1 3/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking Powder
Pinch Salt
1/4 teasp bread soda
1/2 cup Cocoa
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 pound butter, softened
1 cup butter milk
1 teasp vanilla essence
2 eggs

ICING
2 cups Icing Sugar
1 1/2 teasp. cocoa.
2 teasp. melted butter
Coffee as needed

Makes approx, 12 slices.
Sift dry ingredients together. Add butter. milk and vanilla essence. Beat for 2 minutes. Add eggs. Beat 2 minutes more.
Half fill three 8" greased sandwich tins.
Bake in a moderate oven for 30-35 minutes at 170C.

Tier on top of each other sandwiched and coated with Icing.

or, as I used to do it, throw all the ingredients into a magimix, once mixed pour into a greased deep round tin with greaseproof base. Bake in the oven until cooked and after about 10 mins of sitting out of the oven, remove from tin on to a wirerack. When cool, slice into two or three discs so you can ice it.

Icing recipe.
Sieve flour and cocoa into a bowl, beat in butter and moisten with coffee. (You need very little coffee and be carefull, it goes too runny very quick)