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Big Bake Cake, White, and Chocolate Cake also ideal for cupcakes
Big Bake Cake
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cooling Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Yield: 1 Sheet Pan – 18 portions 1x
- Category: Cake, Cookies and Tarts, Cupcakes
Description
Big Bake Chocolate Cake is also ideal for cupcakes. This cake remains moist, keeps very well, and makes a large quantity for a rainy day!
Ingredients
- 450g self-raising flour
- 420g castor sugar
- 2 ml of salt
- 250g butter or margarine
- 250 ml of water
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 125 ml buttermilk
- 5 ml bicarbonate soda
- 5 ml vanilla essence
- 30g cocoa
Instructions
- Sift flour, castor sugar, and salt.
- Heat butter and water over low heat until the butter has melted.
- Remove from heat, stir in flour mixture, beat in eggs.
- Mix buttermilk, bicarbonate of soda, and essence.
- Add to flour mixture.
- Divide dough into two equal portions.
- Add cocoa to one part and stir well to blend.
- Pour both portions (separately)into a large, greased roasting pan.
- Draw a skewer through the batter to form a pattern.
- Bake at 180C/350F for 30-40 min or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Decoration for this awesome Big Bake Cake:
- Once cold melt chocolate in the microwave and spread melted chocolate over the top.
- OR use mocha icing
- Decorate the top with grated chocolate or flake.
Notes
Prepared, tried, and tested Rashida Habib
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It seems a perfect base for a delicious birthday party cake!
Hi Silvia – yes that will work perfectly and with the marble effect something different.
Looks divine!
Thank you so much – super easy and yes very yummy. Hope you will have time to test it out
Another amazing recipe, yes my kids would love this, I really need to start baking..
Marian, yes it’s always a balance, but once in a while a treat is called for.