Chocolate Cake...the ultimate.A slice of good Chocolate Cake with a glass of cold milk....where does that figure??
Up there with my favourites.And if the recipe is a long kept secret?Couldn't be any better.Now that I've discovered that we have traces of blue blood running through our veins-According to sweet child o'mine-"Thank god we are not from the Chandravanshi Clans".(He's hooked to the Mytho-thrillers "The Immortals of Meluha" and "The secrets of the Nagas"..eagerly awaiting the third part of the trilogy.)
I wish I could say that this recipe is a long kept secret from the culinary bedrock of our family tree...No I cannot.We do have some secrets,but they are not to do with cakes.This cake is a secret...brought out from deep down ...from the back of a Trader Joe's cocoa powder pack!
My god I feel so light ,now that the secret is finally out of the bag.
I can recall an episode of friends where Monica frantically searches for the recipe of chocolate chip cookies that Phoebe's grandma used to make,which had been lost due to her death....and then they realised that it came from the back of a chocolate chip bag!
I don't take full claim to being the drama queen.
So that title is up for grabs now...
To FROST or not to FROST...that's the question...
luckily I made two...rather divided the batter into two pans.
That was easy!
One frosted and one not frosted.
here goes....
for the
Chocolate Cake-Trader Joe's style...
you need
5 eggs
12 oz or 340 mils oil or you can use butter
680 gms or 3 cups sugar
175 gms cocoa powder
1 tbsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
600 mils 0r 3 cups yogurt
3 1/2 cups or 425 gms flour
1 tsp vanilla essence
Before you begin this exercise in self restraint(sic),Switch on the oven at 180C or 350 F.
The eggs....look like butterflies...well the yolks broke...no harm in letting your imagination run wild.Almost like cloaks behind a "sunny" Count Dracula.
I could have used the beater,but I was following instructions-the recipe says mix every thing in one go.A piece of advice....beat the liquids first,its takes less effort to do the final mixing.
That's the sugar....
Now the flour ,to which the baking soda and salt has been added.It was all sifted on a sheet of news paper and the put into this bowl.So the moral of the story..SIFT.
Into this add the cocoa,my container of Trader Joe's Unsweetened Cocoa is long gone,so I used Cadbury's.Use whatever brand,just ensure that it is unsweetened.
To this add the 340 mils of vegetable oil and the vanilla.And now the dirty work.But some one's got to do it....The blending used a lot of muscle power.
These are the two tins,oiled and floured,waiting with their jaws wide open.BTW,if you've seen Peter Jacksons' KING KONG....how did the dinosaur die?When Kong pulled his jaws apart....logic???Picture this....
Now the thick and gluey batter ,evenly divided,and levelled.
The frosting getting ready....for the yummilicious frosting....click on http://baketitude.blogspot.com/2011/10/just-desserts-easy-chocolate-fudge.html
and get elevated.
The cake no.1 split in the middle,I poured a little milk to make it moist"er"...totally not needed.....
Centre slathered with the frosting.
Also at http://baketitude.blogspot.com/2011/10/just-desserts-easy-chocolate-fudge.html
That was cake no.2...I thought I'll make some pattern ,but sweet child o'mine came and cut slices out of it before I could say BOO!.
See the texture....and like fine wine this cake improves with age.Don't put it in a time capsule...your descendents wont thank you for it.
So that was plain Chocolate Cake-Trader Joe's style...best had with a glass of cold milk.Manna from heaven.
Yup,the flowers were pretty...so I thought I'd share them with you also.
I'm probably the only idiot who bakes a cake for her own birthday...Hubby dear couldn't have gone into all that trouble of buying a cake,so I had to cut a Huge bar of chocolate with a tea light balanced on it.
And the chocolate was divided into ...you guessed it TWO!One for each of the boys...trying to lighten my exercise schedule.
Men!
And then they ask why??
Well I'll change the question...
So what are you baking today???
Up there with my favourites.And if the recipe is a long kept secret?Couldn't be any better.Now that I've discovered that we have traces of blue blood running through our veins-According to sweet child o'mine-"Thank god we are not from the Chandravanshi Clans".(He's hooked to the Mytho-thrillers "The Immortals of Meluha" and "The secrets of the Nagas"..eagerly awaiting the third part of the trilogy.)
I wish I could say that this recipe is a long kept secret from the culinary bedrock of our family tree...No I cannot.We do have some secrets,but they are not to do with cakes.This cake is a secret...brought out from deep down ...from the back of a Trader Joe's cocoa powder pack!
My god I feel so light ,now that the secret is finally out of the bag.
I can recall an episode of friends where Monica frantically searches for the recipe of chocolate chip cookies that Phoebe's grandma used to make,which had been lost due to her death....and then they realised that it came from the back of a chocolate chip bag!
I don't take full claim to being the drama queen.
So that title is up for grabs now...
To FROST or not to FROST...that's the question...
luckily I made two...rather divided the batter into two pans.
That was easy!
One frosted and one not frosted.
here goes....
for the
Chocolate Cake-Trader Joe's style...
you need
5 eggs
12 oz or 340 mils oil or you can use butter
680 gms or 3 cups sugar
175 gms cocoa powder
1 tbsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
600 mils 0r 3 cups yogurt
3 1/2 cups or 425 gms flour
1 tsp vanilla essence
Before you begin this exercise in self restraint(sic),Switch on the oven at 180C or 350 F.
The eggs....look like butterflies...well the yolks broke...no harm in letting your imagination run wild.Almost like cloaks behind a "sunny" Count Dracula.
I could have used the beater,but I was following instructions-the recipe says mix every thing in one go.A piece of advice....beat the liquids first,its takes less effort to do the final mixing.
To this add the yogurt,3 cups full.If by chance you want to halve the recipe,reduce the yogurt by 2 tablespoons and add one egg.To this ratio now divide by 2.It is difficult to divide 5 eggs by 2 so this way you get a dividable recipe.
and get elevated.
Also at http://baketitude.blogspot.com/2011/10/just-desserts-easy-chocolate-fudge.html
I'm probably the only idiot who bakes a cake for her own birthday...Hubby dear couldn't have gone into all that trouble of buying a cake,so I had to cut a Huge bar of chocolate with a tea light balanced on it.
And the chocolate was divided into ...you guessed it TWO!One for each of the boys...trying to lighten my exercise schedule.
Men!
And then they ask why??
Well I'll change the question...
So what are you baking today???
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