Chocolate and Vanilla Cake

My inability to follow recipes strikes again. Having promised to bake something for the girls this evening I had my mind set on making Tana Ramsey's lemon Drizzle cake. This went slightly wrong when I realised that I didn't have enough caster sugar and for some reason, in my head, soft brown sugar in a lemon drizzle cake is just a little bit too left field so the chocolate and vanilla loaf cake has been born. I'm not sure quite how the evolutionary process took place but it is a very nice experiment and I hope you enjoy it as much as the girls did.

225g soft brown sugar

225g butter

4 eggs

200g self raising flower

30g cocoa powder

1 tsp vanilla extract.

for the frosting:

50g butter

150g chocolate

2 tbsp sour cream

1 tsp vanilla

Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/ 180C.

• Mix together the butter and sugar until creamy.
• Add the vanilla essence and the eggs 1 at a time, mixing well after adding each egg.
• sift in the flour and cocoa powder and fold into the mixture.
• put mixture into a greased loaf tin and place in the top of the oven for 1 hour 15 minutes.
• once its ready, take out of the oven and turn out onto a wire rack and leave to cool.

 To make the frosting:

Melt the butter and chocolate together.

Add the vanilla extract and the sour cream and mix well.

Spread over the top of the cake.

Happy Eating.