Chocolate or Vanilla Slab Cake

An emergency cake, simply stirred together in one bowl, quickly cooked into a slab, this cake is perfect for last minute visitors, lunches or to use as a base for several ideas for quick desserts.  It is cheap, easy, fast and can be varied in many ways.

Ingredients:
125grams butter
1/2 (half) cup milk
2 large (60gram) eggs
1 cup Self Raising flour
3/4 cup sugar (castor for vanilla cake - soft brown for chocolate cake)
2 tablespoons either custard powder for vanilla cake or cocoa for chocolate cake

Line a 11" x 7" slice pan with baking paper. 
Pre Heat oven to 160 degrees for fan forced or 180 degree.

In small microwave proof bowl, melt 125 grams butter,
add 1/2 cup milk
add two large eggs and lightly whisk through milk and butter

Into a mixing bowl
Sift 1 cup Self raising flour
2 Tablespoons either custard powder for vanilla cake or cocoa for chocolate cake
Add 3/4 cup sugar - castor for vanilla cake - brown for chocolate cake

Using a whisk, Stir dry ingredients together,
Add butter, milk, egg mixture and whisk together,
Pour into slab pan and cook in 160 degree oven 25 to 30 mins or until cake springs back when lightly touched.

The cake makes a thinish slab, and can dry out very quickly if overcooked.

Chocolate Cake with Caramelised Blood Orange Slices
Serves 2
I cut a slab from the end of the cake, halved it, sandwiched it with a simple chocolate ganache of melted dark chocolate and sour cream, topped the tower with two wedges of caramelised blood orange slices and served each half with a dollop of vanilla yoghurt.

Variations:
Chocolate Cake
Cut in half, spread top of one half with raspberry Jam and either sour cream or whipped cream
spread chocolate ganache or butter icing on bottom of other half slice, sandwich together and top with more chocolate ganache or butter icing.

Vanilla Cake
Cut in half, spread top of one half with Lemon Butter and whipped cream. Place other half on top of cream and either ice with lemon icing or more whipped cream

Ice with Passionfruit Icing. 
Ice with Lemon Butter Cream Icing.