My Kitchen Experiments

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients For cake

All purpose flour/ self raising flour -1 1/4 cup

sugar - 1 cup

Butter -1/2 cup

Eggs -2

cocoa powder - 1/4 cup

Baking powder- 1 tsp

Baking soda - 1/2 tsp (optional, if you are using self raising flour no need to to add baking soda)

vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Milk - 1/2 cup

Salt -a pinch

For frosting

Double cream - 100 ml
Butter - 25 g
Dark chocolate - 100 gm
Honey - 1 1/2 tbs

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 180 degree c
Sift all purpose flour /selfraising flour and keep it aside.
In a mixing bowl beat butter,followed by sugar . Add cocoa powder and beat again until it is well incorporated. Add sifted flour,baking powder,baking soda,eggs,salt and beat again. Finally add vanilla essence , milk and beat. Pour the batter into a greased cake tin.Bake for about 40 - 45 minutes( if a knife inserted come out clean cake is ready).Remove from the oven and allow the cake to cool for some time.

For Frosting

Heat double cream in pan and when it is about to boil switch off the stove and add rest of the ingredients and wait for five minutes until the chocolate melts . Mix well.
Spread the frosting on the cake and finally decorate the cake with grated chocolate.Wait for the frosting to set before you cut the cake.