Chocolate cake with Chocolate Fondue Icing

Thought of making my 2nd wedding anniversary special... Whats better than making a cake with chocolate which is favourite for both of us.

I thought of making the cake more healthy..so used wheat flour instead of maida (all purpose flour).

The cake turned out to be super soft... :)

Ingredients:

Wheat Flour - 2 cup
Baking Powder - 2 tbsp
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
Curd - 3/4 cup
Butter - 2 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Choco powder - 4 tbsp
Vanilla Essence - 2 tsp
Sugar beads - 1/2 cup (for decoration)
Grated chocolate - 1 cup

White Icing:
Icing sugar - 2 tbsp
Whipped Cream - 1 cup

Chocolate Fondue Icing:
Dark unsweetened chocolate - 100 gms
Butter - 1/2 cup
Cream - 2 tbsp
Milk - 2 tbsp

Method:

Grease the cake pan with oil. Dust it with Maida slightly. Mix all the ingredients for the cake and mix well.

Pour it into the cake pan. The cake mix should fill only 3/4th of the pan so that there is space for the cake to rise.

Pre heat the microwave oven at 180 degrees. Place the cake pan in the microwave and bake it in convention mode for approx 15 mins.

Later remove the cake from microwave and allow it to cool. Check whether the cake is done using a toothpick. The toothpick should come out clean when inserted into cake and removed.

Mix the whipped cream and icing sugar for the white icing.

Melt the chocolate using double boiler method. Once the chocolate is melted, add butter and cream to it. Add little milk so that it become liquidy in texture so that it is easy to be poured on the cake.

Once the cake is cooled, cut it into half horizontally. Apply the white icing on one half of the cake. Place the second half on top of it. Apply the icing properly so that there are no gaps between the cakes.

Pour the chocolate icing on the cake properly covering the entire cake.

Allow it to cool down in the refrigerator for around 30 mins. Once the chocolate icing thickens, decorate it with grated chocolate and sugar beads or with your own designs.

Enjoy the healthy cake and a home made one.... :)

My earlier trial of Chocolate Fondue cake.. :)