Chocolate Cake

I baked this cake for Jane's birthday and I have to say that this is the best chocolate cake  I've ever tasted. Even far better than the cakes we get from bakeries. It was so moist and we enjoyed every bit of it. I used the recipe of Nigella.  Here it goes..

Ingredients

For the cake

•   100 gram(s) Plain flour
•   100 gram(s) caster sugar
•   1/2 teaspoon(s) baking powder
•   1/4 teaspoon(s) bicarbonate of soda
•   20 gram(s) cocoa powder
•   100   gram(s) unsalted butter (soft)
•   1 large egg(s)
•   1 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract
•   75   ml sour cream

For the icing

•   40   gram(s) unsalted butter
•   85   gram(s) dark chocolate (broken into small pieces)
•   150   gram(s) Icing sugar
•   60   ml sour cream
•   1/2 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract

Method

 

1. Preheat the oven 180C. Grease a 20cm Cake pan  and line with a butter paper.

2. Now, mix all the ingredients for cake in a bowl and mix them together with a electric beater.

3. Transfer to the cake pan and bake in the hot oven for 25-30 mins or till the inserted knife comes out clean.

4. Cool the cake in a wired rack.

5.Now, for the icing, melt the butter and sugar in a glass bowl in microwave for 1 minute. Repeat again till chocolate is melted. Take care not to burn the mixture.

6. Sift the icing sugar.

7. Now add sour cream and vanilla extract to the chocolate mixture and mix them. Add the icing sugar.

8. If the mixture is too thick , add 1 tablespoon of boiling water to the mixture.

10.Spoon the icing on the cake and with a spatula spread it gently. Enjoy.