• 4 tablespoons strawberry jam
• 1 tablespoon boiling water
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
• 4 tablespoons golden syrup
• 1 tablespoon icing sugar

Recipe

• 1 cream the butter and caster sugar until and fluffy.
• 2 beat each egg individually into the mix.
• 3 stir in the vanilla extract.
• 4 sieve the flour and cocoa powder together and fold in gently.
• 5 line two 9" cake tins with greaseproof paper and evenly pour the mixture into both.
• 6 pre heat the oven to gas mark 5/190°c/375°f and cook for 25 minutes.
• 7 turn the tins after 15 minutes so that the cakes rise evenly.
• 8 cool on a wire rack.
• 9 for the sauce mix the boiling water and cocoa powder together in a saucepan.
• 10 add the golden syrup and icing sugar.
• 11 bring to the boil stirring so as not to burn the sugar.
• 12 allow to cool, it will thicken as it cools.
• 13 cover one cake sandwich with the strawberry jam and place the other on top.
• 14 cover with the chocolate sauce.