Easy Chocolate Cake

This morning I did the City 2 Surf, 12km walk, and although it was only a walk, it was tiring! Anyway, I felt like making a chocolate cake today, so I flipped through my massive cookbook, and found an easy-looking chocolate cake. This recipe is super easy, and has ingredients that you don't need to go out and buy. The only problem is that it is in the oven for 1 hour! Oh well. This is from the cookbook I got for xmas, and it is the 'Country Women's Association Classics' cookbook. It is Kim's chocolate cake.

Ingredients:
- 2 cups of self-raising flour
- 2 tablespoons of cocoa
- 1 1/2 cups of sugar
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons of butter, melted

How To Make It:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Grease and line a 23cm round cake tin.
2. Sift the flour and cocoa into a bowl (preferably a large one as this recipe makes quite a large mix)
3. Add the sugar, milk and eggs.
4. Beat with an electric mixer for 2 minutes
5. Add in the melted butter, and beat for a further 2 minutes.
6. Pour into prepared tin and bake for about 1 hour (although it took my cake about 1hr and 10 mins)

This recipe didn't include instructions for an icing, so this is what I did. It isn't accurate at all, and you have to make it by taste and texture, but it's something.

Ingredients:
- Icing sugar
- Cocoa powder
- Soft butter (not melted)
- Milk

How To Make It:
1. Put about 3 tablespoons of icing sugar into a medium bowl
2. Add in a tablespoon or two of cocoa powder.
3. Add in about 2 tablespoons of butter, and if needed, a splash of milk
4. Squish the butter into the icing, and keep adding either milk or icing sugar if the mix is not the texture you want.
5. In the end, the mixture should stay in the bowl if you tip it upside down, and make sure you put the icing onto a cool cake, otherwise it will melt.