About the Recipe
With this recipe, you can make a classic, super delicious, moist Chocolate Cake.
Here, I have shared a special technique with you wherein we bloom our cocoa powder with some coffee in warm milk. We do this to ensure that we get a deep and rich chocolate flavour.
You may have this as a dry cake or assemble it with some ganache or cream.
Do try this recipe out, I am sure you'll love it!
Ingredients
Oil: 3/4 cup
Curd: 1/2 cup
Sugar: 1.5 cups
Coffee Powder: 1 tbsp
Cocoa Powder: 3/4 cup
Warm Milk: 3/4 cup
Maida/All-Purpose Flour: 1.5 cups
Baking Powder: 1 tsp
Baking Soda: 1/2 tsp
Sugar Syrup (optional)
Chocolate Ganache or Cream (optional)
Preparation
Step 1
Beat together oil, curd and sugar till sugar dissolves. Keep aside.
Step 2
Mix together coffee powder, cocoa powder and warm milk. Keep aside for 5 minutes. What we are doing here is blooming the cocoa. It will give a deep rich chocolate flavour to our cake.
Step 3
Sift and mix together maida/flour, baking powder and baking soda.
Step 4
Combine the wet ingredient mix with the bloomed cocoa. Check linked video for consistency.
Step 5
Now combine the dry and wet ingredients together. Mix well following the cut and fold method. There should be no lumps.
Step 6
Transfer the batter to a lined baking tin. I have used an 8 inch tin. Top on the surface to release air bubbles.
Step 7
Bake it at 180C for 30-35 minutes. Check with a skewer. It should come out clean. Let it cool down before de-moulding. Your basic chocolate cake is ready.
Step 8
To make a proper ganache or cream cake, cut the cake into two equal layers from the middle. Apply sugar syrup, the chocolate ganache or cream, place the other cake layer on top of it, again apply the ganache or cream and finally, top it with any toppings of your choice. Enjoy!