CAKES

Microwave Chocolate Cake





                    Ingredients

                     Flour 3/4 cup
                     Sugar 1/2 cup
                     Oil 1/4 cup
                     Eggs 2
                     Baking Powder 1 1/2 Tbsp
                     Vanilla Essense 1 tsp
                     Cocoa powder 1 1/2 Tbsp
                     Warm water 1/4 cup
                     A pinch of Salt

                     Method

                        1.Sift the Dry Ingredients (maida and baking powder).
                        2.Dissolve the cocoa in the warm water.
                        3.Beat the eggs and sugar until well blended and creamed.
                        4.Add the oil, vanilla essense and warm water (mixed with cocoa
                          powder) and mix well. Finally add the flour and fold into the egg
                          mixture.
                        5.Grease a cake tin and pour this batter into it.
                        6.Microwave this cake for 5 minutes on high.
                        7.Cool it and decorate with cofee icing or your choice.

                    Coffee icing

                     Cream together 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup of icing sugar. Once well blended
                     add 2 tsp of strong coffee decoction and beat again. You can either cut the
                     cake into 2 and spread the mixture and sandwich the two pieces again or
                     spread all over the cake.

                     Hope everyone likes this cake. Do try it out. Any suggestions and
                     comments are welcome.