# Easy Chocolate Cake Recipe

This easy chocolate cake recipe will certainly get the message through.

- Total time: 50 min
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2 cups Maida (All-purpose flour) sifted
- 0.75 cups Cocoa powder
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 1.5 tsp Baking powder
- 0.5 tsp Namak (Salt)
- 1 tbs Instant coffee
- 3 Anday (Eggs)
- 1 cup Caster sugar
- 0.5 cup Brown sugar
- 0.75 cup Yogurt
- 0.5 tbs Vanilla essence
- 0.5 cup Vegetable Oil
- 1 Cup Doodh (Milk) warm
- 2.5 tbs Sugar
- 3 tbs Hot water
- 200 ml Cream
- 1 tbs Makhan (Butter)
- 300 g Milk chocolate
- 0.5 tbs Instant coffee
- 1 tbs Warm water

## Instructions

1. In a bowl, add all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, salt, instant coffee and whisk well & set aside.
2. In another bowl, add eggs, caster sugar, brown sugar and beat well.
3. Add yogurt, vanilla essence, vegetable oil, milk and beat for 1 minute.
4. Gradually add dry ingredients and beat well after each addition.
5. Grease a 10” round baking pan with cooking oil and place butter paper.
6. Pour batter into prepared baking pan and bake in preheated oven at 170°C for 40-45 minutes.
7. Remove the cake from the oven and run a knife around the edges to loosen them from the sides of the pan.
8. Transfer the cake to a wire rack and let it cool.
9. In a bowl, add sugar, hot water and mix until sugar is dissolved & set aside.
10. In a double boiler, add cream, butter, milk chocolate and let it melt.
11. In warm water, add instant coffee and mix well.
12. Add dissolved coffee and whisk well.
13. With a cake knife, horizontally cut the top layer of the cake.
14. Pour prepared chocolate ganache all over the cake and let it set for 30 minutes.
15. Decorate and cut into desired slices and serve!

## Equipment

- whisk
- hand mixer
- 10 inch round pan
- oven
- knife
- wire rack
- pastry bag
- double boiler

## Source

- Original video: https://youtu.be/Ae5FJUekGVU?si=2BzLbPivQ0i8GpFT
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/5da7adf3-0f61-45b0-8bbe-4f48d8a02fd2
- Extracted: 2025-01-28

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