Easiest Chocolate Cake Ever

It doesn't look like much in the photograph thanks to my less than professional icing job but this is one of the nicest chocolate cakes I have tasted. Preparation time is only about ten minutes and the recipe is pretty much foolproof. This recipe is taken from Alison Holst's 'Good Food'.



1 1/2 cups of plain flour
1/2 a cup of cocoa
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 cup of sugar
125g of butter, melted
1 cup of plain unsweetened Greek yoghurt
2 eggs (at room temperature, not from the fridge)
3/4 of a cup of black coffee, cooled (2 teaspoons of coffee)

Cake
Sieve the flour, cocoa and baking soda into a bowl, add the sugar and mix well. Mix the yoghurt, melted butter, cooled coffee and eggs together in a second bowl and mix well.
Pour the liquid into the dry ingredients and combine well, do not beat.
Pour the mixture into a greased and lined 20cm square cake tin with sides at least 6cm high. Cook at 180C for around 50-55 minutes until the centre springs back when pressed lightly and a wooden skewer comes out clean.
Cool and ice.

Icing
1 1/2 cups of icing sugar
1/4 of a cup of cocoa
25g of melted butter
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
Boiling water

Sieve the icing sugar and cocoa into a bowl and then mix in the melted butter and vanilla essence. If necessary add a little boiling water and mix in until the icing is the correct consistency.