Bidisha's Corner

Saturday 20 December 2014

Homemade Dry Fruit Chocolate Cake.

Its Christmas time, and cakes are must. Lets try out with a rich dry fruit chocolate cake.

HOME MADE DRY FRUIT CAKE
INGREDIENTS:
Maida (1 cup).
Cocoa powder (2 TBs).
Eggs 4/1 cup.
Milk (1/2 cup).
Sugar (1 cup).
Vanilla essence (1/2 Tsp).
Baking powder (1 TBs).
Oil (3/4 cup), Butter (1 cube).
Various types of dryfruits like, raisins, cashew nuts, almonds, nutmeg, dates, plum etc (1 cup).

PROCEDURE:
Grind sugar to powder and add oil and butter to it and grind well, until it forms a neat soft paste like, and sugar melts in oil.
Now add eggs and grind to paste.
Add milk, cocoa powder, vanilla essence and grind well, till all ingredients mixes up well.
Now add baking powder to maida and mix well and keep aside in a big bowl.
Add above prepared batter to the maida and baking powder and mix well so that all ingredients mixes up well and no lumps are formed.
Keep it untouched for 15-20 minutes.
Meanwhile pre-heat oven at 250 degrees for 20 minutes.
Now grease baking tray and pour in the whole batter to it, garnish at top and place the tray inside the oven and allow it to bake at180-200 degrees for 1st 30 minutes in lower heat then 15 minutes on both sides.
Slowly insert a knife and check whether its cooked or not, if anything sticks to knife then its raw inside, more baking is required, if nothings sticks to knife out cake is baked.
Allow it to be inside the  off oven for 15 more minutes, then slowly remove from oven and happily bid farewell to running year and welcome the new one.

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