KIDS’ PARTY CAKE

My son’s Birthday cake…………. It’s a simple chocolate cake, layered and covered with chocolate. Everyone has a go to chocolate cake recipe, this is mine.  It is an easy to make cake, with flour, butter and sugar in a ratio of 1:1:1.

Children’s Party Cake Recipe

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Ingredients

• 200 grams Refined Flour
• ¼ cup Coco Powder un Sweetened
• 200 grams Butter
• 200 grams Powdered Sugar
• 3 Eggs Medium Size
• 1 tsp. Baking powder
• 100 grams. Dark Chocolate
• 100 grams Butter Melted
• 200 ml Fresh Cream
• Chocolate wafer / biscuits as required
• Colorful candies for decoration

Instructions

1. Preheat oven at 180°C.
2. Line a round cake tin.
3. Heat 1 cup of water and dissolve cocoa powder in it and keep it aside.
4. Cream butter and icing sugar in a bowl with an electric beater till fluffy.
5. Add dissolved cocoa powder and beat again.
6. Add eggs one by one and beat again.
7. Swift flour and baking powder together and fold it in to the mixture till it is well blended.
8. Pour the prepared batter in the lined cake tin, spreads evenly and tap the tin.
9. Place the tin the preheated oven and bake for 25 – 30 minutes or till done completely.
10. To make frosting, melt chocolate in a bowl.
11. Add melted butter and cream and mix well.
12. Refrigerate till set.
13. When the cake is done, remove from oven, cool and demold.
14. Discard the top of the cake and slice the cake horizontally into halves.
15. Spread a portion of frosting evenly on the base slice, and cover with the upper slice.
16. Spread some more portion of frosting evenly on top with the help of a palatte knife and line the sides as well with the frosting.
17. Clean the palate knife by dipping in warm water and even out the top and sides with the clean knife.
18. Decorate the chocolate cake with wafer straws and biscuits by place them vertically all along the side of the cake.
19. Sprinkle lots of colorful candies, chocolate sprinklers etc. on top and decorate.

Serve.