Choco lava cake

Ingredients                                                                          Makes four servings

1 stick (Half cup) butter
114 grams bittersweet or semisweet chocolate
1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
2 whole eggs
3 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup all-purpose flour

Procedure:

• Preheat your oven to 425ºF (220ºC).
• Spray four custard cups with baking spray and place on a baking sheet.
• Microwave the butter, bittersweet chocolate and semisweet chocolate in a large bowl on high until the butter is melted, about 1 minute. Whisk until the chocolate is also melted. Stir in the sugar until well blended. Whisk in the eggs and egg yolks, then add the vanilla. Stir in the flour. Divide the mixture among the custard cups.
• Bake until the sides are firm and the centers are soft, about 13 minutes. Let stand 1 minute. Invert on individual plates while warm and serve with vanilla ice cream.

In my next posts, I’ll be sharing with you the important tips that you should follow while making these choco-lava cup cakes for the first time because even I made many mistakes the second time I tried to bake them.

Decorating your cake and cupcakes

Well, I know that not everybody can make the frosting without the electric mixer. So, here are some ideas which might be helpful:

• Decorating your cake with Nutella: Instead of frosting, if you have nutella, you know what to do. Then, to make it more attractive, you can decorate it further with some dry fruits, fruits, gems, etc.

• Just walnuts and almonds will do too: If you don’t have nutella, you can decorate your cake with dry fruits as well. All you have to do is before putting your cake’s batter into the oven/microwave, cover the top of the batter with almonds (cut into half or four), or walnuts or raisins.

(Well you can of course use more dry fruits and raisins)

(Like This. Image Source: Google)

• Substitute of Nutella: If you do not wish to spend your money on nutella, you can use some chocolates too. White or dark, it’s your choice. Buy 2-3 of them. (Well, I use 2 five star chocolates because they have so much caramel and I love its taste. You can use your favourite chocolate), melt them in the microwave with 1 tablespoon of butter and you can use some honey too if you want. Mix them all together and cover your cake in your favorite chocolate frosting. 😉

• Chocolate and vanilla cake: If you do not have any chocolates and just cocoa powder. You can still give your cake a very creative look using cocoa powder. When you’ve prepared your vanilla or milk cake batter, divide it into two and pour half of the batter into another bowl. Now, in one of the batter, put some cocoa powder and mix it well. Now you have two different batter- one vanilla and the other cocoa. First, pour your vanilla batter into the baking pan. Then after 2 minutes, put your cocoa batter over it but DO NOT combine them. There should be two layers of layers of batter. Then bake it. Simple! This way you don’t have to make two separate layers of cake and go through the process of combining those layers with chocolate in between. If you have time and chocolate/frosting, you can do that too. The layers will not be perfect though but it’s less time consuming and it will still look good. Little bit like a marble cake. 🙂

• Marble Cake: Best. Do the same with batter as shown above and before putting your cake into oven, just take a toothpick and make a heart or any random design in the batter with the toothpick so that it looks like this:

And then bake it. And when you’ll cut your cake, you’d fall in love with it. It will look something like this:

(Image Source: Google) But well, i HAVE tried it and baked it several times. 😛

Hot Milk Cake

Introduction: Okay, so this is the best and the easiest cake recipe that I have come across yet. It doesn’t require much time. The ingredients are simple and can be found in any grocery store. This is one of those cakes that you bake when you REALLY need to eat something sweet but don’t want to wait for too long to prepare it.  Here it goes!

Preparation Time: 20 minutes

Bake: 30 minutes

Yield: 12-16 servings

Ingredients:

• 4 eggs
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup milk
• 10 tablespoon butter, cubed

Directions:

• In a large bowl, beat eggs on high speed for 5 minutes or until thick and lemon coloured.
• Gradually add sugar, beating until mixture is light and fluffy.
• Beat in vanilla essence. Keep it aside.
• Combine flour and baking powder. Gradually add this powdered mixture to your egg mixture; beat at low speed until smooth.
• In a small saucepan, heat milk and butter just until butter is melted.
• Gradually add it to the batter. Beat until combined.
• Pour into a greased 13 inch x 9 inch baking pan.
• Bake at 350 degree for 30-35 minutes.