Sunday, April 5, 2015

Chocolate Sponge Cake


We always think baking a cake is a difficult process. It needs so many ingredients, and an ELECTRIC OVEN! In our household many of us do not have an electric oven. Now does it mean that we cannot bake cake at home?? The answer is YES!!! We can bake Pretty, Lovely and Delicious cakes at home with using PRESSURE COOKER with ingredients available at home! HOW EASY IS THAT! Look for the ingredients below:

Chocolate Sponge Cake


Ingredients for Chocolate Sponge Cake:

Flour                    250gm/ 1 bowl (Medium size soup bowl)
Egg                       3 
Sugar                   250gm/ Equivalent to flour
Milk                     1/4th cup
Vanilla extract   1 tea spoon
Oil                        1 tea spoon
Baking Powder   1 tea spoon
Coco Powder       1 tea cup

Ingredients for Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting:

Butter                  3 table spoon
Icing Sugar          4 tea cups
Vanilla extract    1 tea spoon
Coco Powder       1/2 cup
Milk                      1/2 cup

Making Process of Cake:

1. Take a hand/stand mixer. Separate the white part and yellow part of eggs. In the mixer beat egg whites and sugar well until it takes shape of thick cream. Then keep those cream aside.
2. In a bowl take egg yolks, vanilla extract, milk and oil. Mix it well with a mixer.
3. Mix flour, coco powder and baking powder in a bowl.
4. Then put the egg yolk mixture in flour mixture it slowly and cream of egg whites. Mix it one by one and stir it with an spatula. Mix it well.
5. Pre heat the pressure cooker for 5 minutes. put some salt on the surface of the cooker so that the surface does not get burned. Then put a stand inside the cooker and the baking container on it.
6. Grease the baking container with butter and then pour it with cake mixture. No need to cover the container.
7. Put the container inside the pressure cooker and cover it. DO NOT use pressure cooker whistle. Cook it in medium heat for 30 minutes. Then turn off the stove keep it like that for 5 to 8 minutes. After that remove the open the cooker and take out the cake container slowly. Wear hand gloves or take some to take off the container from the cooker. 
8. Put a knife inside the cake to check the cake weather its done or not. If its done the knife will come out clean. Your cake is DONE!
9. You can simply serve it with sprinkling some icing sugar on it or can decorate it with cream frosting.

Making of Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting:

1. With a Hand/stand mixture mix butter, vanilla extract, milk. Mix it well then add coco powder and icing sugar slowly. Beat it well until it gets creamy and thick.