Old Fashion Chocolate Cake

Old fashion chocolate cake because this is a recipe that uses cocoa powder and not dark chocolate. I think during the older days, chocolate cakes are baked with cocoa powder, or like my mum used to, Milo. There are loads of recipes, like melt-in-your-mouth chocolate cakes which uses chocolate instead of cocoa powder, which I am sure will taste superb, but I've yet to try any of those recipes... maybe one day. As for this weekend, I baked the same old recipe - one which was given to me by one of my high school classmate (I still remember her name!) and have since been baking this version of chocolate cake - erm... for the passed 15 years. Gosh... I'm that old already.

Anyways, the original recipe didn't come with the chocolate icing... it was not a trend to have icing like that for homemade cakes. I've sort of improvised and came out with something made of Cadbury milk chocolate.

I gone a bit crazy last Friday and got myself so much of chocolates! Wanted to use them to decorate the cake, but found that only one of the items gave the best result - Chocolate Mint Sticks.

So, after "packaging" the cakes looked like this...