Grandma’s Chocolate Cake

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Grandma’s Chocolate Cake

A golden oldie from a golden oldie.

Ingredients

• 125 g butter (melted)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 tbsp cocoa
• 1 cup self raising flour
• 2 eggs
• a good dash of vanilla

Instructions

1. Pop everything in mixer and beat the pour the butter in while it's going. Beat for about 3 min. Pour into a 22cm (ish) cake tin and bake at 180 until a skewer comes out clean.

The Ramblings:

On New Years Day my Grandma died. Having started a new job and unable to get home for her funeral, I decided to send her off in my own way, making her choccie cake.

When I was at boarding school she would send me my favourite tin filled with homemade goodies. As soon as I finished it, I’d post it back and it would ‘magically’ reappear full again.

The choccie cake I made that day was the first of ‘Jeffs tin’. Jeff is our beautiful bore runner that I have a ‘magic pudding tin’ deal with. Everyone grieves differently but as much as I wish I had been there, I’m so glad I started this tradition instead. The happiness it brings and shares is exactly how Grandma would have wanted it. Who says food isn’t good therapy?

I really treasure my recipes and the enduring love they hold and can pass on.