Chocolate Madeira Cake With Chocolate Glaze

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 cups plain flour, sifted
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 155 g butter, soft
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 teaspoons vanilla essence
• 2 eggs
• 2/3 cup cocoa, sifted
• 1 1/4 cups milk
• 60 g dark chocolate
• 1 teaspoon copha
• 1 cup icing sugar, sifted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 2 -3 teaspoons water

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180°c; grease and flour a bundt tin.
• 2 sift flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
• 3 in a separate bowl beat butter, sugar and vanilla essence until fluffy.
• 4 add eggs, beating well, then add cocoa.
• 5 add milk alternately with sifted dry ingredients.
• 6 pour cake batter into the tin and bake for 50 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean. leave to cool in tin for 5 minutes and the flip onto cake rack.
• 7 icing glaze.
• 8 stir together icing sugar, vanilla and water to a smooth paste
• 9 spoon over cold cake in drizzle pattern.
• 10 chocolate glaze.
• 11 cut up copha and melt with chocolate. stir well until smooth and drizzle over the cake in alternating drizzle to icing.