Potpourri Cafe: Bake a Cake

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Saturday, 23 January 2016

chocolate cake

The Basic simple yum chocolate cake....everyone's favourite...

So what we need...

Ingredients

Flour/ Maida - 1.5 cup
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
Cocoa powder - 2 tpsp
Coffee pdr - 1 tsp
Eggs - 4 numbers
powdered sugar - 1 cup
vanilla essence - 1 tsp

How to bake chocolate cake...

Add sugar, then oil and then eggs one by one in a bowl or mixing pot.

side by side seive flour + cocoa powder + baking powder and coffee.

No pre heat oven for 15 mins at 180° C in convection mode.

Now add flour mixture to oil egg mixture and beat a little more

Now bake cake for 45 minutes in oven.

Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Chocolate cake

Friday, 25 September 2015

Eggless cake

Ingredients

2 cups whole wheat flour/ flour
2 cups sugar/ shakkar
3/4 cup - 1 cup refined oil
1 cup curd
1/2 Tbsp baking powder
1 1/2 Tbsp soda bicarbonate (meetha soda)
1-2 Tbsp cinnamon powder
Water / milk to be added according to the consistency of the batter
A handful of walnuts, raisins, almonds as per choice

Method

1. Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees Celcius.

2. Mix curd and oil together in a bowl ( you can use blender, whisker or even a mixie pot) and.... Then mix the dry ingredients(flour, BP and BS) into this bowl and fold well.

3. Mix it till dripping consistency, adding water/milk if needed.

4. Grease the bottom of a baking dish and sprinkle lil flour on it and pour the batter in pot.

5. Now bake at 170 degrees C for 1 hour and keep checking at intervals with a knife.

6. Cut and serve when cool.