Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 175g butter, softened
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 2 cups plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup milk
• CHOCOLATE ICING
• 2 cups icing sugar
• 1/4 tsp butter, softened
• 2 tbs milk
• 1/4 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 tbs cocoa powder

Directions

1. Cream butter, sugar and vanilla essence until thick. Add egs one at a time beating eggs after each addition.
2. Sift cocoa, flour, baking powder together. Add to creamed mixture alternately with milk.
3. Pour mixture into a greased and lined 22cm round cake tin. Bake at 180C for 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into center comes out with crumbs attached. When cooked, remove from oven and leave in tin for 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack. When cool, ice with chocolate icing.
4. Chocolate icing
5. Sift icing sugar and cocoa into a bowl. Add remaining ingredients and mix to a spreadable consistency.