Glazed Chocolate Cake

This chocolate cake is the most loved and relished cake in our family!!
It is soft and yummy and I make it very often as it is in great demand during all seasons and occasions.

Ingredients:

Butter- 1 cup
Brown sugar- 1 ½ cups
White sugar- 2 ½ cups
Eggs- 4 nos
Flour (Maida) - 3 ½ cups
Dark Cocoa powder- 4 tbsp
Baking powder- 3 tsp
Salt- a pinch
Vanilla essence - 2 ½ tsp
Curd - 1cup

Ingredients for glazing the cake:

Chocolate chips- 1 cup (250 ml)
Instant coffee powder -1 tbsp
Water- ½ cup
Powdered sugar - 1 tbsp
Rum – 2 tbsp
Butter - 1 tbsp

Preparation

Powder white sugar and brown sugar in a grinder.
Take a bowl and mix this powdered sugar with butter
and beat till it becomes very smooth.
Separate egg whites from egg yolk; add egg yolks into the bowl
and mix well to make it fluffy and soft.
Beat the egg whites till it is stiff and frothy.
Add this to the bowl and blend gently.
Sift flour, cocoa and baking powder thrice.
Add the flour to the sugar, butter and egg mixture
spoon by spoon; make sure that you
mix the flour gently so that there are no lumps.
Pour the curd in between, in little amounts and
fold the mixture slowly. Repeat this many times
so that the air gets into the mixture.
Add vanilla essence and salt and mix well.

Pre heat the oven in 180 degrees for 10 minutes.
Take a large pan and grease it with butter and dust with flour.
Now , pour in the cake batter. Level the batter in the pan
by swirling it and then pat the pan gently to remove the trapped air .
Now bake it for 45 minutes at 180 degrees.
Take the pan out from the oven; insert a skewer in the center of the cake
and remove to check whether it has come out clean without
anything sticking on to it. Run a knife around the cake
and transfer the cake on to wire mesh to cool it.
You can glaze the cake when it is cool.
Glazing the cake
In a double boiler add water, coffee and sugar powder.
As it simmers, add chocolate chips and stir it till it melts and thickens.
Remove it from fire; and then add rum.
As it cools, blend in butter; now you can pour the glaze over the cake.

Tips

1. All the ingredients used in the preparation of the cake should be fresh and should be in room temperature.
2. Use only unsalted butter available in market. Do not use homemade butter as it contains more moisture.
3. Baking powder should be freshly purchased and used well within the expiry date.
4. While beating the egg white, add a drop of lime juice which helps them to hold their stiff peaks.
5. Medium tea cups are used for measurement in this recipe.