Old-fashioned chocolate layered cake

Old is gold. And this old fashioned chocolate cake would indulge in your blood in a dangerous manner that you too would turn chocoholic like me. But you will never repent because, who in this world wouldn't dream of overwhelming in a ravishing pool of chocolate. Mmmm.. i am salivating. I am sure you too is. I am breaking all the laws of lean diet and fat free diet, but enjoying the taste of chocolate with you, for you.


Ingredients:-


For cake batter:-


Dry ingredients:
Plain AP flour-1cup
Sugar-3/4cup
Baking Powder-1tspn
Baking soda-1/2tspn
Cocoa powder-2heaped tablespoon(1/4cup)


Wet ingredients:
Egg-2
Vanilla essence-2tspn
Sour cream-1cup
Butter-3heaped tablespn(at room temperature)


For frosting:-


Semisweet chocolate chips-6oz
Butter-2tablespn
Sour cream3 tablespn
Vanilla essence-1tspn
Icing Sugar-1 cup
Golden syrup-2drips




Directions:-

• Sieve all the dry ingredients through a sieve to remove the lumps.
• Put all the wet ingredients in the mixer to form a liquid base.
• Add all the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients in the mixer and give a blitz to form a batter.
• Take two 9'11/2(or around the same size pan) inch pans and butter them and dust with cocoa-flour mixture.(prepare a cocoa- flour mixture with 1:2 ratio to prevent the cake sticking from the pan while removing after baking. The brown color of this mixture will help to retain the cake color).
• Pour the batter into pans and bake.
• Preheat the oven at 350F and bake for 30min.
• Cake base ready.

Meanwhile frosting:-

• Using a double broiler melt the chocolate chips with butter.
• When fully melted take off from the flame and add in the sour cream and vanilla.
• Blend everything with a spoon.
• Add in the icing sugar to this chocolate mixture to give a blitz.  Blend well in the blender.
• Keep aside.

• Now after 30 min stick in a knife and see if the cake is done.
• Stop baking and remove the 1st cake out of the pan and place over a cake stand.
• Now smudge 1/3rd of the frosting over the cake clattered, not necessarily evenly and not till the edge.
• Take the second cake and place over 1st and this will smudge the frosting to the edges.
• Now smudge the another 1/3rd frosting on the top. Need not be perfect. Since we  are dealing with homemade recipes.
• And finally one third over the sides.
• Adorn the top with flowers or strawberries.
• DONE:)

BON APPETITE:)