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choclate cake

My being featured in “Talking cranes” 
  http://www.talkingcranes.com/food/grilled-spinach-toasts
calls for a celebration but unfortunately I don’t have the time to make something elaborate because I am super busy today, so I guess this chocolate cake with the simplest frosting should do the needful.

 Ingredients:

1.         200 grams salted butter at room temperature

2.         4 eggs

3.         200 grams castor sugar

4.         200 grams  all purpose flour

5.         50 grams cocoa powder

6.         1 ½ teaspoon baking powder

7.         ½ teaspoon baking soda

8.         125 ml  curd

9.         1 teaspoon vanilla essence

10.     For the icing:  50 grams unsalted butter, 50 grams icing sugar , two tablespoons warm milk and 3 teaspoons cocoa powder

Method:

1.        Sift the flour, cocoa , baking powder and soda.

2.        Pile up all the ingredients in the food processor starting with the butter, eggs , sugar, following with the sifted flour and lastly the curd and essence.

3.        Blend till well mixed.

4.         Pour into a 8 inch round tin.

5.         Place in a preheated oven at 180° for fifty minutes.

6.         Let the cake come to room temperature before turning it over into a plate.

7.        For the icing , put the butter into a thick bottomed pan and place it on top of a double boiler or like I did , place the pan over a pan of hot water and turn the gas on low so that the water keep simmering.

8.         Now you have got to be fast …..mix the cocoa well in the hot milk and add the cocoa-milk mixture and the icing sugar to the butter and stir till just about mixed, care not to let the butter melt too much.

  9.         Spread the icing on the cake and decorate with whatever suits your style.

choclate cake

choclate cake