Eat like the Prime Minister: The Kevin Rudd Chocolate Cake

After spending hours researching the favourite foods of our world leaders, it seems that the most detailed information out there is that George Bush loves something called a ‘cheeseburger pizza’, Kim Beazley chooses Weetbix over everything else, and John Howard likes curries, but ‘only if they’re not too spicy’. Further afield, both the Japanese PM and Russian leader love ice-cream. So, as should be done with all food related matters, I’m keeping it simple and local...presenting our very own Prime Ministers special chocolate cake recipe, which incidentally he got from his mum. Awww.

Kevin Rudd's Family Chocolate Cake Recipe
Ingredients

• 185g butter at room temperature
• 155g brown sugar
• one tsp vanilla essence
• two eggs at room temperature
• 190g self-raising flour
• 30g cocoa powder
• 125ml milk

Method
1. Cream butter, sugar and vanilla, add eggs one at a time. In another bowl sift the flour and cocoa together, then fold it and the milk, alternating, into the creamed butter and sugar.
2. Bake for 40 minutes in a moderate oven fan forced about 150 degrees.
3. Icing
4. One-and-a-half tablespoons cocoa, 1 tablespoon warm milk, 75g butter (room temperature) cubed, 125g pure icing sugar, half teaspoon vanilla.