Mum's chocolate cake
A little different to a normal sponge cake as it uses oil rather than butter - but deep and chocolatey and improves with age...if it lasts that long! I've left the recipe in the original, imperial units as first handed down to me. The bake time was originally 40 minutes, but this is now likely to cook in 30 minutes or less with a modern fan-assisted oven.
Ingredients
Wet ingredients
5 floz milk
5 floz vegetable oil
1 tbsp Golden Syrup
1 tbsp Black Treacle
2 eggs
5oz sugar
Dry ingredients
2 tbsp cocoa powder
7 oz self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Method
Preheat the oven to gas mark 3
Grease 2 sandwich tins with a little butter and then a dusting of cocoa powder
Mix together the wet ingredients and the sugar in a large mixing bowl with a handheld mixer
Sift in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda.
Gently mix together.
Separate the mixture between the tins and bake in the oven for 30 minutes or until cooked through.