Easy home-made cake with chocolate sauce

Thought not a special day,a cake can do its own charm in lifting up the mood and i kept going back for more.. Ingredients: For the cake: Plain flour - 1 and 1/2 cup Powdered sugar - 1 cup Egg - 1 Refined oil or plain butter - 1/2 cup Baking soda - 1 tsp Milk - 1 cup Vanilla essence - 1 tsp For the chocolate sauce: milk-1½ cups butter-1 oz(30 g) sugar-4 tbsp Cadbury's cocoa powder-4 tbsp cream-2 tbsp cornflour-1½ tbsp vanilla essence-½ tsp Method: Mixture Preparation: 1. Beat the egg very well until it becomes lighter and looks like double the original quantity.(As you do while making omlete) 2. Mix sugar and oil together and stir them pretty hard till the mixture becomes light and fluffy. 3. Add the beaten egg to this mixture. Mix well to blend all ingredients thoroughly. 4. Now prepare a mixture of plain flour (maida) and baking powder and sieve it to avoid any lump. 5. Now gradually add this maida mixture, to the batter prepared by mixing sugar, oil and egg. Note: As you stir the mixture, it will become dense. Add some milk in small amount to make it smooth. Keep on repeating the process of adding maida and then milk as required, till batter is well blended (It should look fluffy/ soft). 6. Add Vanilla essence to the batter and again blend thoroughly. Cake Preparation: 7. Grease the baking tin (or cake tin) with oil and dust it by sprinkling maida over greased surface evenly. Note: Use baking tin of 6 inch in diameter, so that it can easily get into the pressure cooker. 8. Pour the mixture into the greased baking tin. Note: Baking Tin should be made of Aluminium 9. Heat the presure cooker on high heat for 2 minutes. Caution: If baking tin comes into direct contact of the base of cooker, it can harm ( overbake ) the cake. 10. Now put the cake tin containing the cake batter, inside on cooker dish.( Do not put water inside the pressure cooker) 11. Close the cooker lid and do not put the whistle on the lid.Lower the flame from high to low after 2 minutes. 12. Let it cook for 40 minutes, then switch off the heat. Do not open the lid immediately. 13. After 10 minutes open the lid to check whether the cake is done. Put a skewer inside the cake. 14. If the mixture will not stick on it, means that cake is done. Note: You can make the cake without egg. Just add 1/2 cup refined oil more. Make sure that you stir it pretty hard, till you find air bubble in the batter. Chocolate sauce: 1.Blend together the milk, sugar, cocoa powder and cornflour with a whisk until a smooth paste has formed. 2.Transfer the mixture to a saucepan and heat over a medium heat until the mixture begins to boil. 3.Reduce the heat and simmer for 2 minutes. 4.Remove the pan from the stove and add the butter. Stir the butter until it melts and blends into the sauce mixture. 5.Finally, add the vanilla essence and the cream and stir well. Once the cake is cooled,pour the chocolate sauce over it.Serve with a scoop of ice cream.

Egg Pakora

A really easy to make tasty snake that will be a hit with everyone in the family.. Preparation time:25mins Cooking time:25mins Serves 4 Ingredients: hard boiled eggs-6 nos., baking soda-1/4 tsp, chilli powder-1 tsp, ginger garlic paste-1 tsp, gram flour-1 cup, oil-to fry, salt & pepper-to taste. Method: Make a very thick batter by mixing gram flour , chilli powder , ginger garlic paste ,baking soda and salt with water. Cut the eggs into 3 peices.Dip each piece in the batter and fry till golden brown.Make sure the egg is well coated with a thick batter else the egg will explode whereever it touches the hot oil. Serve hot with ketchup or chutney.