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This has to be the easiest chocolate sponge cake recipe, ideal for a last-minute birthday cake for a chocolate lover.

Try our chocolate sponge cake, then also check out more indulgent chocolate cake recipes such as our ultimate chocolate fudge cake, chocolate birthday cake, moist chocolate cake and chocolate drip cake. No time to bake? Try our speedy yet indulgent chocolate mug cake. Or, for a lighter take on this classic treat, make our healthy chocolate cake.

Recipe tip: You don't need to use a chocolate with a high cocoa percentage for this, just standard dark chocolate is fine

Follow our video for how to make the chocolate cake mix and bake the sponges for a perfect result:

How to make chocolate cake

Ingredients

  • 150g self-raising flour
  • 30g cocoa
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 175g muscovado sugar
  • 175g butter, softened
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 50g dark chocolate, melted

FUDGE ICING

  • 200g butter, softened
  • 200g icing sugar
  • 200g dark chocolate, melted

Method

  • STEP 1

    Heat the oven to 180C/fan 170C/gas 4. Line and butter 2 x 20cm sandwich tins.

  • STEP 2

    Put all cake ingredients into the food processor and whizz until smooth. If the mix is a little stiff, add 1-2 tbsp water and whizz again.

  • STEP 3

    Divide between tins, level and bake for 20 minutes or until springy. Leave for 5 minutes then cool on a rack.

  • STEP 4

    Clean the food processor. Whizz the butter and icing sugar, add the chocolate, whizz again, then sandwich and ice the cake.

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