Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Chocolate Cake





Recipe for Cake is as follows  -
Ingredients -

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup Cocoa unsweetened
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 cup boiling water
Process - 
1.Mix sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
2.Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla
3.Beat for 2 min in mixer on low settings
4.Mix boiling water 
5.Put mixture in pan which is greased with oil / butter and then sifted with little flour.
6.Bake for 30 min on 350 F preheated oven.
Test  -  wooden pick inserted in center should comes out clean.then the cake is done.Cool for 10 mins.Remove the cake from pan and cool it on wire rack.

Frosting - 

1 stick butter or margarine
2/3 cup Cocoa 
unsweetened
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Melt the butter.Mix Cocoa.Add sugar , milk , vanilla essence one by one and mix till the frosting consistency.
Caution : After it cools down,it becomes hard.

When the cake is cool enough , spread the frosting on it with the flat spatula.
For Decortions use Strawberries.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

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