Chocolate Walnut Cake
A crows pleaser tried & tested recipe. It gives perfect result each time.
Servings: 6 inch round cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup all purpose flour sieved
- 1 cup yogurt homemade curd
- ¾ cup sugar granulated
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1¼ tsp baking powder
- ½ cup olive oil
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup walnuts chopped & slightly roasted
- ½ cup cocoa powder unsweetened
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 °C. Grease a 6-inch round pan, and line the bottom.
- Beat the sugar and yogurt for 5 minutes on high speed. Add baking powder and baking soda, beat in on low, and allow to stand for 3 minutes. You will find that bubbles appear.
- Sift cocoa powder & flour together 2-3 times.
- Beat in the oil and vanilla extract. Next, slowly add the flour mixture in 4 lots, blending in well after each addition.
- Pour the batter in the prepared pan. Sprinkle chopped walnuts on top.
- Bake at 200 °C for 10 minutes, reduce temperature to 170 °C and bake for 40-45 minutes or till a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
- Cool the cake for 30 minutes and then overturn onto a plate.
- Wait for at least 2 hours before slicing it, else it doesn't slice neatly.
Notes
- If you want to add dried fruits and nuts in the batter than slightly roast them and coat in flour before adding.
- I used oil for my cake.
- Like a quickbread it is best to slice the cake next day.
- I have realized that the baking time in OTG & convection microwave oven may vary. I bake in convection mode of my Microwave and hence timing are according to that. eg this cake takes 25 minutes at after reducing temp 170°C in the convection mode, but it takes much lesser in OTG. So please monitor time based on the appliance you are using.