Easy chocolate birthday cake recipe - BBC Food

This is a really easy birthday cake for kids of all ages. Dan Lepard shows you how to make it in a step-by-step video.
This is a really easy birthday cake for kids of all ages. Dan Lepard shows you how to make it in a step-by-step video.
How to grease a round cake tin and line it with baking parchment.
Mary Berry demonstrates how a cake is ready when it's golden-brown and coming away from the edge of the tin. -Press it gently to check – it should be springy to the touch. -Set the cakes aside to cool in their tins for five minutes.
emoving a cake from a tin can be a tricky task. Mary Berry shows you how. -Run a palette or rounded butter knife around the inside edge of the cake tin and carefully turn the cake out onto a cooling rack. -To remove the cakes without leaving a wire rack mark on the top, put a clean tea towel over the tin, put your hand onto the tea towel and turn the tin upside-down. -The cake should come out onto your hand and the tea towel, then remove the greaseproof paper and turn it from your hand onto the wire rack.