Chocolate cake

Again a chocolate cake recipe.Yea I'm a true lover of chocolate!Before I baked Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and Simple chocolate cake in my pressure cooker.But this time I tried it in oven.I selected recipe from Beulah's full scoop

I didin't make any change in the original recipe except in the quantity of coffee I used.And I was too lazy with no patience to do all other decorations ..Sorry Beulah..Simply I did a normal chocolate frosting.

Ingredients:

• Maida : 1 3/4 cup
• Sugar : 2 cup
• Cocoa powder : 3/4 cup
• Baking soda : 2 tspn
• Baking powder : 1 tspn
• Butter milk : 1 cup
• Oil : 1/2 cup
• Salt : 1/2 tspn
• Egg : 2
• Vanilla essence : 1tspn
• Hot water : 1/2 cup
• Coffee powder : 2.5 tspn

For frosting:

• Butter : 1 cup
• Cocoa powder : 1/2 cup
• Icing Sugar / powdered sugar : 1/2 cup
• Vanilla essence : 1/2 tspn
• Milk : 1 tspn(or as required)

Method:

• Sieve maida,cocoa powder,baking soda,salt and baking powder together and keep aside.
• Beat suagr and egg together.Add vanilla essence and beat it well till the egg are forthy
• Now add oil and butter milk one at a time and beat well
• Now add the sifted dry ingredients to it and mix well.
• Add the coffee powder to 1/2 cup of hot water.Add it to the batter and mix well
• Pre heat the oven to 180 C .
• Line and grease a 10"pan.(or bake it in batches,or use two cake  pan)Cake will raise
• Pour the batter in to cake pan and bake it for 30 to 45 minutes.(mine took 40 minutes)
• Allow  to cool for 10 minutes in the pan and then transfer to cooling racks and cool completely.
• I decorated with easy chocolate frosting.

Chocolate frosting:

• Mix cocoa powder,sugar,butter and vanilla essence.
• Make it in to a smooth paste,If necessary add milk
• Apply it on cooled cake with a knife