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Special Decoration Chocolate Cake

18 Nov

About the Recipe

This recipe shows how to make designer cakes at home using simple ingredients for any special occasion. This is a chocolate cake made from chocolate cake premix and beautifully decorated with natural-looking flowers. If you do not like messy baking tins after baking, use Oddy Ecobake, which is very convenient and can be cut to your desired size, to make a non-sticky cake.

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Ingredients

 

  • Chocolate cake premix- 200 g & Water-1/2 cup +1 tbsp
  • Oil-2 tbsp & Cocoa powder-2 tbsp
  • Chilled whipping cream-1 cup + ½ cup & Powdered sugar- 3 to 4 tbsp
  • Sugar syrup: sugar + water + chocolate ganache & Piping bag
  • 2C nozzle & Small petal nozzle or piping bag cut into slanting ‘v’
  • Egg yellow, green gel food colour & Leaf nozzle & Noor nozzle no. 36 or piping bag cut as inverted ‘U’
  • Oddy Ecobake

Directions

 

  • Take the chocolate cake premix, water, and oil in a bowl and whisk well to make a smooth batter. Line a 6-inch baking pan with Oddy Ecobake. Pour the batter into the baking pan and tap well.
  • Preheat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius. Bake the cake for 35–40 minutes. Let it cool, then cut it into three layers. Add whipping cream, cocoa powder, and powdered sugar to a bowl and beat until you get stiff peaks.
  • Place a layer of cake on the cake board, moisten with sugar syrup, and apply whipping cream. Repeat the process for the remaining layers. Frost the cake with whipping cream and chocolate cream as shown, and even the surface using a scraper.
  • Fill the chocolate cream in a piping bag, pour, and make swirls on the top as shown. Decorate the bottom sides with chocolate whipping cream using a 2C nozzle. Decorate the cake top sides using a small petal nozzle.
  • Mix yellow gel food colour with whipping cream and make flowers using this cream on a flower nail, as shown. Make as many flowers as you want. Transfer the flowers to the top of the cake using scissors.
  • Decorate with green cream using a leaf nozzle. Decorate with chocolate cream as shown. The yummy chocolate cake with a very beautiful decoration is ready.

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Recipe by

Classy Bhava Kitchen

An MBA Lecturer & Personality Development Trainer by profession & a full-on food enthusiast. She believes that great food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

About the Recipe

Navratri Special Dhokla for Vrat. Dhokla is a popular and traditional Indian recipe originating from Gujarat. One of the key issues that people face when steaming dhokla is that it gets stuck to the pan. When we take it out, the shape gets broken. Ecobake helps in getting the perfect dhokla shape without any greasing and no need for cleaning afterward.

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Ingredients

  • For Premix : 2-1/2 cups or 500 grams - Varai/Samo/Bhagar
  • For Premix: 150 grams or 1 cup sabudanna/sago
  • For Dhokla: 2 cups premix & 1/2 whisked cup curd, red chilli powder
  • water as required to make a smooth batter
  • 1/4 tsp sugar, 1/2 tsp green chilli paste & 1/4 tsp eno

Directions

  • In a bowl take the Bhagar and Sabudanna and mix roughly. Then pour it in a mixer grinder for fine powder. Store the powder in dry and clean glass jar for future use. If kept in a fridge it will last for 5-6 months. if kept outside the fridge, it will last for one week.
  • For dhokla batter, in a bowl take 2 cups of the premix powder, add one cup whisked curd. Add water gradually as per requirement for a smooth batter. After mixing, leave it covered for 30 minutes.
  • After 30 minutes, give it a quick mix in a mixer grinder. This will give a good runny consistency.
  • Now to make a small batch of dhokla, take 2 tbsp of grinded premix batter and add salt as per taste, 1/4 tsp sugar, 1/2 tsp green chilli paste. Give it a good mix.
  • Now in a baking tray, line with it Oddy Ecobake papers. It is easy and convenient to use for baking, cooking or steaming. So just before you pour in the batter, add 1/4 tsp eno powder and 1/4 tsp water and give a good mix to activate the eco.
  • In the meantime, put the water for boil for placing the dhokla batter for steaming. Now pour the batter in the tray and pat the base to settle the batter equally. Sprinkle little red chilli powder on the batter.
  • Place the dhokla batter tray on the water. Cover it and let it steam for 10-15 minutes. After 12 minutes, check with a toothpick. If the toothpick comes clean, then dholkla is ready to be served.

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Recipe by

Sapanas Kitchen Marathi

Sapna Bhandare is a housewife who loves trying out delicious cooking recipes along with new and traditional dishes in the right way and with the right amount and has a unique flavor on her Marathi channel.

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