Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake

You will need

Tip - All the ingredients should be at room temperature

All purpose flour ( maida ) - 110 g
Baking powder - 1 teaspoon
Cocoa powder - 2 tablespoon
Milk - 100 ml
Sugar - 110 g
Oil - 90 ml
Eggs - 2
Vanilla essence - 1 teaspoon

Method

Sieve together flour and baking powder.

Separate egg yolks and whites.

Beat egg whites till stiff.

Cream together sugar and oil. Add yolk of eggs one at a time and mix well and blend in a mixer for 45 seconds.

Dissolve cocoa in 100 ml milk.

Preheat oven at 150 * C or 300 * F.

Add flour and diluted cocoa solution to sugar - oil - egg yolk mixture. Mix gently.

Fold in stiffly beaten white of eggs. Add vanilla essence and mix slowly.

Transfer this cake mixture to greased ( or greased butter paper ) baking dish ( Grease baking dish with 2 teaspoon butter and dust with 1 tablespoon flour . ... sprinkle flour inside a cake pan and shake to coat all greased surface. Turn pan upside down to tap out the excess flour ) and bake at 150 * C or 300 * F for 35 - 38 minutes ( or till it leaves from the sides of the pan. See the photo below ).

Remove from the oven and allow to cool. Run a knife round inside of the pan to loosen the cake, and then invert the pan.

To test the cake - Insert a skewer into the centre of the cake. If the skewer comes out clean, then remove from the oven.