Chocolate Apple Sauce Cake

Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease and flour a 20x30cm tin. Sift together the flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Set aside.

In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, using an electric mixer set on medium speed. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Blend in the vanilla extract. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the apple sauce.

Pour the mixture into the prepared tin. Sprinkle with the chocolate chips. Bake at 180 C / Gas 4 for 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Cool in the tin on a wire rack.