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For the cake

  • 170g butter, softened
  • 340g caster sugar
  • 3 tsps vanilla essence
  • 3 eggs , lightly beaten
  • 170g self-raising flour
  • 55g plain flour
  • 3 tbsps cocoa powder
  • 11 floz milk

    Method

    • step 1

      Place butter, sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl and beat until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs.
    • step 2

      Sift together the flours and cocoa powder. Fold the flour mixture and the milk, alternately, into the butter mixture.
    • step 3

      Pour the mixture into a greased and lined 22cm square cake tin and bake for 55 minutes or until the cake is cooked when tested with a skewer at oven temperatures 190C, 375f, gas 5.Stand the cake in the tin for 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.
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