Chocolate Almond Cake

choco-almond-cake

Ingredients :

  • 1 cup wheat flour  ( 250 ml )
  • ½ cup powdered sugar
  • ⅓ cup sunflower oil / corn oil / rice bran oil or  ¼ cup pure ghee
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 4 tsp. cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp. coffee powder
  • 3tbsp. water
  • a pinch of salt
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1/4 cup almond pieces

Recipe:

  1.  Measure wheat flour after sieving it with all purpose flour sieve.
  2.  Add cocoa powder and baking soda to wheat flour and sieve it three times. Keep aside this mixture.
  3.  Sieve powdered sugar.
  4.  Dry roast the almond pieces at low flame.
  5.  Boil coffee powder and 3 tbsp. water together for 2-3 minutes. Cool this mixture at room temperature.
  6.  Take a mixing bowl , mix sunflower oil and powdered sugar  and beat it until become light and fluffy.
  7.  Add a pinch of salt and mix it well, then add coffee mixture and  3/4 cup of milk and beat it.
  8.  Add wheat flour mixture into it by 2-3 parts, beat all the mixture and set the batter at dropping consistency by adding remaining 1/4 cup of milk.
  9.  Add almond pieces into batter and mix them.
  10.  Preheat the oven at 100 degrees Celsius.
  11. Grease the mold with ghee and dust the wheat flour. Pour the mixture into the mold and tap the mold.Bake it for 40-45 minutes at 100 degrees Celsius.
  12. Cool the cake at room temperature
  13. Now  cover  the cake with chocolate sauce and garnish it with almond.
  14. Now it is ready to serve.
  15. For health benefits use it on the same day, don’t eat it stale.

Chocolate sauce :

Ingredients :

  • 1 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 3 tbsp podered sugar
  • 3 tbsp cream
  • 3 tbsp water 
  • 1 tsp corn flour
  • 1 tbsp pure ghee

Recipe:

  • Add all the ingredients except pure ghee and boil it for 2 to 3 minutes ,stir it continuously.
  • Now add pure ghee stir it and off the flame.
  • Chocolate sauce is now ready.
  • Cool it at room temperature.­

 

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