Adam's Chocolate Brownie Cake

This is really just my chocolate brownie recipe but made as a cake... Just as tasty!!


2 slices of lightly burnt brown toast (we are not talking cinders here - just black enough that you'd think twice about eating it)
1/4 cup SR flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup chopt crystallised ginger
1/4 cup chopt pecans or walnuts
1/4 cup choc chips
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon mixed spice
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1/2 cup milk
3 Tablespoons oil
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Put all dry ingredients into a bowl and mix well.
Put wet ingredients into a jug and beat together, then pour onto the dry ingredients and mix up really well.
Pour into a greased/lined/whatevered 8" or 9" round tin (I use those silicone ones now - they don't need lining) and bake for about 25-30 minutes at about 160C (medium hot).
Leave to cool in the tin...

If you are that sort of person, I dare say you could whip up some sort of icing to put on top... but the most I'd do myself is probably just a drift of icing sugar seived over the top.

This goes really well with cardoman coffee - add a pod or two of cardoman to your coffee beans as you grind them up. What??? You don't grind your beans???? };-)