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This one came from the Womans Weekly Cookbook and was submitted by Vanessa. She says its great for birthday cakes.

Ingredients:

• 1 3/4 Cups Self-Raising Flour
• ½ Tsp Bicarbonate of soda
• ¼ Tsp salt
• ½ Cup Cocoa
• 1¼ Cups Sugar
• 125g (4 oz.) butter
• 1 Cup Milk
• 1 Tsp vanilla
• 2 Eggs

Chocolate Icing

• 1½ Cups Icing Sugar
• 2 Tsp Cocoa
• 2 Tsp Butter
• 2 Tbs Water

Instructions

1. Sift dry ingredients into large bowl;
2. Add sugar.
3. Add melted butter gradually; mix well.
4. Add milk and vanilla; beat well.
5. Add lightly-beaten eggs gradually; beating well after each addition.
6. Put mixture into greased and greased-paper lined deep 20cm (8 in) round cake tin.
7. Bake at 180C (350F) oven for 65 minutes or until cooked when tested.
8. Top with Chocolate Icing when cold.

Chocolate Icing:

1. Sift together icing sugar and cocoa
2. mix in meltedbutter and water
3. beat until smooth.

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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This is a great lemon loaf for every day lunch boxes, morning teas, and similar. Does not do overly well in fan bake oven apparently. This was submitted by Vanessa Liddell

Ingredients:

• 100g Butter
• 1 Cup Caster Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 1 Cup Self-Raising Flour
• ½ Cup Flour
• ½ Tsp Salt
• ½ Cup Milk
• Rind off one Lemon

Topping

• ¼ Cup Caster Sugar
• Juice of one Lemon

Instructions

1. Add butter and sugar together and beat until creamy.
2. Add eggs one at a time, beating quite well between each one.
3. Add sifted flour (normally I use Self-Raising flour and add 1 heaped teaspoon of baking
   powder).
4. Add salt, milk and rind of one lemon
5. Put into a greased loaf tin with a lining in the bottom,
6. place in a hot oven at 180 degrees for 45 minutes.

Topping:

1. Mix Caster Sugar and lemon together until dissolved (I
   usually put in more juice from another half lemon).
2. Pour over cake when you take it out of the oven (should be quite hot).

Cooking time (duration): 1 Hour

Number of servings: As many as you need

Meal type: Snack

(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

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