“Buttercream-Chocolate Cake”

“Buttercream-Chocolate Cake” Recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Continental | Recipe Category: Dessert
Prep Time: 3 hour    | Cook time: 40 mins     | Serves: 3-4

Ingredients:

3 teaspoon chocolate syrup (for decoration)

1 Dark chocolate (for decoration)

1 white chocolate (for decoration)

2 teaspoon sugar syrup
1 cup salt

Cake batter Ingredients:

3/4 cup maida (all-purpose flour)

¼ cup cocoa powder

3 large teaspoon powder sugar

5 egg(at room tem)

2 teaspoon melted butter

1 teaspoon  vanilla essence

Chocolate buttercream Ingredients:

100 g amul butter(at room tem)

¼ cup cocoa powder

½ cup icing powder sugar(very fine)

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1 teaspoon milk

½ teaspoon chocolate syrup(for rich flavor)

Kitchen utensils required:

• 6 bowls (I prefer: Borosil Mixing Bowl)
• 1 Grater (I prefer: Pearl Store Easy Grater)
• 1 cooker (I prefer: Prestige Popular Aluminum Pressure Cooker, 3 Liters)                                    OR
• 1 Microwave ( I prefer: IFB 25DGSC1 25-Litre 1400-Watt Convection Microwave Oven )

•   1 Electric hand blender (I prefer: Orpat OHM 207 Hand Blender)

• 1 Silicone Spatula (I prefer: Rena Germany-Combo-Silicon Spatula)

• 1 Water jug
•  1 wire stand
• 1 sheet of butter paper

                                          Step by step procedure:

Prepare sponge cake

Make Wipped Egg.

Step-1 Take bowl and add egg white into the bowl. 

Step-2 Now beat egg white with electric blender up to 10 minutes until you get ribbon stage of egg.

Step-3 Take another bowl and add egg yolk, powder sugar then mix both.

Step-4 Now transfer this into beaten egg having ribbon stage. Mix everything very well.

Step-5 Take another bowl, add maida, vanilla essence and melted butter. Mix them very well.

Step-6 Transfer this mix into beaten egg and egg yolk mix of step-4.

Step-7 Take baking tin, grease it with oil and put butter paper at bottom.

Step-8 Transfer the mix into that baking tin. 

Step-9 Preheat cooker

Heat cooker and add salt, wire rack into the cooker. Now cover the cooker with lid (without weasel) and let it preheat for 5 minutes on medium flame.

Step-10 Now put baking tin into the cooker and close the cooker with lid. Let it cook it for 40-50 minutes on low flame. When cooked take it out carefully, without burning your hand. Let it cool first and then take it out on a plate.

Prepare chocolate buttercream

Take deep bowl now add butter (at room tem), very fine sugar(icing sugar),milk, vanilla essence and cocoa powder. Use electric hand blender or whisk it till u get nice light and fluffy cream. Now add chocolate syrup and mix it. Chocolate buttercream is ready for the cake.

Prepare chocolate cake

Step-1 When your sponge cake is cooled down then cut it into two or three parts horizontally.

Step-2 Now apply sugar syrup on upper surface of all the parts.

Step-3 Take 1 spoon of  buttercream and apply it on cake stand. Now put cake’s 3rd part on cake stand. To the same part nicely apply lots of butter cream.

Step-4 Now take cake’s second part and put it on the 3^rd part on which you have applied buttercream. 

Step-5 Now nicely apply lots of  chocolate butter cream on cake 2^nd part. 

Step-6 Now take 1^st part and put it on 2^nd part. Now apply nicely buttercream on the first part.

Step-7 Take lots of  buttercream and apply it at all sides to cover all sides of the cake by just rotating it gently.

Time to decorate the cake

Put your cake in a steel plate or on aluminum plate. You can decorate cake with your choice. In this cake decorate it by chocolate syrup and then put lots of grated dark chocolate and white chocolate (for extra flavor and look). Now take piping bag with star nozzle and put lots of cream in that bag. Now decorate the top of the cake with cream. You can also prepare chocolate cream and then decorate it. Take some grated dark chocolates and put it on all sides of cake.

Tips:

•  Don’t whisk the cream for very long time.
• Use the  buttercream immediately when prepared. 
• Use cooker or microwave to prepare sponge cake.If using microwave then first preheat oven at 180'c and then bake the cake at the same tem for 25-30 mins.

•  Use 0 and 1 speed of electric blender.

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