The Simplest Cake!!

So now that I have started blogging...I intend to give it a direction.

The most obvious amongst all options was making it a food centric blog...and as I have always maintained cooking is the biggest stress buster for me !!!While wondering which dish to post about...I have finally decided to go ahead with the most basic form of a cake..

(want to start it at a sweet note ;) )

And by mentioning that it is the most basic form of a cake...I mean even its cooking is in the basic form....hence a COOKER CAKE :)

It is a cooker chocolate cake

Ingredients : (I have decided to use the generally used names and not some deadly-sounding English translation of it)

Maida - 1 cup

Milkmaid - 1/2 cup

Sugar -1/4 cup

raisins and cashews as per choice ( I used a cup of them)

Baking soda -1/4 teaspoon 

Baking powder - 1/2 teaspoon

Melted butter - 1/4 cup

Milk - 1/2 cup

So now baking it is the simplest thing one can do...but for the ones who have just begun....you would LOVE it for its simplicity

Start by mixing Maida, baking soda, and baking powder in a bowl and then pass it through a sieve (this is done to bring in air and layers to the mixture...so that the cake turns fluffy)

Mix in a separate bowl - sugar, milkmaid, butter and half the quantity of milk. Make a fine paste of it.

Mix the ingredients of both bowls and make a smooth batter while adding rest of the milk.

Take approximately 1 1/2 cup of salt and put it in the pressure cooker and spread it evenly. Remove the whistle and put it on the gas at low flame. Heat it for 2-3 minutes

Take a bowl (preferably aluminium) grease it with oil and sprinkle some flour on it. Pour the batter into this bowl and put it in the cooker (when the salt is warm post 2-3 minutes)

Close the lid (make sure you have removed the whistle) and now chill for 45 minutes before you look at the brilliant achievement!!!!!!!!

Once out of the cooker let it cool for 5 minutes and go pour all your creativity on to it...layer it with liquid chocolate..nuts...gems or whatever you like!!!

Taste it and say YUMMMMM ;)

Was quite simple...I'm sure you would agree....next ill come up with something which needs at least some technique :P

Till then...happy eating :)