Decadant chocolate sponge with my Homemade Nutella-flavoured whipped cream and grated chocolate sprinkled on top for perfection. Try this no-fail recipe of Chocolate cake and I'm sure this will become your staple recipe.
INGREDIENTS:
For The Chocolate Sponge:
- Curd- 3/4 cup
- Sugar- 3/4 cup
- Oil- 1/2 cup
- Refined flour- 1.25 cups
- Unsweetened Cocoa powder- 1/4 cup
- Salt- a pinch
- Baking powder- 1 tsp
- Baking soda- 1/4 tsp
- Milk- 1/4 tsp
For Decoration:
- Sugar syrup- (1cup water + 2 tbsp sugar)
- Sweetened Whipped cream- 1 cup (chilled)
- Homemade Nutella- 2 tbsp
- Grated Chocolate
PROCEDURE:
For The Chocolate Sponge:
- Preheat a kadhai with salt, let it get hot till we get the cake batter ready.
- In a large mixing bowl, add curd and sugar, whisk it well until the sugar gets dissolved.
- Now add oil to it. I'm using sunflower oil here, you can even use rice-bran oil too. Avoid using oils like mustard oil, or peanut oils as they have a strong smell. In short, you can use any oil which has no smell of its own.
- Mix the oil well, till it turns to a homogenous mixture.
- Cover it and let it rest for 10 mins.
- Meanwhile, sift all the dry ingredients using a sieve. Mix lightly using a spatula.
- Add half of the dry mix to the wet mix, Mix using cut and fold method. Now add rest of the ingredients, Mix gently using cut and fold method.
- Now add milk to it and mix. Mix only until all the flour pockets have disappeared.
- Pour this batter in a greased and lined tin and bake it for 20-25 mins on medium flame.
- After baking let it cool down completely.
- Cut the cake into two layers.
The Assembly
- Drizzle sugar syrup on the cake layers evenly.
- For the nutella-flavoured cream- add nutella to the cream while whipping. You can add more according to your preference.
- Spread the nutella-whipped cream on the first layer, place the second layer and cover the entire cake with a thick layer of cream.
- Refrigerate the cake for 10 mins, now level out the cake and frost the cake evenly with another layer.
- Add grated chocolate on top.
- Your delicious Chocolate pastry is ready. Serve chilled.
