I recently tried this new recipe, different from the regular cakes I generally bake. A friend was visiting from Oregon and I had been looking for a reason to try out this new recipe. It turned out to be pretty good, the chocolate creamy coating made it sumptuous but the cake as such felt light. I think it could be better more moist and probably an additional table spoon of butter should do the trick!
Warning: You're running the risk of 500 calories per serving!
Cake ingredients:
Eggs (room temperature) : 6
Sugar : 1 cup
Vanilla extract: 2 tsp
Flour (maida/all purpose flour) : 1 cup
Baking powder: 1 tsp
Unsweetened cocoa: 1/2 cup
Salt: 1/4 spoon
Butter: 8 tbl spoons
For chocolate coating:
Heavy whipping cream: 1 cup
Semisweet chocolate: 8 oz
Procedure: Cake
Grease 3 round pans (8" diameter) and dust with flour. Pre-heat the oven to 350 Fahrenheit. Melt butter and remove any foam formed at the surface. Let it cool to room temperature. Sieve the flour, baking powder, cocoa and salt. Keep aside. Beat the sugar and eggs (for about 10 min) until the volume doubles. Beat in the vanilla extract. Fold in the sieved mixture in 3 rounds. Do not beat the mixture. Fold in the butter. Pour the batter equally into the pans. Bake for 20-25 min until a knife pierced in comes out clean. Transfer the cakes to a wire rack and let cool.
Procedure: Chocolate coating
Boil the cream and drop in the chocolate blocks. Stir until the chocolate melts. Let it cool. Pour over each cake layering one above the other and smear the rest on the sides. Your treat is ready. Slice it into triangles and you could throw on a strawberry for that enticing look!
Let me know how it comes out! Comments and suggestions are welcome.
