Light Fluffy Chocolate Cake

Yes it has been the best fluffy and light chocolate that just melts away in your mouth leaving behind trails of heavenly chocolate flavor. I bet you are going to stick to this recipe as your favorite one and will bake it for your special occassions too.

Ingredients:

-2 cups Flour
-2 cups sugar
-2 eggs
-1 cup coco powder
-1 teaspoon salt
-1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
-1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
-2 teaspoon chocolate essence/ vanilla essence
-1 cup milk
-1/2 cup vegetable oil
-1//2 cup boiling water

Butter chocolate cream:

-1 cup butter
-1 cup icing sugar
-1 teaspoon vanilla essence
-1/2 cup cream

Method:

Preheat oven on 180 degrees Celcius.
Beat eggs one by one by adding oil gradually. Add chocolate essence/vanilla essence and salt. Beat well for about 3 minutes.
Sift together dry ingredients and gradually add into the egg mixture. Gradually adding milk & water together. Fold nicely and lightly. Pour into the prepared pan and bake for about 35-40 minutes or until your skewer comes out clean. You can go with 21 cm round cake pan or you can also bake split cake by dividing the cake mixture into two moulds.

For butter chocolate cream, beat together all the ingredients and make a nice spreadable consistency. You can always alter the measurements for your desired thickness.

Spread cold cake with cold cream and enjoy every bit of it with your family!!

Sand Cake

Today we had a rainy everning here and the romantic weather craved for something light and sweet along with coffee. I immediately decided to bake this smooth sand cake. As its name calls, its texture is slightly on the grainy and puffy side in comparision to the normal butter cakes we have. That is why its delight is also different and lovely.

I took..

200 gms self-raising flour

3 eggs

Vanilla essence 1 teaspoon

1 tablespoon cornflour

1 cup caster sugar

1/2 cup milk

150 gms butter

Method:

Preheat oven at 180 degrees Celcius.

Beat butter with sugar until nice and smooth texture. Beat in eggs one by one. Add vanilla essence and beat nicely.

Sift dry ingredients together and fold into the butter and egg mixture. Fold in milk gradually.

Pour into the prepapred pan and bake for about 30-35 minutes.