My Family Favourite Chocolate Cake

A super light and fluffy chocolate sponge cake.

• Ready In: 55 mins
• Serves: 8
• Yields: 8 decent slices

Ingredients

• 8  ounces self raising flour
• 8  ounces margarine or 8  ounces butter
• 8  ounces sugar (I always reduce the sugar to around 6oz as I don't like things TOO sweet)
• 3  medium eggs
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 3  tablespoons  cadburys cocoa powder
•  approx. 200ml water

Directions

1. Cream the margarine and the sugar until light and fluffy. I personally prefer to lessen the amount of sugar as I don't like things overly sweet but 80z is the original recipe.
2. Whisk the eggs into the sugar/margarine mixture.
3. Slowly add the flour, baking powder and cocoa. Sieve these to avoid lumps (especially in the cocoa).
4. Stir in a figure of 8 fashion. Gradually add enough water to loosen the cake mix up a bit. It should be the consistency of a slightly thin custard.
5. Pour into a non stick cake tin, preferably with loose bottom. I use an 8'' round tin for this cake.
6. Bake on a middle/top shelf in the oven at 180 c for around 45 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.
7. Remove from tin and cool on wire rack. Once cooled, top with chocolate icing, frosting etc or dust with icing sugar and cocoa powder.