Chocolate Cake

Ingredients for  Chocolate Frosting:

Sl. No.	Ingredients	Quantity	Style
1	Sweet chocolate chips	1 cup
2	Butter	1 cup
3	Sugar	1/2 cup
4	Vanilla extract	1/2 tablespoon
5	Cream (half-and-half)	1/2 cup

Ingredients for Chocolate Cake:

Sl. No.	Ingredients	Quantity	Style
1	All Purpose Flour	2 cup
2	Sugar	1/2 cup
3	Backing powder	1 tablespoon
4	Butter	1 cup
5	Egg	3
6	Vanilla extract	1 tablespoon
7	Salt	Pinch
8	Milk	1/2 cup
9	Baking soda	1/2 tablespoon
10	Coco powder	1/2 cup

Chocolate Frosting Preparation:

1. Combine the chocolate chips, cream (half-and-half) and butter in a heavy saucepan.
2. Don't heat chocolate directly. Keep the chocolate in the bowl and place the bowl on the hot water and stirring constantly, until chocolate chips melt. Add butter and mix it, then remove from heat.
3. You can add melt chocolate directly to the Vanilla frosting, to prepare the Chocolate Frosting. Otherwise follow the below steps.
4. Gradually add the sugar and cream (half-and-half) in the melt chocolate, stirring well.
5. Set the saucepan in a large bowl filled with ice, and mix the cream properly until frosting begins to lose its gloss and holds its shape.

Chocolate Cake Preparation:

1. Take a bowl, add all propose flour, backing powder, baking soda,salt & it mix well.

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2. Add sugar, oil, warm milk to the dry ingredients and mix well.
3. Add eggs and make a very smooth batter.

4. Now add vanilla essence, coco powder and mix it well.

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5. Grease a cake tin with oil/butter and add the batter to it.

6. Initially keep empty oven at 450 degree F for the 3 minutes, then stop it. Put the cake tin with batter and start the oven at 350 degree F for the 20 minutes. Then reduce the temperature to 200 degree F for the last 10 minutes.    

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7. At the end, check the cake by injecting knife. It should come out cleanly, then cake is ready. Switch off the oven and keep the cake in oven for the next 5 minutes.

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8. Take it out the cake, let it be coll at room temperature.

Decorate the cake as you want