Chocolate Cake

Grrrrr...... Yes I am starting this post with a lot of irritation. I had drafted this post in the morning & someone has removed the charger plug from my laptop. When I got back to my desk, the laptop was shutdown & now I need to type out the recipe again......I love to bake & cook but when it comes to posting it, I am very lazy. Hmmm now do I have an option? No:( 

This is a chocolate cake recipe & in the past I have posted different types of chocolate cake recipes. We all know there are plenty of recipes in the net & we all have our own favorite ones. This is the cake that I used to bake long time ago & forgot to note down the recipe. After so many years, couple of months ago I came across a recipe which is very similar to the one I used to follow earlier for chocolate cakes. Looking at the cake texture, I knew this was the recipe I was looking for. This recipe is from addapinch.com. In this recipe, oil is used instead of butter & hot water is used to give air to the cake. The cake is very moist & melt in your mouth types. This is a great cake for decorations & also to eat it just like that. This is how I made the cake.

Making time: 45 minutes

serves: 20- 25 people

10 inch square pan or 9 inch 2 round pan

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar (powdered)
• ¾ cup cocoa
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1½ teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon instant coffee powder
• 1 cup milk
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup boiling water
• 1 tspn Butter essence

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350º F. Prepare two 9-inch cake pans by spraying with baking spray or buttering and lightly flouring. Or 10 inch square pan.
2. Add flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt to a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer. Whisk through to combine 
3. Add milk, vegetable oil, eggs, vanilla, butter essence, instant coffee into a bowl & mix well.
4. Now mix  in the wet ingredients into the dry one on medium speed until well combined. 
5. Reduce speed and carefully add boiling water to the cake batter. Beat on high speed for about 1 minute to add air to the batter.
6. Distribute cake batter evenly between the two prepared cake pans or 1 10 inch sqaure pan. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick or cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
7. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for about 10 minutes, remove from the pan and cool completely.
8. Frost cake with Chocolate Frosting.

Simple Chocolate Frosting

Ingredients:

• 1.5 cups chocolate chips
• 2 tbspn butter
• 1/2 cup icing sugar
• 1 tspn vanilla essence

Directions:

1. In a doube boiler melt the chocolate chips. Once they are melted add in rest of the ingredients & mix well.
2. After this mixture has cooled, just spread it over the cake. 

Note:

1. This cake can be used as a base for many recipes like Black forest, mousse cake, chocolate fudge cake, trifle etc.
2. This cake can be refrigerated for over month & it will still stay moist & soft.

Pound Cake

 

Tomorrow is my Birthday & every year I have been asking my hubby to cook something special for me:) My hubby hates to cook & he has never cooked anything after marriage. Before marriage whenever he went on site he used to make some basic Indian cooking. After marriage he is so pampered by me that he never felt the need to cook. When I was expecting Zion, I had very bad morning sickness. I used to throw up more than 25 times a day & felt hungry often. Even in such situation my hubby never cooked at home, but was always ready to pick up food from outside or get it home delivered. Now you can imagine how much he loves to cook, right! :)

As usual I keep pestering him to make something for me & can you believe finally he agreed. He said he will bake a cake for me & I have to give him an easy recipe. His conditions were that I keep all the ingredients, measuring cups outside in the kitchen platform & none of us enter the kitchen while he is at work. I was so happy that I was able to crack this nut:) My hubby is a perfectionist & whatever he does he wants it to be perfect. I told him that the Pound cake recipe is very easy & he opened that in the phone & started to bake. Since it was his first time he took almost 40 mins to prepare the batter:) The cake was made perfectly & I was so happy. The best part is now he says that he loved baking & wants to bake more often. He also mentioned that he wants to try his hands on cooking as well.  I say "if Sharon can bake, anyone can bake"

For recipe click here

 
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Check out the texture! its turned out so perfect.