Georgie's Chocolate Cake

This cake recipe has been our family birthday cake since I was about 8. It is dead easy and always works.

~Georgie's Chocolate Cake~

4 tablespoon soft butter

1 3/4 cups SR flour

1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda

2 tablespoons cocoa

1 1/4 cups caster sugar

2 eggs

1 cup milk

vanilla

Sift flour, bicarb and cocoa, stir through sugar. Whisk milk, eggs and vanilla together and pour into flour with butter.

Beat until smooth (packet cake setting on mixmaster) and you can't feel the sugar granules when you rub some mixture between your fingertips.

Bake at 175 degrees for about 3/4 hour or until skewer comes out clean.

I like to ice this with chocolate icing made with icing sugar, cocoa, butter, orange zest and orange juice to moisten.