Easy chocolate birthday cake

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• Tins, packets and jars

  • 300g/10½oz plain flour
  • 150g/5½oz jam

• Cooking ingredients

  • 250g/9oz caster or brown sugar
  • 50ml/2fl oz sunflower oil
  • 25g/1oz cocoa powder
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • 25g/1oz cocoa powder
  • 300g/10½oz icing sugar

• Dairy, eggs and chilled

  • 100g/3½oz unsalted butter
  • 4 medium free-range eggs
  • 80ml/2½fl oz milk
  • 100ml/3½fl oz double cream
  • 50g/1¾oz butter
  • 50ml/2fl oz double cream
  • 250ml/9fl oz double cream, whipped until stiff peaks form when the whisk is removed

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