Here i bring you an authentic recipe for all time favourite chocolate cake !
Ingredients
6 oz.flour
1 oz cocoa powder
1 oz.cornflour
2+1/2 tsp.baking powder
8 oz.butter
8 oz.sugar
4 eggs
1/4 cup milk
Cream the butter sugar and vanilla together.Add eggs and beat well.Sift the flour,baking powder,cocoa and flour together.Fold in flour alternatively with milk.Bake at 175 degrees for 30-35 minutes.Cool and ice with chocolate butter icing.
CHOCOLATE BUTTER ICING
8 oz butter
24 oz icing sugar
2 heaped tblsp. cocoa powder
1 tblsp.milk
brandy or rum
vanilla essence 1 tsp.
Beat all the ingredients together.Keep in the fridge for some time and ice the cake.
Note:The amount of cocoa powder can be increased according to one’s own desire .Take care not to make it bitter,so try adding little by little.