18/12/2011

Drown in Choc cake

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This is the first time,I tried chocolate cake. I am not a choc lover, but my hubby is.This recipe is dedicated to my dear hubby.














Ingredients:

2 Cups of all purpose flour
1-1/2 cup sugar(powdered)
4 Tb spoon cocoa powder
3/4 cup milk
100g butter(I used amul butter)
1 cup water
1-1/2 Tb spoon baking powder
1 Tb spoon lime juice.

For choc glaze Icing:

1 cup of cocoa powder
1 cup of icing sugar(finely powdered sugar)
2 Tbspoon of Luke warm water.


Method:
Preheat oven to 200 degree C. Mix melted butter and sugar, till creamy froth comes. Sieve flour, baking powder and cocoa powder. 

Add water and milk in sieved mixture and mix well. Now add butter-sugar mixture and lime juice, mix the cake mix in cut n fold method. Keep Mixing for at least 10 minutes, to produce air in the batter.

Grease and flour baking dish  and pour the batter into it. Bake it for 30-40 minutes at 200o C. until a toothpick , inserted comes out clean. Do not over cook it as cake continue to cook even after removed from oven. Therefore, be alert while baking a cake.

For Icing:
Mix all the ingredients in a deep wok, and mix well until a smooth n shiny  texture comes out.

Take out the cooked cake and allow it cool for 15-20 minutes. Remove the upper layer of cake. and pour choc glaze in the center of cake and with the help of spatula spread the glaze all over the cake. Keep it in fridge for 10 minutes to set the cake. 

Remove it from fridge and cut into the pieces and serve with vanilla ice cream.




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