Ingredients for cake:
- Flour 2 cups
- Caster sugar 2 cups
- Coco powder 1 cup
- Baking soda 2 tsp
- Baking powder 1 tsp
- Salt ½ tsp
- Eggs 3
- Hot coffee 1 cup
- Butter milk ¾ cup
- Hung curd ¼ cup
- Oil ½ cup
- Vinegar 1 tsp
- Vanilla 1 tsp
Ingredients for chocolate cake frosting:
- Chocolate chopped 1 cup or 200 gm
- Scald Cream ¾ cup
- Chocolate ovaltine 3 tbsp
- Icing sugar 3 ounce
- Whipped cream 400 gm
Method for cake:
- Sift all the dry ingredients together, beat oil, sugar, eggs and essence,
- add in the dry ingredients and finely in all the dry ingredients,
- pour the batter into well greased 9 inches round pan,
- bake in a preheated oven for 45 to 50 minutes on 180 degrees, remove, chill and frost.
Method for icing:
- Scald cream, add ovaltine, pour over chocolate, mix to make genache,
- once it has cooled down, beat on low speed, gradually adding in the whipped cream, also mix in the icing sugar.
