Shortcut Chocolate Cake

The Shortcut Chocolate Cake is an easy to make cake. It makes use of a blender. To get the perfect texture see that you don’t over blend. The process is like making an emulsion – like a mayonnaise. Try it soon.

Serves: 8 to 10 Persons

Prep. Time: 20 Mins

Baking Time: 45 Mins

Ingredients:

[ Standard Measure : 1 cup = 250 ml ]

• Maida [APF] – 1 cup
• Powdered Sugar – 1 cup
• Cocoa – ¼ cup
• Milk – ½ cup
• Oil – ½ cup
• Eggs – 2
• Soda-bi-carb – ½ tsp.
• Baking Powder – 1 tsp.
• Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp.

Step 1:     Take the eggs, sugar, oil, cocoa in a small mixer jar and blend for about 2 minutes (don’t over blend). Transfer to a large bowl.

Step 2:     Take the flour, soda-bi-carb, baking powder and a pinch of salt in a sieve and sieve into the wet ingredients. Add the vanilla essence to the bowl and fold in all the ingredients.

Step 3:     Add ½ of the milk and fold / mix in slowly. Then add the remaining milk and mix in one direction (don’t over mix).

Step 4:     Set your oven to pre-heat at 180° C for 15 minutes.

Step 5:     Pour the batter into a pre-greased 8 x 3 inch pan and tap to remove any air bubbles.

Step 6:     Bake at 160° C for 45 minutes to 1 hour till a skewer pierced into the cake come out clean.

Notes:

• This cake is baked at a lower temperature.
• Remember not to blend the ingredients for a long time.