Nutty Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Dry

• 2 Cups All purpose Flour / Maida
• 2 tsp Baking Powder
• A pinch of  salt
• 4 tsp Coco Powder

For Mix of Wet

• 3 Eggs
• 1+3/4 Cup Castor Sugar/ Powdered Sugar
• 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
• 1 Cup Unsalted Butter or Margarine
• 1/2 Cup Milk

For Icing

• 1 Cup Heavy Whipping cream
• 1 tsp Coco Powder
• 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
• 2 tbsp Castor Sugar

For Outer Cake Frosting

• 120gms Chocolate Bar
• 1 Cup broken dry fruits

Method :

1. Sift all the dry ingredients,mixed together in a bowl.
2. Whisk the Eggs, Vanilla Essence along with Castor sugar until fluffy.
3. Now slowly little by little mix the dry ingredients into this.
4. Then mix butter and milk together till warm. Mix this into above made batter.
5. Transfer the batter in a cake tin and bake it for 40 to 45 min in a preheated oven at 180 ° c or 350 ° F.
6. Refrigerate the cake for couple of hours
7. Meanwhile prepare the icing by whisking all the ingredients required for icing.
8. Now take out the cake and cut it into half horizontally then apply icing in the inner half part.
9. Place the other half part over it as it was before cutting.
10. Melt the chocolate in a vessel keeping it inside another vessel filled with some water over a low heat.
11. Add the dry fruits in the melted chocolate and drop this over the top of the cake. Spread all over.
12. Refrigerate the cake  for couple of hours and then its ready to be served.

Tips :

1. The batter should have stair dropping consistency.
2. If the batter is too thick you can add little more milk.
3. Insert a toothpick; if the toothpick comes out clean, the cake is ready.
4. Whip the cream in a cold surrounding./

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