Chris’s chocolate birthday cake. Join Chris Morocco in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as he makes easy chocolate cake. If you've got a bowl, a cheap hand mixer, and a couple of measuring cups. Chris Lopez crazy big heaping pieces of cake split for us.

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Ingredients of Chris’s chocolate birthday cake

You need 225 g of caster sugar.
You need 225 g of softened butter.
You need 100 g of self-raising flour.
Prepare 4 of large eggs.
You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
Prepare 2 tsp of cocoa powder.
Prepare 50 ml of semi-skimmed milk.
You need of For the icing.
It's 250 g of dark chocolate.
Prepare 250 g of softened butter.
It's 175 g of icing sugar.
It's 3 of tubes of Smarties.
It's 2 tablespoons of jam.

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Chris’s chocolate birthday cake guidelines

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
Grease 2 x 20cm cake tins and line with greaseproof paper.
In a bowl beat the sugar and butter with an electric whisk until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs, one at a time, besting after each addition. Add the flour, baking powder and cocoa and mix..
Add a little milk until the mixture drops easily off a spoon.
Put half in each tin and bake for 20 minutes until skewer inserted into centre comes out clean then leave to cool for 10 mins before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of simmering water..
In a bowl beat the butter and icing sugar then add the chocolate..
Spread some of the icing on top of one cake together with some jam.
Put the other cake on top, add the rest of the icing over the top and sides.
Add Smarties to decorate. Enjoy!.

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