Homemade chocolate chip cake

I invented this recipe myself. I fancied a chocolate cake something with a soft crumbly crunch. So I put a few ingredients together today and here we have it! :D

The best thing about this recipe is you barely need any sugar because the chocolate is naturally sweet.

Ingredients:

225 g Self raising flour
3-4 heaped tablespoons of sugar.
3 eggs
1 tablespoon of baking powder
 3-4 heaped tablespoons of butter/margarine
1 tablespoon vanilla essence
1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
1 sachet of chocolate chips.

Topping:

100 g plain chocolate. (It doesn't have to be cooking chocolate. Cooking chocolate is bland and tasteless. I recommend cadbury's chocolate)

Method:

1. Grease a 8 inch round baking tin with butter and put to one side then preheat the oven for 180 degrees.

2. Add flour, sugar and butter to a mixing bowl. Slowly crumble the mixture with your fingers but be sure not to overwork the mixture. Next crack 3 eggs into the mixture, add the vanilla essence and baking powder and the chocolate chips and mix together until all the ingredients are blended together.

3. Now pour the mixture into the baking tin, use the back of spoon to smoothen the mixture inside the baking tin. Next place the baking tin into the hot oven for 20-25 minutes. Once cooked remove the baking tin from the oven and put the cake onto a plate and leave aside to cool.

4. Now heat water on the fire, put a bowl on top of the pot and melt the chocolate bar.
Once melted leave the melted chocolate to cool, once cool smear your cake with chocolate. To decorate I added chocolate buttons, be as creative as you can!