Monday, September 26, 2011

Vanilla-Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Frosting



It has been more than 3 months now since I have posted anything here,its just because of mere laziness.Summer activities with my preschooler was making me tired, so I prefered to relax during the free time doing nothing.My boy has turned 3 last week and I baked a cake which everyone loved,so I thought I should share the recipe to my friends too.I made this cake for his party so it was quite big, since I have made this cake (in a small tin )several times this recipe is for a a smaller cake.

Ingredients

Flour - 1 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Unsalted Butter(softenend) - 1/2 cup
Egg -2
Baking powder - 1tsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
Cocoa powder - 2 tbs
Milk - 1/2 cup


For frosting


Double cream - 100ml
Dark chocolate - 100gm
Butter - 25gm
Honey - 3/4 tbs

Preparation


Preheat the oven to 180 degree centigrade.
In a mixing bowl beat butter and sugar together.Crack the eggs in and beat again.Add flour,baking powder,baking soda,vanilla extract and beat again.Add milk slowly and beat until milk is poured completely.Now pour 3/4 th the white batter to the cake tin.Add 2 tbs of cocoa powder to the remaining batter and mix well.Pour the cocoa batter to white batter and incoporate it into white one,but dont mix it completely.Bake the cake for 35 - 40 mins until the tooth pick inserted comes out clean.Let the cake cool down.

For frosting
In a saucepan pour the double cream and jsut before it starts to boil turn off the flame and add chocolate,butter and honey and mix .Spread the frosting to the cake.If you like to decorate the cake you can sprinkle chocolate strands, or shavings or grated chocolate on the top of the frosting.

22 comments:

Sandhya Hariharan said...

OMG... this is soo well presented and done...

thank u for dropping by my space....

Cheers
Sandhya's Kitchen

Neetz said...

what perfection!!! simply awesome!!!

Sailaja said...

Very well made cake.. Too good

Treat and Trick said...

Beautifully decorated and fabulous!

Nitha said...

The cake looks awesome..

Suja Manoj said...

How r u dear..Welcome back
Awesome cake,beautifully decorated

Priya Suresh said...

Well decorated beautiful cake, awesome!

Tina said...

beautiful cake..

ജയരാജ്‌മുരുക്കുംപുഴ said...

aashamsakal.............

Deepa. R. Krishnan said...

Waw..Vineetha..Hats off for your Patience..!!! Cake looks divine after that decor..

Julie said...

Very well prepared cake..soft n moist..U have lovely collection of recipes,do keep posting atleast once a month,dear!!
just a suggestion :-))
Thanx for visiting my blog,
glad to follow you :-)

Swathi said...

Belated birthday wishes to your Prince. vanilla chocolate cake looks awesome. Nice you did very well.

Jayanthy Kumaran said...

wow..sounds super tempting..nice try dear..:)
Tasty Appetite

Roshu said...

Katrina cake...such a beautiful one!!!first time here....urz is such a wonderful blog...happy to follow u dear!!!!

Luv,
Roshu
http://roshusworldoftastes.blogspot.com/

Prema said...

wow wonderful deco and yummy cake...luks delicious...

My Kitchen Antics said...

that looks amazing...ure such a pro with the decorating good job :)

Sarah Naveen said...

eeshoye ithu nalla perfect ayittu cheythallodo madichi!!!
belated birthday wishes to smart boy ;)...

Rinku Naveen said...

Hi Vineetha
That's a wonderful cake. Birthday wishes to your little one.
Thanks for dropping by and for the wonderful comments.
Happy to follow u

Namitha said...

You have become a pro Vini :-) Hope Lil A loved it :-)

Ramya said...

wow...very beautiful cake. belated bday wishes to your kiddo..Where are you in UK? Thanks for stopping by my blog

Jayanthy Kumaran said...
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Kaveri Venkatesh said...

A delicious and yummy Cake...glad to follow you