It
is my 50th post and what better than everyone’s favourite – a decadent
chocolate cake. There are not many
people who doesn’t like a Chocolate cake so this post is rather special. I was
bitten by that baking bug again this morning and really wanted to make
something special. I made this for two gorgeous little girls who live next door
and whom my little toddler loves. So this one is for them! This is cake is very soft and chocolaty, just like
how a good chocolate cake should be. This one is a keeper and am sure I will be
making this again soon.
You will need:
Dark
Chocolate chopped – 56 gms
Vegetable
oil – 3/4th cup
Egg
– 1
Sugar
– 1 cup
Vanilla
Essence – 1 tsp
Cake
Flour – 2 cups
Cocoa
Powder – ½ cup
Salt
– ¼ tsp
Baking
Powder – 2 tbsp
Buttermilk
– 1 cup
Strong
coffee – 1 cup
Melt
the chocolate in a microwave safe bowl in brief intervals till you get a smooth
mixture.
Whisk
together the oil, sugar, egg, vanilla essence and the cooled melted chocolate until
the sugar is dissolved.
Sieve
together all the dry ingredients.
Add
the dry ingredients to the chocolate mixture alternating with the buttermilk
and coffee a little at a time whisking gently until smooth.
Pour
into a silicone bundt cake mold or a greased bundt cake tin.
If
you are using a silicone mold, make sure you place it on a cookie sheet before
lifting it to the oven; else you may end up spilling the mixture.
Bake
in a preheated oven for about 40 minutes (silicone mold) or 45 minutes (regular
bundt tin) or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Once
done, allow the cake to cool completely before removing from the mold.
Pour
the Ganache over the cooled cake and let it set slightly before serving.
Chocolate Ganache Glaze:
Dark
Chocolate chopped – 80 gms
Cream
– 1/3 cup
Corn
syrup – ½ tbsp
Butter
– ½ tbsp
Put
the chopped chocolate, butter and corn syrup in a bowl.
Heat
the cream and pour over chocolate. Let it rest for a minute and stir until
smooth.
looks very inviting...following you...
ReplyDeletewhere do you get corn syrup?
thank u Binita :) . I got Corn Syrup from IBCA on mission road in Bangalore!
DeleteHi Serah,
ReplyDeleteU must have heard this several times"..I chanced upon ur website...." me too! I was looking for sepen recipe and landed on ur page.humm and I spent a lot of time going through ur posts. What I like about ur posts is that u use easily available ingredients. And I like ur taste which is very similar to my family's. I too love to cook varied dishes for my family but having a fulltime job restrict leisure cooking for weekends. I use my OTG for very basic stuff as I have not yet been able to make meat juicy. it always dries out. But after going through your posts I'm very tempted to try crispy chicken and pork ribs!
Hopefully this weekend.
Regards
Micky
micks.neelam@gmail.com
Hi Micky :) !!! Welcome to my blog. I am so glad you liked what you saw until now. You should definitely try some of the recipes especially the pork and the crispy chicken.Those are my favourites. If you have any queries regarding the recipes, please do feel free to ask anytime :) . PS. With the chicken, must have it immediately out of the oven, else keep it on keep warm mode until you ready to have it. Lemme know!! Glad to have you here. Please do join the blog if you would like to follow more.
DeleteThe Choco-Bundt cake came out very very well.Thank you for the recipe. I skipped the Ganache , thinking about the calories that family may put on ! The cake was superb !
ReplyDeleteFrom this blog, this is the third recipe I am trying out - am a fan now!
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