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Eat your Heart Out Chocolate Cake

A yes for all chocoholics! The yogurt gives the cake a fudgy soft texture which just makes it melt in your mouth!

8 - 10

Ingredients Method

1 Preheat oven. Break the chocolate into a small bowl and place over a saucepan of simmering water.
2 Using an electric mixer beat the butter and sugar together in a large bowl until paler in colour.
3 Mix the eggs and yogurt together; add these to the mixture along with the other ingredients. Beat together for a further 2 minutes.
4 Place the mixture into the heart shaped tin and bake in the oven for 40 – 45 minutes until sponge is risen and springs back when lightly touched. Cool in the tin for 15 minutes before removing onto a cooling rack.

Cooks Tip: This cake can be made into 2 x 20cm (8inch) round cake tins greased and based lined. Divide the mixture between the 2 cake tins. Cook 180˚C /Gas 4 for 30 - 40 minutes until the sponge is well risen and springs back when lightly touched. Sandwich the 2 sponges together with a 1/3 of the icing mixture and use the remainder to decorate the top.
5 To make the icing: Melt the chocolate as above. Place the butter into a large bowl and gradually beat in the icing sugar, add the vanilla extract and the melted chocolate and beat until smooth.
6 Spread the chocolate icing over the top of the cake, running the knife horizontally to make a pattern. Dust with cocoa to serve.