Chocolate coca cola cake... Because you can...

This is a recipe I took off the internet (BBC Food) - because we were looking for a rich, sticky choc cake recipe for Abby's birthday ... I have really wanted to recommend it to my friends in Uganda because it doesn't need much chocolate and it has coca cola in it - which as we all know is widely available there! And, it tastes amazingly chocolatey and moist! So, it should be a useful recipe...

For the topping, it tells you to melt a Cadburys Caramel bar with a little cream... well, it is delicious, but I thought you might be able to use any toffee/caramel sauce and you can make one easily...

Ingredients:

250 g self-raising flour (in ShopRite but you can also use plain and add some baking powder)
300 g caster sugar (any sugar will do!!!)
3 heaped T cocoa
pinch baking soda
250g butter (= one packet)
250 ml coca cola
125 ml milk
2 eggs beaten
1 t vanilla

Topping:
caramel chocolate bar and
a little pouring/double cream  melted together
mini marshmallows (optional)

Method:
1. Heat the oven to 180
2. Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, and baking soda into a bowl. Melt the butter and cola drink gently and add to the dry ingredients.
3. Add the milk, eggs and vanilla.
4. Mix gently but thoroughly, and pour into a buttered tin (it says to use a round 9 1/2 inch loose-based tin but a 9 x 13 tin should work - it may cook a bit quicker then.)
5. Bake for about 40 minutes until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
6. Serve with the melted caramel bar and cream mixture poured over it, with the mini marshmallows stirred in if using.

If you want this recipe in cups instead of grams, there are conversion charts in some cookery books or look online, or I could post one if anyone wants me to.

This cake is definitely worth a try...