Mokka Palat (Mocha Squares)

A Finnish housewives' favourite. 

Loved by grown ups and children alike.

Ingredients

For the cake:

500 ml (450g) sugar

500 ml (300g) plain flour

(Vanilla sugar, optional)

1.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1tsp salt

250 ml water

200g butter

3-4 tbsp cocoa powder

100 ml plain yoghurt or buttermilk

2 eggs

Chocolate icing:

100g butter

2 tbsp milk

(1 tsp instant coffee powder, optional)

1 tbsp cocoa powder

icing sugar

Method

In a pan, bring to boil the water, butter, cocoa powder and salt. 

When all melted and smooth take off the heat.

In a bowl, combine the dry ingredients together (flour, sugar, bicarb).

Stir the wet mix (cocoa, butter, water) into the dry ingredients.
Mix in the plain yoghurt.
Make sure the mixture is cool and then stir in the eggs.
Line a baking tray with non-stick baking paper.
Pour in the cake mix and smooth it out evenly.
Bake at 200ºc for 20 minutes. Let it cool down.

In a pan melt together the butter, cocoa and milk. 

If you wish to use instant coffee, mix it first with the milk. 

Keep adding icing sugar until you get nice thick easily spreadable consistency. 

Spread over the cake and cool. 

You can sprinkle over grated chocolate, white chocolate pieces or hundreds of thousands.

Cut into squares.