One Bowl Chocolate Cake

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup cocoa
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup butter
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/3 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon butter, at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar (icing sugar)
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• 1/2 teaspoon instant coffee
• 4 -5 tablespoons heavy cream

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 grease and line the bottom of a 9" square cake pan with waxed paper.
• 3 in a mixing bowl, sift together the first six ingredients.
• 4 add the rest and blend on low speed, or by hand, till its nicely moistened.
• 5 mix further for three mins on medium speed.
• 6 pour mixture in the prepared cake pan.
• 7 bake 35 minutes.
• 8 cake should rebound when gently pressed in the centre.
• 9 cool in pan for 10 minutes before inverting on to a plate.
• 10 when completely cool, cover with chocolate frosting.
• 11 frosting: cream butter, salt, vanilla, instant coffee and half of the sugar.
• 12 now use up all the cream and sugar in alternate additions till a rich gloss is reached and the frosting is of a thick spreading consistency.