Chocolate Cake in Fry Pan

Ingredients

• _____________________For Cake___________________
• All purpose flour 1 and 1/2 cup (188 grams)
• Cocoa powder 2 tablespoons
• Baking powder 1 & 1/2 teaspoon
• Salt 1/4 teaspoon
• Eggs 3 (room temperature)
• Sugar 3/4 cup (150 grams)
• Vanilla extract or essence 1 teaspoon
• Cooking oil (vegetable or canola) 1/2 cup (120 ml)
• Milk 1/2 cup (140 ml)
• ___________________For Sugar Syrup____________________
• Hot water 1/2 cup
• Sugar 4 tablespoon
• Instant coffee powder 1/2 teaspoon
• __________________For Frosting__________________________
• Chilled whipping or heavy cream 2 cups (480 ml)
• Powdered sugar 1/2 cup
• Vanilla essence or extract 1/2 teaspoon
• Cocoa powder 3 tablespoon
• ________________Chocolate Sauce_____________________
• Whipping or heavy cream 1/3 cup
• Semi sweet chocolate 1/3 cup

Directions

1. 1

   Sift all purpose flour, baking powder, cocoa powder and salt together in a bowl and keep aside.

2. 2

   In another bowl take 3 eggs and beat with a hand whisk for 30-40 seconds.

3. 3

   Then add sugar and vanilla in these eggs and beat everything till the mixture becomes smooth. This will take 1-2 minutes.

4. 4

   Now add cooking oil in this mixture and combine it well.

5. 5

   Gradually add the dry ingredients that we sifted and put aside in this egg mixture. Mix well.

6. 6

   Then gradually add the milk and combine it as well. The mixture should be smooth and lumps free.

7. 7

   Cake batter is ready now its time to prepare the cake layers.

8. 8

   We need 8-9 inches of non stick fry pan for this recipe you can even use smaller frying pan but do not use bigger pan than this size.

9. 9

   Put the frying pan on low to medium flame and heat it for 1 minute.

10. 10

    Then grease the pan with oil and put a cup of cake batter in the pan (use measurement cup for exact quantity of batter). Evenly spread the batter in the pan with a spoon or spatula.

11. 11

    Cover the pan and cook the cake for 7-8 minutes or until you see bubbles on top of the cake surface.

12. 12

    Flip the cake and cover the pan again, cook the other side for 2 minutes only.

13. 13

    Carefully lift the cake from sides as it will be too soft and take it out of the pan. Let it cool down and prepare the other 2 layers of the cake repeating the same process. Cool all the layers completely. With this recipe and same pan size 3 layers of cake will be made but if you are using small pan then may be you can make 4 layers.

14. 14

    _______________For Sugar Syrup_____________

15. 15

    In hot water add sugar and coffee powder. Mix everything well and let the syrup cool down.

16. 16

    ________________For Frosting_________________

17. 17

    In a chilled bowl add chilled heavy cream and beat it with electric beater or hand whisk for 1 minute. If you are using hand whisk it will take a lot of effort and time to prepare frosting.

18. 18

    After this add sifted powdered sugar, vanilla and sifted cocoa powder and beat the cream till a stiff peak forms (it should not drop from spoon or spatula).

19. 19

    Put the cream in a piping bag for easy cake layering but you can also directly spread the cream.

20. 20

    __________________For Assembling Cake___________________

21. 21

    Put the first layer of cake on serving plate and spread 5-6 tablespoons of sugar syrup over it.

22. 22

    Spread the whipped cream over it and smooth it with the help of spatula of knife.

23. 23

    Put the 2nd layer over it and repeat the process of sugar syrup and cream on it as well. Continue the process for all 3 layers of cake.

24. 24

    Cover the cake top and sides with frosting.. Decorate the cake as per your choice.

25. 25

    Heat the cream for 40-50 seconds and then add the chocolate in it. Mix it so that chocolate gets dissolve and chocolate sauce is ready. Cool it completely before using on cake.

26. 26

    Pour the chocolate sauce in the center of the cake and spread evenly with a spatula.

27. 27

    Delicious and moist chocolate cake in fry pan is ready to serve.