Chocolate Cake Mix DIY

BY GAZETTE REPORTER JONI - THE BAKER IN THE HOUSE
We have done a series of bakes, trying out different chocolate cake mixes you can buy from a supermarket.  I'm not convinced how much of time saver they are if you have all the ingredients of hand, but  I thought it would be a nice kitchen gift to give someone.  It is quite nice to have the dry ingredients all measured out ready to go.
​

Bought chocolate cake mixes and my DIY versions.

So here is my go to quick cocoa chocolate cake recipe that works quite well as a premade cake mix.
Grab your pretty jars and papers.  I made a chocolate cake mixes and a chocolate icing mix.
My jars held 2 cakes worth or one big cake.  I kept the cake mix layered as I thought it looked nice.

CHOCOLATE CAKE MIX - for a 20cm cake tin
2 cups flour
3/4 C cocoa
1 1/2 tsp of baking powder
3/4 tsp of baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 C castor sugar
Mix or layer in a jar
Write this recipe on a paper to tie around the jar:

Soften 3/4 C butter
add to dry cake mix 
Add 1 tsp Vanilla 
2 eggs
1 1/4 C milk

Mix all together and bake at 180 degrees C for 30 minutes

Icing Mix is 1 cup of icing, 1/2 cup of cocoa ratio
My icing is not really measured out, but it starts with 2 Tb of melted butter and 2 tsp vanilla essence, add icing sugar and cocoa, then add a Tb of water at a time to get the consistency you want.