Classic Fudgy Chocolate Cake

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• 200 g bittersweet chocolate
• 250 g unsalted butter

Preheat the oven to 180 C or 356 F. Melt the unsalted butter and dark chocolate in a large bowl.

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• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Stir in the vanilla extract

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• 250 g flour
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 70 g unsweetened cocoa powder
• 235 g sugar

Leave the chocolate mixture to cool whilst you mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and sugar together in a separate bowl.

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• 4 eggs

When the chocolate mixture is room temperate, gradually add the eggs until they are well stirred in.

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Gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, the mixture should resemble a thick-ish paste.

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Pour the cake batter into two greased cake tins and bake for half an hour.

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Poke a skewer or thin knife into the centre of one of the cakes to check if it is ready. If it comes out with mixture on put them back in for 7 mins. If it comes out clean then remove them from their tins and leave to cool.

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• 150 g butter
• 150 g confectioner’s sugar
• 40 g Dutch-process cocoa powder
• 1 tbsp water

While the cake is cooling make the icing: combine the water, icing sugar, butter and cocoa powder in a bowl and blend into a paste.

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When the cakes have cooled spread half the icing on top of each cake. Place them on top of each other and add any decoration that you want.