Decadent Chocolate Cake.
You can have Decadent Chocolate Cake using 13 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Decadent Chocolate Cake
- Prepare 3/4 cup of whole wheat flour.
- You need 2 tbsp of cocoa powder.
- It's 2 tsp of baking soda.
- You need Pinch of salt.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of castor sugar.
- It's 1/2 cup of water.
- Prepare 1 tsp of instant coffee powder.
- You need 3 tbsp of flavourless oil.
- Prepare 2 tsp of vinegar.
- You need 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
- Prepare of for frosting.
- Prepare 100 gm of chocolate.
- Prepare 50 gm of fresh cream.
Decadent Chocolate Cake instructions
- Sieve the dry ingredients like whole wheat flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt..
- Then add castor sugar and mix well. You can also use regular sugar and sieve it along with the dry ingredients..
- Now take a heavy bottom kadhai. Pour enough salt at the bottom and keep a plate or cooker sieve to create a stand. Pre-heat this setup at high flame for about 5-10 minutes..
- Take a bowl and mix water with coffee powder, vinegar, oil and vanilla essence..
- Now mix the dry ingredients with the dry ingredients with the wet mixture. And mix it till it becomes a light pouring batter. Do not overmix the contents..
- Pour the batter into the tin which is previously oiled and covered with a parchment paper..
- Keep it on the pre-heated kadhai. Firstly cook it at high flame for 10 minutes and then at medium flame for 20-25 minutes..
- Check the cake is baked properly with a toothpick. Let it cool and then gently brush the top with milk to keep it soft..
- Unmould the cake and cover it with a muslin cloth. Wait till the cake comes to room temperature..
- Now to make the frosting, mix chocolate with a heated fresh cream till a smooth ganache is formed..
- Divide the ganache into two parts. To the first part add more cream to make it of a dripping consistency. And keep the other part into the refrigerator for half an hour..
- Now place the cake on a wired tray and pour the liquid ganache. Cover the cake properly using a spatula..
- After 30 minutes take out the refrigerated ganache and whip it till it becomes light and airy..
- Now fill it in a piping bag. And decorate your cake with the whipped ganache..
- You can also sprinkle some cocoa powder before or after piping the cake. Also you can use cherries and mint leaves for garnishing..
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