Chocolate cake recipe


Dry Cake series- I share my next recipe for chocolate gooey sponge cake.
It is a very delicious cake that can easily make in an OTG or in a Pressure Cooker with simple ingredients like butter, sugar, flour, baking powder, and chocolate.

Serving- 1 loaf of cake

Ingredients
  1. 50 gm- melted or at room temperature butter
  2. 1/2 cup or 40gm-powdered sugar
  3. 1 cup- maida/flour or 1/2 cup of maida and 1/2 cup of wheat flour
  4. 1 tsp baking powder
  5. 1/2 tsp baking soda
  6. 1 cup milk (lukewarm)
  7. Milk powder- 25 gm
  8. 3 tbsp cocoa powder
  9. 100 to 150 gm semi-sweet chocolate melted at double boiler or in microwave
  10. Tutti-frutti and choco chips
How To Make(Pressure Cooker)
  1. Take pressure cooker with broad mouth. Put salt in a cooker and spread in a bottom and keep wire rack on salt and then keep cooker on a low flame. This is called preheat method.
  2. Now line the cake tin and keep aside.
  3. In mixing bowl mix butter and sugar and mix in one flow with wooden spoon or whisker or a hand blender mix till it creamy and fluffy, it takes around 3 to 5 minute.
  4. Now sieve all dry ingredients maida, sugar, baking powder, soda, milk powder and cocoa powder.
  5. Now mix dry ingredients in wet ingredients in small batches and add melted chocolate and mix very lightly then add lukewarm milk.
  6. Finally, add tutti-frutti or choco chips in a cake mix.
  7. Now pour mixture into cake tin and carefully keep in a cooker as it too hot and close the lid without gasket and whistle for 20 minutes on low flame.
  8. After 20 minutes, check the cake by inserting a toothpick or a clean knife inside the cake, if it comes clean it is done well otherwise keep again for 5 to 10 minutes.
  9. After the cake is done, cool it on a room temperature and enjoy the cake.
How To Make(OTG)
  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees for at least 10 minutes in baking mode.
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  7. Keep cake tin on wire rack for 20 to 25 minutes if you want the cake to become browner from upside than keep 5 minutes more.
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Note

Flour or maida can also be used to coat tutti-frutti or choco chip or any other fruit and nuts before adding to batters, thus preventing them from sinking to the bottom of the pan when packed.

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