Chocolate Cake with Palm Oil
Ingredients:
• 1 cup sugar – preferably soft brown
• 1/3 cup semi – solid palm oil
• 2 Tbs smooth mixed fruit jam
• 3 large eggs at room temperature
• 1 Tbs instant coffee granules
• 1 cup hot water
• 2 cups self raising flour
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 3 level Tbs cocoa powder
• Butter icing as required to sandwich the cake
Method
Preheat oven to 180 ˚C. Line and grease 2 x 20 cm round cake pans. Place sugar in mixer and beat in oil and jam until creamy. Beat in one egg at a time until mixture is fluffy, stir coffee into the hot water – leave aside. Sift dry ingredients together and stir into creamy mixture with coffee until batter is smooth. Divide batter into the baking pans, bake for 25 -30 minutes. Remove from oven and leave to cool in pans. Sandwich and frost as needed.
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