Simple Chocolate Cake!!!

I have started making smaller portions of cakes. For two reasons – much smaller portions get distributed amomgst family members, which are health-wise good & second is I get to try different varieties at shorter intervals. It also gives me a chance to improvise on the dish, next time around.

So, immediately after the coconut cupcakes, decided to make a chocolate cupcake.. Have actually video-shot making the coconut cupcake, but due to some technical errors, can’t seem to edit it… don’t know when that will happen – my first video blog

Ingredients              

Dark chocolate	60 gms	Melted
Butter	60 gms	Cut in smaller pieces
Brown Sugar	1/4th cup
Eggs	1
Cocoa powder	2 tspn	Sifted
All-purpose flour (maida)	1/4th cup	Sifted
Baking powder	1 tspn	Sifted

Method

this is before the melted chocolate

1.    Put the pieces of dark chocolate in a saucepan over low heat and let it melt (keep checking and stirring or else it might start burning. I started this step just before the melted chocolate goes in the blender). Remove 10% of the chocolate bar and make very small pieces of those and keep aside

2.    Preheat oven to 160°C





3.    Cut the butter into small pieces and put them alongwith the brown sugar in a bowl. Blend both with an electric hand mixer (till such times, the mixture becomes even; u will still find the crunchiness of the brown sugar – don’t worry about it. Keep blending for 5 to 6 minutes)

4.    Add egg to the mixture and further blend for 2 minutes

5.    Sift the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder and add all of them to the blender to whisk more



in the greased cupcake; ready to go
in the oven



6.    Now, add the melted chocolate for a good 2 to 3 minutes (the mixture becomes nice and gooey & there should be no roughness of the brown sugar. Try it now to correct it in terms of more chocolate or sugar) (here, u can add those small pieces of chocolate. Do not blend after you add the pieces. We want the pieces to be felt while eating)





7.    Put the mixture in a greased baking tin or cupcakes (I used cupcakes for this dish – could fill in 3 cupcakes). I greased the cupcakes nicely with butter and baked for 30 minutes at 160°C (keep checking with a tooth-pick until it is withdrawn clean)

8.    Let it rest in the outside for 15 – 20 minutes in the tins

9.    Remove and gobble..

It goes well with a chocolate sauce on top.. I avoided it..

An honest and sweet delicacy awaits you.. gather around the table and eat it together.. quickly…

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