chocolate cake!!

Just when you thought it would never happen.....a recipe from me! :)

Chocolate cake (also known as the-one-and-only-divine-cake-flavour)

So...first...photo...to get ppl interested. Remember this is with my digicam with my extremely advanced food photography skils...ahem..now that we're all drooling...

Ingredients!!
2 cups maida
2 cups powdered sugar (not granular sugar ppl...so u need abt 1.5 to 1.75 cups of granular sugar to get 2 cups of powdered)
1 cup water
2 tsp vanilla essence
4 tbsp cocoa pwder (i like my choc cakes darrrrrrrk....so i put 4 heaped)
1/2 cup oil (regular cooking oil...koi sa bhi chalega...not like mustard obviously...)
1/4 cup white butter (also knows as cooking butter) DO not put amul or any other salted one. bad idea.
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk (at room temp)
1 tbsp vinegar
2 eggs
3/4 tsp baking soda

How to:
1. Seive the maida, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder together...abt 2 to 3 times. Keep aside.
2. In a largish vessel...mix together sugar, oil, butter and vanilla essence. Beat with an electric beater if u have one. If you dont have any...lure ppl in the family to do it for u....(with huge portions of cake promised...it usually works). The idea is to get a lot of air incorporated into the sugar mix....
When u think ur done...or are tired of beating the damn thing....add the eggs...again beat well. then add water, milk and vinegar and mix nicely. The mixture will seem extremely liquidy. Do not panic.

3. Grease and flour a baking dish of ur choice. Remember this needs to cook in an convection oven....so use aluminium or glass. No plastic. I have reason for stating this very obvious fact.

4. Also preheat ur oven. I make this on a gas oven...so i have no clue to what degree C u need to preheat ur oven. I think 200 deg C should be good. If it isnt...well...there's always a next time.

5. Now...take the flour mix (already seived and put aside) into a big bowl. Add the liquid mix to this slowly and mix it all together with minimum strokes. Yeah u need to add it slowly..but mix it quickly...just another way to make things look difficult. Main idea being...mix it before the fizz of the soda goes away and u end up with a flat cake.Sufficiently scared?

6. Bake for approx 40 mins. I think 20 mins at 200 deg C and then another 20 at 180 deg C should do it. Check...do the toothpick test and cook more if required. Like i said....i use a gas oven...so i take no responsibility for the time recommendation.

7. Once done....cool and then dig in!!

Enzoy.