Celebrate Chocolate Cake Day

 

All purpose flour - 1 3/4 cup

sugar - 2 cup
baking cocoa powder - 3/4 cup
baking soda - 1 1/2 tsp
baking powder - 1 1/2 tsp
salt - 1 tsp
egg - 2
milk - 1 cup
vegetable oil - 1/2 cup
vanilla extract - 2 tsp
boiling water - 1 cup

Baking Idea: substitute 2 nestle drinking chocolate powder mixed with 1/4 cup chocolate chips and 2tsp instant coffee. This mixture helps give it a different delicious taste. 

Preheat oven to 350 deg F.
Grease and flour 2 pans of 9 inch size.
Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, salt, together. Sift twice to get a fluffy porous cake. Put it in a big mixing bowl.

Using an electric mixer beat the milk, egg, sugar, vanilla, vegetable oil, (chocolate chips if any)  for a minute. Add it to the dry ingredients in the big mixing bowl.  Mix well.
Bring 1 cup water to boil. Pour in to the mixing bowl. Mix well.
Pour in to baking pans and bake for 40 - 45 mins.
Let cool completely before slicing.
Time to eat cake. 


Note:
This recipe will make 2 cakes of 9x9 inch squares or two 9 inch round cakes or one 9 x13 cake.
Before baking,  the cake batter may seem to be very thin and runny. But the cake will come out perfect. 

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Serve the cake iced ... any chocolate icing will do. If you choose not to ice then perhaps you may want to pierce the top of the cake and pour a mix of 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup water over the top of the cake. This will help keep the cake moist and delicious 

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