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Veg Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache


Ingredients


1 1/4  cups Maida

3/4 cup Dark Cocoa + Milk Cocoa
1 Tspn Coffee mixed with 1 tspn of hot water

1 cup white butter

1/2 tin condensed milk

1/2 cup sugar ( you can use 1/4th cup regular sugar + 1/4th Demerera  or 1/2 cup regular sugar)

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon edible soda

1 teaspoon Vanilla essence

200 ml mixture of Milk and Water. 

1 pinch salt


Butter paper \white paper to line your baking tin


Method


1. Sift the maida,cocoa, baking powder, salt and soda together three times in a sieve and keep it aside.

2. Whisk butter to a nice fluffy consistency.

3. Add the sugars and condensed milk to the white butter and whisk it all together with a hand whisk.

4. Slowly add the flour ( maida + Cocoa + coffee) mixture . Fold it together.

5. Add the milk and water mixture slowly to the mixture to get dropping consistency. You might need to add lesser than the prescribed amount above.

6. Fold all the contents with a soft hand.

7. Line your cake tin with a butter paper glazed with some white butter.

8. Pre- heat the oven and bake the cake for 30 - 40 minutes at 180 Degrees Celsius. 

9. When the cake turns nice brown remove it and keep it aside for sometime on wire tray\ gauze.

10. When the cake cools down. sprinkle a few teasppons of sugar syrup over it.


You can add dried blueberries, pecans, walnuts , chopped dates, raisins, black currants to the cake mixture. Dust them with a little maida ( flour) before mixing in the cake batter.

Chocolate Ganache

Ingredients

100 gms Dark Chocolate 
1 Tspn White Butter

Method

Melt the Dark chocolate along with butter for 30 seconds in a microwave.

Pour the ganache over cooled down chocolate cake


Chocolate Sauce

 Ingredients

 2 Tbspn Cocoa Powder
1 Tbspn White Butter
1 Tbspn Drinking Chocolate
1 Cup Milk
2 Tbspn Condensed Milk

 Method

 Mix all the ingredients in a non stick pan till you see glaze.

 Pour the sauce over the chocolate cake.

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