Chocolate Cake

I know this is every ones favourite recipe! That soft cake with melting chocolate frosting will surely make your mouth watering! Why don't you try it at home... Its really easy and hardly needs any effort... I made this in microwave oven...

Ingredients for Cake

1. Maida/All Purpose Flour  --  1 cup
2. Cocoa Powder   --  2 tablespoon
3. Eggs  --  2
4. Sugar  --  1 cup
5. 1/2 cup Oil
6. 1 teaspoon baking powder
7. Salt a pinch

Ingredients to make the cake moist

1. Instant Coffee Powder  --  1tsp
2. Water 1 cup
3. Sugar  --  1tsp

Ingredients for frosting

1. Icing Sugar  --  1 and half cup
2. 1/4 cup cocoa powder
3. 50 gms butter kept in room temperature.

Method:

• Sieve together the flour, cocoa powder and then baking powder in a bowl.
• In a separate bowl beat together eggs, sugar, salt and oil. You can do this in a mixer.
• Now add the vanilla essence and beat well.
• Slowly add the flour mixture and fold in. Do not stir vigorously. Fold in the flour slowly without any lumps.
• Preheat the microwave oven for 3 minutes
• Now grease the microwave safe dish with some oil and sprinkle flour round the safe dish.
• Now pour the batter in the microwave safe dish and bake it for about 5 min. Do check after 3 minutes.
• My was ready within 4 min.
• Let the cake cool naturally in the oven itself.
• Lets make the frosting. Before that Boil the 1 cup water with sugar and instant coffee powder and keep aside to cool.
• Now Sieve cocoa powder kept for frosting with icing sugar/powdered sugar into bowl.
• Chop butter into small pieces and add to that bowl.
• Add one tablespoon of hot water and mix it well till smooth glossy paste.
• Remove the cake from the safe dish and slice it from centre into two. Now you have two round cakes in front of you.
• Now sprinkle some coffee over both the cake to make it moist.
• Now add some frosting and level it in one half of the cake.
• Keep the other half over it and spread the frosting over the cake evenly.
• Cool the cake in before serving
• I had sprinkled some grated chocolate over the cake for garnishing..

Carrot and Dates Cake

Cakes! are the ones that I always want to perfect with! At first I used to make cake and throw it out to the garden... everything was good but the baking is where I used to fail. I bake my cake in microwave because its time saving... Microwave is only best for certain cakes but not for all types for example you can make carrot cake, chocolate cake, plum cakes in microwave. So here it is at last my very successful cake in microwave.

Ingredients:

1. Maida/All purpose flour  --  1 cup
2. Carrot  --  grated 1 cup
3. Dates  --  chopped 1 cup
4. Sugar  --  1 cup
5. Baking Powder  --  1tsp
6. Eggs  --  2 I used 1 whole egg and 1 egg white only
7. Oil   --  1/2 cup
8. Vanilla Essence  --  1 tsp
9. Salt a pinch

Caramel Syrup:

1. Sugar  --  3/4 cup
2. Water  --  1/2 cup

Method:

• In a pan add sugar and let it brown do not stir at this time and then when all the sugar is browned add water and stir well till its mixed nicely and let it cool.
• Now sieve flour and baking powder together and keep aside.
• Beat together eggs with sugar, vanilla essence. Now add oil and mix nicely.You can do this in a mixer.
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• Now add the flour and fold in nicely. Mix it nicely there should not be any lumps.
• Mix 1 tablespoon of maida to grated carrot and dates. This step is important it wont allow the carrots and dates to settle at bottom.
• Now add this carrot and dates mix to the batter and also add the caramel syrup to this batter and mix well.
• Now grease the tray with some oil and sprinkle some flour in the tray.
• Now  pour the batter in the tray it should be just half the tray.
• Now preheat the microwave for 3-4 min.
• Bake the cake for 5 min. Mine was ready in 4 min. Check it by pricking cake with a tooth pick when you remove it the toothpick should be clean that is cake should not stick to toothpick.
• Let the cake cool and then remove it, cut it and serve after it cools. I was in a hurry had no patience so I had to cut the cake before it cooled...