Chocolate Cake
Cakes are made in a variety of flavours but Chocolate is the eternal favourite. Let us have a look at its recipe.
Ingredients :
- Self raising Flour (Maida) - 300 g
- Cocoa Powder - 1 cup
- Baking Powder - 1 Tbsp
- Eggs - 2
- Sugar - 1 Cup
- Vanilla Essence - 1/2 Tsp
- Fresh Cream/Whipping Cream - 1/4 Cup
- Dark Chocolate - 1 big Slab (200g)
- Butter - 50 g
- Salt - 1 pinch
- Baking Soda - 1/4 Tsp (Optional)
Method:
- Add eggs , sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl and beat them with a beater for 3-4 minutes, till it thickens a bit.
- Add self raising flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder in a separate bowl and mix them thoroughly.
- Add the egg mixture to the flour and once again mix it thoroughly.
- Add melted butter and mix it once again.
- Put the bowl in the oven at 180 degrees and bake it for 40-45 minutes. (Insert a toothpick in the centre of the cake and if it comes out clean, the cake is well baked.)
- Let it cool to room temperature.
- Meanwhile, make the ganache by melting dark chocolate . In order to melt the chocolate, boil water in a big utensil. Now, take a small utensil , break the chocolate in it and insert the small utensil in the big utensil and stir it till the chocolate totally melts.
- Now, remove the small utensil with the chocolate in it and add fresh cream/whipping cream to make it a thick mixture. The ganache is now ready.
- Pour the ganache all over the cake, even to the sides, to coat it completely.
- Let it cool and refrigerate it for at least 2 hours, preferably overnight.
- I have decorated it with Hershey's Kisses chocolate and colourful sprinkles.
If one wants to decorate it with icing, mix 50-100 g butter at room temperature (depending on the quantity of icing to be prepared) and 1/2 cup castor sugar and beat them thoroughly with a beater, to make it fluffy. You can use an icing bag with a nozzle of the shape of your choice in order to decorate the cake. The picture below is of a cake made by us with icing on top of it.
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