Decadent Devils Food Cake

This is a delicious decadent devils food cake recipe. Absolutely perfect for a dinner party or any other occasion.

The Ingredients:
Cake:
60g Coco Powder
110g Dark Sugar
220g Plain Flour
250ml of boiling water
120g Butter
150g Caster Sugar
2 Eggs
0.5tsp Baking Powder
0.5tsp Bicarbonate Soda
2tsp Vanilla Extract/Essence

Filling and Topping:
120ml Water
40g Dark Brown Sugar
180g Butter
320g Milk or Dark Chocolate

The How-To:
Preheat oven to 180c
Sieve the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate soda together in a large bowl
In a separate bowl mix the boiling water, coco powder and dark brown sugar until everything dissolves.
In another bowl, cream the butter and caster sugar together, blend in the vanilla.
Whisk in the eggs

Slowly fold the flour mixture into this bowl.
Mix in the coco and water mix.
Pour into two lined cake tins
Bake in the centre of the oven for 27 mins or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Leave to cool and turn out onto a cooling rack.
While this is cooling we need to make the filling and topping.
In a saucepan add the water, sugar and butter and heat until dissolved, bring to the boil briefly.
Remove from the heat and slowly stir the broken up chocolate into the mix.
Stir until smooth. Place in the fridge and cool for aprox 1hr
Place 1/3 of the topping/filling in between the two layers and the rest on top and around the edges.

You’re Done!