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Monday, October 08, 2007

Recipe-Chocolate cake

Chocolate cake (for 2 kg)
Ingredients
10 eggs
300g sugar
Less than 300g maida (first add cocoa pd in the weighing pan and then add maida to measure total 300g)
5 tbsp cocoa pd
2(5/6) tsp vanilla essence
2 (5/6) tsp baking pd

Sieve maida, cocoa pd and baking pd at least 3 times. Grease a cake tin. Dust it with the sieved flour.Separate eggs. Beat egg whites till stiff. Add egg yolks 1 at a time. Beat till creamy. Add sugar little at a time and beat till dissolves. Continue until all sugar has dissolved. Add vanilla essence. Preheat the oven at 180 deg. Fold in the sieved flour. Pour into greased container and bake till done(abt ½ hr).

For butter icing
500g icing sugar
125g margarine
125g butter
Cocoa pd for chocolated icing

For melted chocolate icing
120 ml fresh cream
120 g dark chocolate

Method for icing the cake: turn the cake upside down on a board. Separate the cake into 2 halves.Mix 1 tbsp sugar with 1 mug water and spray on both layers. Apply chocolate butter icing on bottom layer and sandwich the cake with the top layer. Spray the whole cake with the sugar water again. Heat cream. Put off the flame. Add chopped chocolate and allow to melt. Pour over the cake and leave to set in refrigerator. Finish the decoration with butter icing.

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