Chooocolate Cake

The Basic simple yum chocolate cake....everyone's favourite...

So what we need...

Ingredients

Flour/ Maida        - 1.5 cup
Baking Powder    - 1 tsp
Cocoa powder      - 2 tpsp
Coffee pdr            - 1 tsp
Eggs                     - 4 numbers
powdered sugar   - 1 cup
vanilla essence    - 1 tsp

How to bake chocolate cake...

Add sugar, then oil and then eggs one by one in a bowl or mixing pot.

side by side seive flour + cocoa powder + baking powder and coffee.

No pre heat oven for 15 mins at 180° C in convection mode.

Now add flour mixture to oil egg mixture and beat a little more

Now bake cake for 45 minutes in oven.

Suggested serving - Coffee liquour poured on cake adds taste to this cake
Coffee liquor - 1/2 spoon coffee + 4sp grounded sugar + 1 cap rum.

Eggless chocolate cake

2 cup maida/ flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp cocoa powder

100 gm butter (white preferable)
1 cup milk
1 cup milk powder

sieve all dry ingredients
mix all wet ingredients
Mix both and bake me up in oven for 30-40 mins at 200 deg C

Malai cake

1.5 cups (175 gms)flour/ maida
1 cup powdered sugar
1 cup malai/ home made cream
1 cup milk
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp baking soda
few drop vanilla essence
few dry fruits

seive flour, BP and BS

mix sugar, oil, milk, malai till its sift in touch

add essence and dry fruits

bake in pre heated oven till light brown say approx 60 mins

Coke chocolate cake

Yes you heard it right it's a cake with coke and chocolate ctoo...a deadly combinations isnt it....
so here's what u have to do...


Flour / maida        - 2.5 cups
cocoa powder       - 1/2 cup

baking powder      - 1.5 tsp
baking soda          - 1.5 tsp
refined oil             - 3/4th cup
condensed milk    -  400gm(1 tin)
sugar                     - 3 tbsp
pepsi/ coke/ thumbs up - 180 ml
vanilla essence      - 1 cap
walnuts                 1 cup

Coke cake method

Beat oil + condensed milk + sugar.
Mix well till oil is not seen in separate state and is mixed properly. It should be a uniform paste.

Side by side sieve maida, cocoa pdr, BP, BS 6-7 times.

Now add half of maida mix and half of soft drink to above mixture.
Mix properly not much of beating is required till all mixture is added....

now slowly add remaining maida mixture and coke and now finally beat properly using spatula or whisker or mixer...till its light

Beating with hand is well enough in this cake no beater is required if you can manage.

Preheat oven at 180° C and bake cake for approx 60 mins at same temperature.

Marble Cake or Layered cake

Layered cake or call it marble cake, well when i had not made it i use to think why this name, why cant it be just called simple chocolate cake, but name matters.

When made with proper layering one can actually enjoying the different layers that can be seen when cake is ready. There is no specifications but natural layers that cake produces look really beautiful, and when such creative layers are your own creations then you feel more on top of it.

Easy to make, and more than that beautiful in platter.

• Eggs   6
• Refined oil  300ml
• Sugar  300g
• Flour  300g
• BP  2tsp
• Cocoa pdr  1tbsp
• Pine esse  2tsp
• Soda bicarb  ½ tsp
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• METHOD
• Beat eggs and sugar
• Mix flour with baking powder and soda bicarb
• Add cocoa powder to half the batter.
• Alternately pour chocolate and plain batter into the tin and run a fork or knife through it to create marbling effect.
• Bake it at 200 deg for 60 minutes. 
   

Carrot & Walnut cake

INGREDIENTS

• Maida/ flour                    - 3 cups
• Baking soda(NaHCO3)  - 2tsp
• Salt                                 - 1 tsp
• Eggs                               - 3 numbers
• Powdered sugar             - 1.5 cups
• Refined oil                     - 1.5  cups
• Grated carrot                  - 2 cups
• cardamom powder          - 1 tsp
• vanilla essence                - 2 tsp
• Walnuts                          - handful

METHOD 

Sieve maida, soda, salt 5-6 times

Add lil coffee pdr, bkng soda and salt to maida

Beat oil, sugar and then add eggs one by one and beat till fluffy.

The more you sieve the more fluffy cake it will be as this way we incorporate air in mixture.

Add vanilla essence, grated carrot and beat again.

Finally add the maida mix and walnuts and with lil more beating the batter is ready to bake.

 Bake this batter for 60mins at 230 degree preheated oven.

Once cooled it ready to be served....and "ta-da" here'e hot and fresh carrot cake on platter....