Chocolate - Cherry Cake

Chocolate cake with cherries awesome combination. This summer my home is filled with two little angels (my brother-in-law’s daughter, Disha and Isha, 8 and 5 yrs old resp), as they wanted to learn making of chocolate cake... I prepared this recipe…OOPS my angels baked this cake with my directions...They are so happy  that almost whole day spent in eating the cake and calling everybody in phone and telling how they prepared and all(even thought they are not so well understood about baking time ,measurements but its ignored in front of their excitement)…J

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 10 min

Serves for: 2-3 persons

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1 and 1/2 cups (225 gms)

Cocoa powder - 3 tbsp

Baking soda – 1/4 tsp

Baking powder - 1/2 tsp

Salt taste

Powder Sugar - 3/4 cup [Adjust according to your taste]

Chopped Cherries - 2 tbsp

Water – 1/2 cup

Curd – 1/2 cup

Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp

Lemon juice - 1 tbsp

Oil - 1/4 cup (60 ml)

Direction for Preparation:

1 Take water in a bowl, add curd, vanilla essence, lemon juice and oil. Mix well and Keep aside.

2. Now take flour, Powder Sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt and coco powder and sieve together.

3. Then slowly add the sieved flour mixture to the wet ingredients mixture.

4. Gently mix in one direction until no lumps are formed, (mixing in one direction will reduce the hair crack on your cake after baking).

5. Now add chopped cherries (you can use chocochips, raisins instead of cherry) and gently mix it.

6. Preheat oven to 200 deg C for 10mins. By the time grease the cake pan with few drops of oil and pour the batter into the cake pan.

7. Bake for about 7-9 min (I am using Onida Conventional microwave and my cake takes almost 7 min at 200 C). Or until toothpick inserted come out clean.