Chocolate Cake

My kids loves this cake, am making this every week for them.If u like add walnut to it. It  tastes great with vanilla ice cream
Having a tasty home made cake is really awesome!

Ingredients (measuring cup used, 1 cup = 250 ml).

Ingredients For The Cake:

2 cups plain flour or maida or all purpose flour
2 eggs
2 cups sugar ( I used powdered sugar)
1 cup water
½ tsp salt
½ cup unsalted butter
¼ cup cocoa powder( I used Cadbury’s Cocoa powder)
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract

Ingredients For The Chocolate Icing:

½ cup unsalted butter
6 tbsp whole milk or 6 tbsp cream
¼ cup cocoa powder
10 to 12 tbsp icing sugar-powder Or add sugar as required
1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions To Make The Cake:

Grease a baking pan with or baking bowl with butter.

In a bowl, sift the flour, sugar ,salt ,egg ,baking powder and vanilla extract together.

In a saucepan, heat water with ½ cup butter, and ¼ cup cocoa. Whisk it and bring just to a boil over medium heat, stirring continuously.
Pour the hot chocolate mixture into the flour mixture and mix all the Ingredients.

You could use your spatula to blend it smoothly or use your electric blender. The mixture should be smooth without any lumps.

Pour into the greased baking tin.
Now bake it in the oven at 350 degree F (approx 177 degree C) for 35 minutes.

You could also bake it in a pressure cooker, by adding sand or salt .place the vessel on it close the lid without whistle,  bake for 30-35 mins on a low flame.

While it is still hot poke a lot of holes in it using a fork or a tooth pick. I used a fork. Make a lot of holes as this is where the icing seeps into and they cannot be seen once the icing has been cooled.

To Make The Icing:

In a saucepan, melt ½ cup butter .

Add the milk and ¼ cup cocoa and bring to a boil.

Remove from heat and stir in powdered sugar and 1 tsp vanilla. Blend until smooth.

Topping The Cake With The Icing:

Pour the icing over the hot cake. Spread it evenly on the cake with a spatula or back of the spoon.

Cool the Chocolate Cake and then have it.