Chocolate cake

Ingredients:

Eggs 4
Baking powder 5gms
Vanilla Essence 1tsp
Cocoa powder 175gms
Butter 125 gms
Castor sugar/Powdered Sugar 130 gms
Maida 100gms

Method:
Sift maida with cocoa powder with baking powder.
Beat sugar and butter, add eggs to this and beat again.
Add 2 tbsp flour mixture and beat. Repeat adding and beating till the batter is ready and falls with ribbon consistency.
Bake in a preheated oven or cooker till an inserted toothpick or knife comes out clean

Rich chocolate cake

Ingredients:
Chocolate 200gms
Unsalted butter 140gms
8 Eggs(yolks and whites seperated)
Castor sugar 140gms
salt 2gms
Orange zest 5gms

Method:
Preheat oven to 180C

Lightly butter and dust a round cake mould.
Melt chocolate and butter in double boiler to get a smooth mixture.
In another bowl mix the egg yolks, salt, sugar well again place this in a double boiler till mixture becomes pale yellow and the sugar and egg yolks have blended well. Remove from double boiler.

Add greated orange rind to the egg mixture and mix well and fold this mixture into the chocolate mix

Bake at 180C for 30 minutes. Test with a toothpick which when inserted should come out clean.