Chocolate cake

 My son loves chocolate cakes and this weekend ,I baked a delicious chocolate cake at home. My son enjoyed helping me in mixing and pouring. I have used wheat flour and brown sugar for a healthier option.

 I tried icing the cake with melted chocolate,butter and icing sugar and it turned out perfect. If you prepare excess of this mixture, you can store in fridge for few days. You can have the cake plain or choose to do the frosting.

  It takes around 15 minutes for preparing the cake batter and 20 to 30 minutes for baking.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour- 1 cup
• Cocoa powder- 2 tbsp
• Brown sugar-1 cup
• Baking soda-1tsp
• Salt-1pinch
• Milk-1/2 cup
• Oil-1/3 cup
• Vanilla essence-2 tsp
• Lemon juice- 1tbsp

For the chocolate frosting:

• Melted chocolate- 3 tbsp
• Butter-1/4 cup ( cold and soft butter)
• Icing sugar-2 tbsp
• Vanilla essence- few drops

Method:

• Pre heat the oven at 170 C for 15 to 20 minutes.
• In a wide bowl sieve the flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda.
• In another bowl mix the sugar,oil,milk,lemon juice and vanilla essence until the sugar dissolves completely.
• Pour the sugar mixture to the flour mixture and mix well without lumps. Adjust the quantity of milk until you get a batter of thick pouring consistency.
• Grease a cake tin with butter. Pour the batter and place it in pre heated oven.
• Bake for 20 to 30 minutes. Check frequently by pricking the centre of the cake with a tooth pick.
• When the tooth pick comes out clean,the cake is ready.
• Switch off oven and remove the tray.
• Cool it completely.
• Run a knife on the sides of the cake and turn the tin upside down and remove the cake.
• Chocolate cake is ready.

Frosting the cake:

• In a bowl place the cooking chocolate and melt using double boiler method.
• Allow the chocolate to cool down.
• Add butter and icing sugar to the melted chocolate and mix well.
• Apply on the cake and spread all over to coat the cake evenly on top and sides.
• Refrigerate for 10 minutes and cut into pieces.