Chocolate Walnut Cake

Chocolate Walnut Cake



Serves 8-12            Prep: 25 mins and cooling           Baking time: 1 and 1/2 hours



What do we need:

350 gr self raising flour
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon mixed spice
175 gr Margarine
60 gr walnuts, roughly chopped
60 gr plain chocolate (70%) roughly chopped
175 gr raisins
175 gr demerara sugar plus 1 tablespoon for the topping
2 eggs, beaten
about 150ml milk.


1. Preheat your oven to 180C. Lightly grease a 20cm round or an 18cm square cake tin and line with baking paper/parchment or grease greaseproof paper.

2. Sieve the flour and spices into a mixing bowl and rub in the margarine.
Stir the walnuts, chocolate and raisins into the mixture, together with the sugar.

3. Stir the eggs into the dry ingredients, together with three-quartres of the milk. Mix thoroughly, adding enough of the remaining milk to give a soft dropping consistency.

4. Place in your prepared tin, smooth over the top and sprinkle with the sugar for the topping.

5. Bake for 1 hour and then reduce the oven temperature to 150C.  Bake for a further 30 minutes until the cake is firm to the touch and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.

6. Cool the cake in the tin for 10-15 minutes and then turn out onto your wire rack.


My cake cracked open! And raised up high! But during cooling it went down again...Pff....
I used an Ikea tin for this cake.



This cake is perfect for people who can't have or don't like butter.

                                                                "Enjoy"