Chocolate Cake for …
Well when I did get back to proper cooking, I had to make something chocolaty (that is a word!) for youngest mouse who had been off 
chocolate for the whole of 2009. This recipe came from Jim’s Kitchen. I’ve made a number of different chocolate cake recipes over the years. This recipe struck me as more healthy, (if chocolate cake can be) and very quick and easy. The dry ingredients, dark cocoa, plain flour, castor sugar, bread soda and baking powder were mixed together. The wet ingredients, eggs, sunflower oil and milk were mixed and then honey was mixed in. The wet ingredients were mixed with the dry ingredients, the mixture was put into a lined cake tin and baked for 50 minutes.
The icing was made by heating chocolate and cream. The cake was cut into three layers and each was covered with icing.
For the icing, I used dark chocolate. If, when repeating it for youngest mouse, I will use milk chocolate. Whilst I did weigh all the ingredients, I would probably add a little more honey next time.
This recipe goes into the ‘Definitely repeat category’.
Nyom, nom 