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Chelsea's Favourite Chocolate Cake

Name: Chelsea's Favourite Chocolate Cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp instant coffee granules; ¾ cup water; 2 cups Chelsea White Sugar; 1¾ cups Edmonds Standard Grade Flour; ¾ cup cocoa powder; 2 tsp vanilla essence; 2 tsp Edmonds Baking Soda; 1 tsp Edmonds Baking Powder; ½ tsp salt; 2 eggs; 1¼ cups Meadow Fresh Milk (or Rice/Soya Milk); ½ cup sunflower or soya oil; Icing Ingredients; 1½ cups Chelsea Icing Sugar (225g); 2 Tbsp cocoa powder; 50g butter, softened; 2-3 Tbsp hot water

4.6

Preparation

10 mins

Bake

1 hours 20 mins

Difficulty

Easy

Servings

NZ's favourite chocolate cake recipe. Unbelievably easy - throw all of the ingredients together and bake. We love this one, try it today.

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Ingredients
Method

Ingredients

1 Tbsp instant coffee granules
¾ cup water
2 cups Chelsea White Sugar
1¾ cups Edmonds Standard Grade Flour
¾ cup cocoa powder
2 tsp vanilla essence
2 tsp Edmonds Baking Soda
1 tsp Edmonds Baking Powder
½ tsp salt
2 eggs
1¼ cups Meadow Fresh Milk (or Rice/Soya Milk)
½ cup sunflower or soya oil

Icing Ingredients

1½ cups Chelsea Icing Sugar (225g)
2 Tbsp cocoa powder
50g butter, softened
2-3 Tbsp hot water

Chelsea Products in Recipe

White Sugar

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Amber Mitchem

It was really easy to make and tasted delicious! So lovely and moist, only had to bake in the oven for 50 minutes

1473452600

This chocolate cake is irresistibly good...so moist and decadent..turn out amazing..loved it..:)

can i use vegie oil?CHELSEA SUGAR: Hi there, yes that will be fine.

Diane

No this chocolate cake did not work for me, nice and moist but did not taste that nice. shame because was looking forward to it but it didn't work.

Anonymous

Hi chelsea,I made this cake for my mums birthday yesterday. She doesn't like a lot of sugar in her cakes so I reduced the amount by half. To my surprise, it didn't rise and was super dense! Not sure where I went wrong.CHELSEA SUGAR: Hi there, reducing the sugar by that much can have a significant effect on the final texture and rise of the cake. For best results, we recommend following the recipe as written.

1579337305

My 9 yr old daughter and I made this tonight. Easy to make, really moist and delicious. Bit of breakage on the top but the icing covered it up and was yum.

Amy

Sensational cake that pleases all who eat it.

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C (reduce to 160 for fan forced).

Grease and line a 23-25cm cake tin with baking paper.

Dissolve the coffee granules in water, then place all ingredients into a food processor and process until well combined and smooth.

Pour the mixture into the cake tin. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour 20 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.

Cool on a wire rack and when completely cold.

Icing Method

Place Chelsea Icing Sugar and cocoa powder in a medium bowl and stir to combine.

Add softened butter and pour some of the hot water over the top.

Mix together, adding more water as required to achieve a smooth, spreadable consistency.

Spread over the top of the cooled cake.

Note: This is a very runny mixture - don't be alarmed the first time you make it.