Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Home style chocolate cake that tastes like a Slice of Italy

Yes I know this is not a food blog. But can anyone survive without food?
Specially when the food in question is a Chocolate cake?
I baked one the other day and it turned out so well that I was asked to share the recipe.






So here goes:
Ingredients for the Chocolate Cake: 
1  tea cup plain flour ( Maida)
1 cup cream or milk top (malai)
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
Two heaped table spoons coco powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda (meetha soda)
1 pinch salt.
Sieve together all the dry ingredients and keep aside.
Put cream/malai and sugar in a big bowl. Mix in one direction with a wooden spoon.
Add one egg at a time. keep beating.
When it is nice and smooth and all sugar has dissolved. Begin adding the dry ingredients slowly and keep beating slowly.
Meanwhile the oven should have been switched on and heated at 180-200 degrees C (at least 15 minutes in advance).
Line a cake tin with foil. Pour/scrape the cake mix into the tin. Put it into the hot oven. Bake for 45 minutes or so till done.
I have a round oven with glass top, so I look in to see what is going on. You can use your way to check this.
Switch off the oven when you think the cake has been baked but DON'T OPEN the oven. Let it cool naturally.

Make chocolate sauce.

Ingredients:
2 tbsp butter or 1 tbsp clarified butter (desi ghee)
5 tbsp sugar
4 tbsp coco powder
1 tbsp corn flour or plain flour
1/4 cup water
Add 2 table spoons butter in a fry pan. Warm it on very slow fire. Add the coco powder and mix. Add the sugar. Continue to mix. 
Dissolve a spoon of plain flour/corn flour in 1/4 cup of water. Sieve it in to the coco powder mix in the fry pan. Keep mixing slowly on very low fire till it is thick and glossy. In about 1 minutes the chocolate sauce will be ready. Cool the sauce.
Assembling the cake:
Slice the cake into two layers horizontally. Spread chocolate sauce on the lower half. Put the top layer of cake on it. Spread more chocolate sauce on the top layer. Shave milk chocolate or any other chocolate from a chocolate bar onto the cake. Shave a few almonds too onto the cake. 
And it is all done. 

Admire your handiwork. And it is all done. 

Enjoy!

N.B: Clean the plate better than I did before photographing your lovely chocolate cake. Send the pictures to me. :)

5 comments:

  1. Good... Now put some easier recipes for raw cooks like me ��

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  2. Looks delicious. Will try it madhu, thanks for the recipe

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  3. Yummm but with egg!!..share the eggless version plzz :-)

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  4. Thanks Sfurti.
    I don't know the eggless version but conventional wisdom has it that you just replace the 3 eggs with 1/2 a tin of condensed milk. The rest of the recipe stays the same. :)

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