Easy Mexican Chocolate Cake Recipe
July 18th, 2015
Who doesn’t love cakes? Almost everyone drools over the delicious looking cakes in the bakery. But few of us know they are easy to make at home. You can also get it delivered at your doorstep. Cake delivery in UK and many other parts of the world is now easily done.
Let’s together make an easy and delicious cake. Here is the recipe, it will serve six and takes time of 120 minutes to get ready including preparation time. The recipe is called Mexican Chocolate Cake.
For cake:
- All-purpose flour 1 1/2 cups
- Sugar 1 cup
- Unsweetened cocoa 1/2 cup
- Cinnamon powder 1 teaspoon
- Baking soda 1 teaspoon
- Ground Mexican chili powder or cayenne pepper 1/4 teaspoon
- Salt 1/4 teaspoon
- Cold water 1 cup
- Canola oil 1 cup
- Vinegar 1 tablespoon
- Vanilla extract 1 tablespoon
For Glaze:
- Confectioner sugar 1 cup
- Cocoa 1/2 cup
- Water 6 tablespoons
- Small strawberries 6-10
Dust the baking pan with vegetable oil and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Sieve flour, cocoa, soda, cinnamon powder, salt together in a mixing bowl. Add to it sugar, cayenne pepper, canola oil, vinegar and vanilla extract. Slowly add the water and mix well until it is smooth. Pour the batter in the baking pan and bake 25 to 30 minutes. Insert a toothpick, and if it comes out clean, your cake is done. Let it cool for some 15 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare the glaze for the cake. Mix cocoa, sugar and water, beat until smooth. Dip strawberries in the glaze and put the rest over the cake. Set the glazed strawberries on the top and your cake is ready. It carries 450 calories, 35 mg of calcium, 87 grams carbohydrates, no cholesterol, 12 grams of fat, 6 grams of fibre, 4 mg Iron, 6 mg protein, 2 grams of saturated fat and 312 mg sodium.
Instead of glazing, you can also do the icing on cake. Here is the recipe of basic vanilla icing.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of Confectioner’s sugar
- 2 tablespoon of butter or margarine
- 2 tablespoon of milk
- 1/2 tsp of vanilla
You can either buy the confectioner’s sugar or make it at home. Grind 1 cup sugar to fine powder with 1 1/4 tablespoon of corn flour or cornstarch or similar anti-caking agent. This is to prevent it from lumping. Your confectioner’s sugar is ready for use.
Mix the ingredients in a bowl until smooth. Make a cone of plastic or you can buy the ready-made icing cone. Fill the mixture in the cone and keep it refrigerated for some time. Cut a hole of desired size and make any design over your cake. Let the cake refrigerate so that the icing doesn’t melt.
You can do the variations in the icing recipe. Similarly, you can make the cream icing, cream and cheese icing, orange or lemon frosting, etc. For chocolate icing, melt chocolate in a little milk and butter and then gradually beat in the sugar.