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Chocolate cake is a cake flavoured using cocoa powder and other cocoa products.    The recipe below is an easy guide to making a moist and fluffy chocolate cake that melts in the mouth (Yummy)...    The recipe is not only easy but quick as well. Ingredients • 2 Cups flour • 1½ Cup sugar • ½ Cup cocoa powder • 1 Cup hot coffee(dissolved) • ½ Cup Vegetable Oil • 1 Cup milk • 3 tsp Baking powder • 1½ tsp Baking soda • 2 Eggs • ½ teaspoon  salt • ½ teaspoon chocolate/rum flavour ( optional) ✓ The above measurements would give you twice the one in the image above Procedure ✓Put all your dry ingredients in a mixing bowl  ✓Dissolve your coffee in 1 cup of hot water ✓If you are using powdered milk, dissolve your milk in water before use ✓ Pour all liquid ingredients together( coffee, milk, vegetable oil and egg) and pour over the dry ingredients ✓Mix until it's well incorporated pour into your baking pan and bake your cake... Bon Appetit!

Buttercream is a type of icing usually made using butter and confectioner sugar, although other fats such as lard and margarine can be used but the resulting taste is different compared to using butter. Butter gives your buttercream the fantastic taste you would like.    Buttercream can be used as filling cake layers, for crumb coating, for coating and as a whole icing for cake, as topping for cupcakes and desserts.       THINGS YOU WILL NEED Ingredients • 500g Icing Sugar • 250g Butter (at room temperature) • Flavour(of choice) • Milk Tools • Mixing Bowl • Spatula • Wooden Spoon ( if you're not using mixer) Procedure 1. Whip using the whisk attachment (if you are using a mixer)/mix with a wooden spoon your butter for 8-10 minutes ( your butter should be creamy now) 2. Sift in your icing sugar bit by bit making sure it is well incorporated before adding another. Scrape excess that sticks to the sides of the mixing bowl with a spatula. 3. Add milk ( to a nor

The simple and concise recipe below can be easily used for making a moist, fluffy and delicious nigeria cake that melts in the mouth, if carefully followed. THINGS YOU WILL NEED Ingredients • 500g Flour ( preferably cake flour) • 500g Butter • 1 cup Sugar •  500g Egg ( without shell) • Spices (Cinnamon, Nutmeg) • Flavour (Vanilla extract) • 2½ tsp Baking Powder  • Milk (optional) Note : You may increase the quantity of your ingredients for a bigger cake • To make your own cake flour at home check my post on simple baking ingredients substitutes here Tools • Baking Pan • Mixing Bowl/Mixer • Wooden Spoon • Spatula • Oven • Sieve/Strainer • Egg whisk • Kitchen Scale BEFORE THE MIXING PROCESS ✓ Make sure all tools are clean and dry ✓ Make sure you have all the ingredients ready ✓Mix the dry ingredients together ( flour, baking powder, baking soda,spices) ✓Separate the egg yolk from the egg whites and whisk the egg white to a st

Oven is a device used for cooking (baking and grilling) of foods. It can be powered using electricity, gas, charcoal and wood (in local bread bakery)    The Nigeria local oven is usually powered with cooking gas and/or charcoal and can be used for baking and grilling.    The common Nigeria oven is usually made up iron sheets and painted black(black is a good absorber and bad radiator of heat) and uses charcoal and cooking gas.    For perfect baking using the Nigeria local oven, below are few but genuine things to put into consideration;    ✓Preheat your oven for 10-15minutes before baking. ✓Use good quality and sufficient quantity of charcoal(for the charcoal type) ✓Ensure there is enough gas in your cylinder before baking. ✓Balance your oven by putting it on a levelled surface. ✓Balance your oven tray and rack. ✓Place your cake on the 2nd rack from below to avoid burnt cake. ✓Lag your oven (If needed) ✓ Let your cake bake for at least 25 minutes before opening the ove

Cake is a sweet food made from a mixture of egg, flour ,sugar and other ingredients. Cake is usually served at different occasions mostly birthday party, wedding, graduation, baby shower and other joyful gatherings.         Cake baking is beyond just mixing your ingredients in any proportion and putting it straight into the oven to bake.    Below are few precautions (Do's and Dont's) to be kept in place for a well finished and perfectly baked cake. ✓PREHEATING YOUR OVEN  Preheating your oven is one of  the most crucial parts of cake baking because a badly preheated oven i.e. too low or too high oven temperature results in a badly baked cake e.g cake sinks at the middle.             There are different types of oven to choose from ranging from local to electric oven. The local oven uses charcoal and   or cooking gas as means of heat supply to the baked goods while the electric oven uses electricity.     Electrical ovens usually need to be preheated for 10-15minu