Chocolate cake

I love baking and for a long time I wanted to bake a cake. My husband and sister are two sweet lovers and it’s a pleaseure to cook when somebody loves something you make.

Ingredients
Sift 3 cups of flour
6 tablespoon of cocoa powder
2 tsp of baking soda
½ tsp saltWhisk 2 cups of water
2 cups of sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp vinegar / half cup yogurt
½ cup oil.

For Icing:
1 1/2 cups icing sugar sifted
1 tbsp castor or granular sugar
2 1/2 tbsp. thin cream or wholefat milk
40 gms. white butter

Method
Sift the first 4 ingredients. Whisk 2 cups of water, 2 cups of sugar, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 2 tsp vinegar, ½ cup oil. Whisk until the sugar gets dissolved. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well with help of hand mixer. Pour the batter into a greased oven pan or parchment paper lined. Pre- heat the oven to 350 F and bake for 35 – 40 minutes. Keep checking once in a while, and insert a tooth pick into the cake, if the tooth pick comes out without sticky of cakes, you are all set. Take the pan from the oven. You can cool it and keep in the fridge. Serve it cold. Or you can cool the cake, complete the icing and then refrigerate it before serving.

For Icing:
Sift icing sugar into a bowl. Keep aside. Melt butter carefully in a pan. Add milk and bring to just below simmering point (71°C). Simultaneously, heat castor sugar in another pan. Pour into caramel, stir to dissolve. Pour over icing sugar, beat till thick and creamy. Make sure that the cake is completely cooled and then spread the icing over cake.