My friend Mamta and I were like chalk and cheese. Cooking and baking were a common interest though. We were quite the cooks at a very early age. One summer her maternal aunt who lived in Kanpur taught us this recipe. We both have made this cake a hundred and more times each since then.
The recipe is a beauty. The cake comes out fluffy, not-too-sweet and light.
My food word for this recipe would be spot-on.
When you go out shopping look for;
All purpose flour
Yogurt
Sugar
Cocoa powder
Drinking chocolate powder
Cooking soda
Cooking oil
Water
The recipe would be;
Pre-heat your oven at two hundred and twenty degrees Celcius. Line a cake baking dish with butter paper.
In a mixing bowl, take half cup of water, cooking oil and yogurt each and mix well with a spatula. Add three-fourth cup of sugar and mix in the same till it dissolves into the liquid. In a separate container, take one and a half cups of flour. Add four tsp of cocoa powder and eight tsp of drinking chocolate powder. Now add half a tsp of cooking soda to the dry mixture. Fold in the dry mixture to the wet mix. With the spatula cut and fold the batter to make it smooth. Pour in the mix into the ready baking dish.
Place the baking dish in the oven and keep the temperature at one hundred and eighty degrees. Bake for fifteen minutes. Introduce a needle and see if it comes out of the cake with nothing stuck to it. If so, viola, you cake is ready.
