The perfect homemade Chocolate cake with dry fruits and dates

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Most of us walks into a cake shop and buys a cake, not only because it's fashionable but also convenient. But no cake shop product no matter how sophisticated or delicate it tastes or sounds can ever match the joy of putting in your mouth a hot home made cake made with love. Making cake is simple though quite laborious, but what matters is the ratio of the ingredients. It might be those Ramsay Gordon Great escapes videos I watched on youtube that activated my cake baking instincts. Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. Now what better thing to start than a chocolate cake. Now after experimenting with 8-10 different kind of cakes recipes in the last 2 months I have decided to share a foolproof recipe for beginners. And always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

Now the ingredients needed are with their quantity -


1) Butter or olive oil - 2 cups
2) Flour - 2 cups
3) Cocoa powder - 1 cup
4) Cherries - 1 cup
5) Egg- 1 cup
6) Milkmaid - 1 cup
7) Salt - 1 teaspoon
8) Baking powder - 2 teaspoon
9) Sugar - 2 cups
10) Milk - 1 cup
11) Cashew nuts - 1 cup
12) Black Raisins - 1 cup
13) Yellow raisins - 1 cup
14) Dates - 1 cup
15) Walnut - 1 cup
16) Vanilla cream - 1 cup
17) Vanilla essence - 2 teaspoon
18) Instant coffee - 2 teaspoon

Now the egg should be mixed vigorously till it becomes creamy, and the flour should be added to the mixture last and should not be over beaten or else the cake would become heavy. Secondly there should me more sugar than flour, in weight not volume. Thirdly there should be more egg than butter/olive oil. Fourthly the nuts should be mixed with flour before inserting into cake.

And that's the hot and delicious chocolate cake with dry fruit baked and ready to be eaten.  






















 


photos of the ingredients-










The bowl of nuts


 Dates


 2 different types of raisins


 Flour, salt, baking powder and cocoa powder


 Red cherries


 Walnuts


 Egg and butter/olive oil


 Sugar,  milk and instant coffee


 The cake mix just before going inside the oven



Some tit bits about cake - The name cake was derived from scandinavian viking dish 'kaka' But the romans had learned to make cake earlier than that. But they used honey because sugar wasn't known in Europe back then. After Alexander introduced sugar from India, the Cake became a common man's dish in Europe.









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