Cheer up chocolate cake

My friend Helen was feeling a bit down, so I promised her a chocolate cake. Completely lacking inspiration, I had a look in the cake ingredients aisle of M&S while I was shopping, and decided to make it a treacle-based chocolate cake. It's pretty straightforward, but I think this might be a winner!

Cheer Up Chocolate Cake
Ingredients

• 270g Black treacle
• 150g Butter
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  
• 3 Eggs
• 150g Self-raising flour
• 80g Cocoa powder
• 2tsp Bicarbonate of soda
• 100g Dark chocolate chips
  

Method

1. Melt the treacle, butter and vanilla extract over a double boiler and whisk together.
2. Whisk in the eggs, one at a time.
3. Sift in the flour, cocoa powder and bicarbonate of soda and fold in gently.
4. Stir in the chocolate chips.
5. Pour into a lined cake tin and bake at ~170C for ~40 minutes.