easy fast dinner recipe

Easy Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

170g salted butter
170g golden caster sugar
4 eggs, beaten
125g self-raising flour
50g cocoa powder, preferably the best you can get

250g milk chocolate, we used Lindt
50g butter
125ml milk

2 greased and lined 22cm shallow cake tins


Method

• Beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, user a mixer if possible or you will have cranky children!
• Add the eggs slowly, a bit at a time until all well combined.  Sift the flour and cocoa in and fold through gently.
• Put half of your mixture in each tin and spread mixture out lightly.
• Bake at 180C for 20-25 minutes until the top of the cake springs back when gently pressed.

• While the cake is baking, make your cheat's ganache-type frosting by melting the chocolate, butter and milk in a bowl over a pan of simmering water.
• As soon as the butter and chocolate are melting, turn the heat off and stir well to get a slippery, glossy mixture.
• Put the mixture in the fridge to cool down, giving it an occasional stir to stop any grittiness setting in.

• Cool the cake  on a wire rack, then give the icing a quick whisk to fluff it up.
• Spread some of it over the bottom cake and sandwich the two halves together.  Spread the rest over the tops and sides of the cake.
• Decorate with chocolate buttons, Mini Eggs, broken up Creme Eggs, Smarties, smashed up Crunchie bars, crumbled Flake bars*, whatever takes your fancy really.  Serve with a lovely cup of tea!

Source : http://www.attachmentmummy.com/2015/03/recipe-easy-chocolate-cake.html