Chocolate Cake

Ingredients
1) All Purpose Flour - 1 1/2 cups
2) Cocoa Powder - 1 1/2 cups
3) Condensed Milk - 1 can
4) Baking Powder - 1 tea spoon
5) Baking Soda - 1 tea spoon
6) Unsalted butter - 8 tea spoons or 1 slice
7) Chocolate Fudge - 1/2 cup
8) Whipped Cream - 1/4 cup
9) Sweetened Sugar - 1/2 cup
10) Soda(coke) - 150 ml
11) Vanilla Extract - 2 tea spoons
12) Corn Starch - 1/4 cup

Procedure
1. Take butter in small pan and heat it until it becomes liquid.
2. Take condensed milk in a bowl, add liquid butter, stir thoroughly and keep it aside.
3. Take cocoa powder into a bowl add water to it and prepare a thick viscous chocolate liquid and       keep it aside.
4. Take all purpose Flour in another bowl, add starch, sweetened sugar(1/4 cup), baking soda, baking powder to it and mix the ingredients well and ensure there are no lumps.
5. Add powdered mix(step 4) and liquid cocoa(step 3) to liquid mix(step 1). Do not add all at once. Follow below method.
6. Add some amount of powdered mix and stir well. Then add cocoa mix and add little soda for better stirring.
7. Repeat step 6 until all the powdered mix is used.
8. Once all the mixes are mixed and stirred thoroughly add Vanilla extract and again stir well until thick uniform textured liquid is formed.
9. Preheat the Oven for 350 degrees.
10. Take a cake pan and grease it with butter or cooking oil spray. Fill half the cake pan with above liquid and bake it for 25 mins.
11. Take out the cake once baked(insert a toothpick or small sharp thing to check. If the toothpick is clean without any liquid sticking to it, cake is baked). Cool the cake by keeping it in refrigerator for 2 hours.
12. Take Chocolate Fudge in a bowl, add sweetened sugar to it and mix them well.
13. Once cake is cooled, apply the chocolate cream(step 12) on the cake and spread uniformly. cover the entire cake with the cream.
14. Can decorate the fron portion of the cake with whipped cream.
15. Chocolate Cake is Ready.

                            

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Rajma Masala

Ingredients
1) Rajma(red Kidney beans) - 1 cup
2) Tomato - 4
3) Onion - 1 large
4) Green Chillies - 4
5) Ginger - 10 gms
6) Garlic - 3 cloves
7) Garam Masala - 1 table spoon
8) Coriander powder - 2 tea spoons
9) Cumin seeds - 3 gms
10) Coriander leaves - 10 gms
11) Butter - 1 small chunk
12) Oil - 1 table spoon
13)Turmeric powder - 1 tea spoon
14) Salt - as per taste

Procedure
1. Soak Rajma beans overnight in water.
2. Drain the water and then boil the beans in pressure cooker with fresh water(3 whistles)
3. Finely chop tomato and onion.
4. Chop green chillies, garlic, ginger and then smash them in hand grinder(dhink chik)
5. Take oil in pan and heat it.
6. Add cumin seeds to it and once they splutter add onions and fry them.
7. Add the smashed green chillies, ginger, garlic to heat and fry them.
8. Add garam masala, coriander powder, turmeric powder and mix the ingredients thoroughly.
9. Take the water from the boiled rajma and pour into the pan and can keep flame high and boil.
10. Add Tomatoes to it and close the pan with lid. Keep the flame medium and let it cook for 5- 10mins.
11. Keep stirring in between and soften the tomatoes.
12. Once the mixture gets thicker add butter and heat it for a min.
13. Add boiled rajma, salt and mix all the ingredient thoroughly.
14. Keep the flame in medium and let it cook for 10-15 mins.
15. If needed you can add water as per the consistency needed.
16. Once rajma is cooked , finely chop coriander leaves and mix it well.
17. Rajma Masala is ready and server hot.

                    

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