You've just been told that your child has invited friends to play. How can you prepare a teatime treat in a hurry? Here is a super-quick recipe to fill hungry tummies.
Ingredients
1 cup flour
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1 cup castor sugar
1 cup hot water
3 tabs cocoa or 1.5 tabs coffee granules (Jacobs or Nescafe) dissolved in a bit of hot water
1 tabs baking powder
1 ml salt
5 ml vanilla essence
2 large eggs
Put a baking trivet into microwave oven.
Grease dish (20 cm diameter x 8 cm deep). Line bottom of dish with greaseproof paper and spray n cook it again
Mix together flour, castor sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl
Place cocoa or coffee essence into a mixing bowl, add the water and vanilla and mix well.
Add eggs and mix well again.
Mix wet ingredients into dry ingredients and using an electric mixer beat together for 30 seconds (very important)
Put cake mix into the prepared dish and place in centre of trivet in microwave and bake on full power for six minutes
When time is up you may find the centre of top of cake is moist, blot with kitchen towel and press lightly. Remove towel. Allow to cool a few minutes.
Turn onto cake rack, peel off paper and ice anyway you wish. Freezes well.
Recipe supplied by The Lean Aubergine Dietetic Services
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