Chocolate Madeira Cake

All purpose flour - 2 cups

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Butter - 1 cup

Castor sugar - 1 cup

Eggs - 2 nos (beaten)

Ground Almonds - 4 tsp

Drinking Chocolate powder - 3 tsp

Icing sugar - 1 tsp (For dusting)

Ground Cashew nuts - 1/2 cup (powdered)

Almonds - 1/2 cup


Icing::

Icing sugar - 1/2 cup

Cocoa powder - 2 tsp

Butter - 2 tsp

Hot water - 4 tsp



Preheat the oven @250 degree. Grease the baking bowl with butter or ghee. Shift the flour and baking powder. Keep aside. Beat the butter and sugar till it becomes light and fluffy, now add the eggs and little flour and beat well. Now pour this mixture to the flour and mix well. Add the ground almonds and chocolate drinking powder and mix well till it becomes a pouring batter. Now pour the mixture to the greased baking bowl and bake it in the preheated oven for about 35-40 minutes or till a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.







For the Icing::

Sift the icing sugar and cocoa powder together in a bowl. Now place the butter in the center and mix well with sufficient hot water till it becomes a smooth spreadable icing.


Coat the top of the cake with the icing. Dust with icing sugar, and ground cashew. Decorate all sides with almonds.


What a weird reaction by my son after tasting d cake!!!!!!!!




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