CHOCOLATE CAKE

My neighbour here in Brussels bakes the most excellent cakes and pasteries in the world. This attempt was just to learn her way of baking before leaving this place. Thanks Ashima for teaching me :) Here goes the recipe. A simple one.

Ingredients Required :

Maida - 1 cup
Grounded sugar - 1 cup
Eggs - 3 to 4
Vanilla essence or Cinnamon Sticks - little (can be 6 to 7 cm in length)
Baking powder - 1 spoon
Melted chocolate - as per taste (usually one whole bar. Tastes best when used dark chocolate)
Chocolate for decoration - 1 piece

Procedure :

• Pre-heat the oven on 100 degrees for 10 minutes (Before starting second step switch on the oven. By the time you get your batter ready the oven would be ready for baking)
• Take your big mixer jar
• In this add the ground sugar and eggs ( use only the inside portion of the eggs) and beat well
• To this add the cinnamon stick bit and melted chocolate and beat well
• To this add baking powder and maida and beat just once till everything mixes well.Make sure while beating this you don't do it too much as the cake would become hard (You can mix it with hand to avoid confusion)
• Butter the mould in which you are planning to bake the cake
• Pour the batter in the mould smoothly
• Bake it for 20 minutes. Continuously monitor the cake
• The cake would rise after a while and you would be able to see cracks on the top. This means the cake is almost ready
• Poke a knife or fork till the bottom of the cake to find out the consistency
• If nothing sticks to the fork your cake is ready
• Take the mould out and immediately start grating the chocolate piece on top of the cake. The grated chocolate will melt on the top to give it a flavour

Alternate option for the decoration : 

Option 1 :

You can melt half a bar of dark chocolate and mix it will little ground sugar and butter and use it as icing. If you wish for a layered cake you can cut the cake into two horizontally and use the same icing in between too.

Option 2 : 

You can decorate it with chocolate chips or Gems or flat M&Ms which children would love.

Hope you all enjoyed preparing this cake. Please try this out and send in your valuable suggestions.

Thanks Guys !!!