Choco Coffee Cake-Soft and Moist

 There were some guest  on last weekend to our home. This was our dessert. Got positive comments from them. Cake was too soft.The given recipe is from a cookery show that i saw some months ago.

Ingredients:

• Maida/All purpose flour-2 cup(500 ml)
• Cocoa powder(i used hershey's)-3/4 cup
• Coffee powder-2 tspoon
• Egg-2
• Vanilla essence-2.5 tspn
• Powdered sugar-2 cup
• Curd-1/2 cup
• Salt-1 tspoon
• Baking soda-2 tspoon
• Baking powder-1 tspoon
• Refined oil-1 cup
• Boiling water-1 cup

Preparation:

(1) Take a bowl and add all maida, baking powder and baking soda. Mix it and sieve it for two or three times. Keep it aside in a bowl.

(2) Add coffee powder and cocoa powder in another bowl. Evenly mix two powders in hot water with a whisk. Keep it aside.

(3) In another bowl add egg,salt and vanilla essence. Beat well with a whisk(you can use electric mixer instead of whisk-i don't have it) Keep the mixture aside.

(4) Now take a medium sized vessel. Add sugar,curd and refined oil. Mix well with a whisk or electric mixer . Mix till sugar dissolves completely and u get an even mixture.

(5) To this mixture mix beaten egg little by little using a whisk or mixer. After that mix maida mixture and cocoa mixture little by little to it. Do this alternatively and mix evenly. Make a fine evenly distributed batter. 

(6) Preheat your oven to 300 degree F. Grease your cooking pan with oil. I used a 9 inch pan. Pour batter to it. Tap the bottom of pan if u have any air bubbles.

(7) Bake it for 30 to 40 minutes in oven. To check if it is done insert a fork or tooth pick to the centre of cake. If it comes out clean your cake is ready or if you touch the cake it should lightly spring back. Take out from the oven and allow it to cool for 10 minutes in a wire rack. Carefully invert the cake by gently tapping on the back side of pan.  I inverted it on a newspaper :-p….Your choco-coffee cake is now ready…

I used half of the ingredients listed above to make this. Finally i want to give a touch up. That is the vanilla icing you can see over the cake. i bought it from market. Bad design eh???? Better luck next time:)

Tips for beginners in baking:

• Grease the pan with oil or butter. This will make it non-sticky.
• The batter should be watery. It will thicken during baking.
• Always pour batter to half of the pan coz it will rise during baking.
• Preheat oven according to the type of your oven. I baked it in 30 minutes with a temp of 300 degree F. Settings may accordingly. Keep an aye over the cake after 20 minutes.
• Don't turn over the cake immediately. Allow to cool for 5 to 10 minutes so that it will not break.