Dark Cake
Dark Cake
Ingredients:
- Cocoa Powder 2/3 cup
- Coffee 1 cup
- Cayenne 1 pinch
- Butter 1/3 cup
- Olive Oil 1/3 cup
- Sugar 1- 2/3 cup
- Eggs 3
- Milk 1/3 cup
- Lemon Juice half lemon
- Vanilla Essence 1 tsp
- Flour 2 cup
- Corn Flour 1 tbsp
- Salt 1 tsp
- Baking Soda 1 ¼ tsp
- Baking Powder ½ tsp
For the Frosting:
- Butter ½ cup
- Dark Cocoa 1 cup
- Icing Sugar 4 ½ cups
- Milk 1 cup
- Lemon Juice few drops
- Vanilla Essence 2 tsp
Method :
- To make the buttermilk, add lemon juice to the milk and let stand. In a small bowl, dissolve cocoa powder and cayenne with hot water and coffee and set aside. Beat butter, add oil and sugar until well combined. Add eggs and beat until light and creamy. Slowly add in coffee/cocoa mixture, buttermilk and vanilla essence and beat until batter is smooth. Sift flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder. Add dry ingredients to wet and beat on low speed until all ingredients are well combined. Grease and line two cake pans with butter paper. Sprinkle with cocoa powder, shaking out excess. Pour batter evenly between two pans and place in center of oven. Bake at 180 degrees C for 30-40 minutes or until tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean. You may need to rotate cake pans half way through. Cool pans on wire racks for ten minutes then carefully invert out of pan onto rack to cool further. To Prepare the Frosting, add few drops of lemon juice to milk and let stand to make buttermilk. Beat butter until smooth. Add sifted icing sugar and cocoa powder mixture along with buttermilk and vanilla essence and beat until smooth and creamy. Add more buttermilk or plain milk if frosting is too thick. Frost the cake with it and serve.
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