Rich Chocolate Cake
Yesterday was J’s birthday. What better gift than achocolatecake, covered with chocolate ganacheand decorated with chocolate roses. That is how I set out to make this cake. It came out better than I expected and J sure was elated seeing it. But the irony of the situation was that J was not at home to cut the cake not even to taste it. He had to be satisfied with a virtual birthday cake, while we had the real one.
Even though I have tried out quite a few chocolate cake recipes, the one I am sharing with you today is my favourite. It was taken down few years back from the net and I do not recollect the source. 🙁 I can assure you that this recipe is a keeper. The original recipe calls for boiling water. Adding a teaspoon of coffee powder makes a lot of difference in the flavour. I have always been adding coffee.
Rich Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
- 1 - 3/4 cups Flour
- 2 cups Sugar
- 3/4 cup Cocoa powder
- 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
- 3/4 cup Water Boiling (add 1 teaspoon of instant coffee powder)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C.
- Powder the sugar finely.
- Sieve the dry ingredients together.
- In a bowl, beat the eggs till thickened and add the milk, oil and vanilla.
- Mix the flour mixture till well incorporated. Add the boiling water (coffee). The batter will be thin.
- Pour into baking pan/pans (You may require two 9" pans).
- Bake for 35- 40 minutes or till a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Cool on a wire rack.
- Your delicious Rich Chocolate Cake is ready :-).