Chocolate Cake

Preparation Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 45-60 minutes

Serves: 8

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ cup Waltanna Foods Gluten Free Plain Flour
• ¾ cup cocoa powder
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• 1 ½ tsp baking soda
• 2 ½ cups white sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 ¼ cup oat milk
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup boiling water

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180°C (Conventional)/ 160°C (Fan).
• Grease 2 cake pans with butter, then line the base with baking paper.
• Sift Waltanna Foods Gluten Free Plain Flour, cocoa, baking powder and baking soda into a large bowl. Add sugar and salt and whisk to combine.
• Whisk eggs, oil, milk and vanilla. Whisk into dry ingredients until lump free.
• Add boiling water and whisk to incorporate. The batter is very thin.
• Leave to stand for 5 minutes.
• Whisk again and pour into cake tins.
• Bake for 35-45 minutes until a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Cool for 10 minutes and turn onto a wire rack upside down

Frosting (optional - not pictured)

Ingredients:

• ¾ cup unsalted butter
• 2 ½ cup icing sugar
• ½ cup cocoa powder
• ¼ cup oat milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Method:

• Beat butter until pale
• Add half the icing sugar and cocoa and beat for 3 minutes.
• Add remaining and beat again for 1 minute
• Add milk and vanilla and beat again for 1 minute
• Spread or pipe onto cake