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Great served with Elmlea Light
This gorgeous moist chocolate cake has a lower fat content than your average but you'd never know it! It is also super quick and easy to make.

Ingredients:
Cake:
110g plain flour
175g caster sugar
45g cocoa
1tsp baking powder
1lrg egg
125ml skimmed milk
65ml olive oil
1tsp vanilla paste (essence will also work)
125ml boiling water

Frosting:
1 pack chocolate Philly
1tblsp elmlea light

Use one sandwich tin, brush with olive oil and then dust with cocoa powder. Preheat your oven to 180C/350F/Gas mark 4

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Put all of the cake ingredients except the boiling water into a large bowl and mix together well.
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Then add the boiling water a little at a time mixing each addition in well before the next. You should end up with a glossy, smooth mixture which you should transfer to your tin and put into the oven to bake.
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Cook your cake for approx 30 minutes, stick a skewer in to the centre and it is done when it comes out without liquid cake mix on, you can have some moist crumbs. Allow the cake to cool completely.
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If like me you have a crappy oven you might find you cake is a bit crunchy, (not burnt, honest!) on the outside before the centre is firm. I trimmed my cake of all the crunchy bits and ate them with a cup of tea!
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In a bowl combine your tub of choccy Philly and elmlea light until smooth and spread over the top of your cake with a palette knife.
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Serve with the rest of the Elmlea or on it's own.

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