ScarlettMocha Cake
May 17th 2007 06:21
Delicious Mocha Cake
About Cake
A cake is a form of food that is usually sweet and often baked. Cakes normally combine some kind of flour, a sweetening agent (commonly sugar), a binding agent (generally egg, though gluten or starch are often used by vegetarians and vegans), fats (usually butter or margarine, although a fruit puree can be substituted to avoid using fat), a liquid (milk, water or fruit juice), flavours and some form of leavening agent (such as yeast or baking powder).
About Mocha
Mocha is flavouring of coffee or made by combining coffee and chocolate.
INGREDIENTS
Makes one 18 cm / 7 inch cake
For the cake base
175 gm butter or margarine
175 gm sugar
3 eggs
175 gm self-raising flour
2 tablespoons instant coffee
2 tablespoons boiling water
For the filling and icing
75 gm butter
175 gm icing sugar, sifted
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 tablespoon boiling water
2 tablespoons rum or brandy
For decoration
175 gm walnut halves
1. Base-line and grease two 18 cm / 7 inch round sandwich cake dishes.
2. Set the microwave at medium (Temperature setting: 200 degrees Celsius). Heat the oven.
3. To make the cake base, beat the butter or margarine with the sugar until very pale and soft.
4. Beat in the eggs, adding a little of the flour if the mixture begins to curdle.
5. Dissolve the coffee in the boiling water and leave to cool slightly.
6. Use a metal spoon to fold the flour into the creamed mixture.
7. Fold in the coffee lastly.
8. Turn the mixture into the prepared dishes, dividing it equally between them.
9. Smooth the top.
10. Bake the cakes, one on the turntable and the second on the wire rack for 7 - 7½ minutes, or until the top cake is golden and springy to the touch.
11. Remove the top cake from the oven and transfer the cake from the turntable to the rack.
12. Cook for a further 2½ - 3 minutes, or until cooked.
13. Leave the cakes in the dishes for a few minutes, then turn out on to a wire rack to cool.
14. Remover the greaseproof paper.
15. To make the filling and icing, beat the butter with the icing sugar until pale and very soft. Set aside.
16. Mix the cocoa powder with the boiling water.
17. Gradually stir in the rum or brandy.
18. Beat the cocoa mixture into the butter icing.
19. Reserve a few of the walnut halves and chop the remainder.
20. Sandwich the cakes together with a little butter icing. Spread a little round the sides of the cake.
21. Put the chopped walnuts on a sheet of greaseproof paper and roll the sides of the cake in them.
22. Spread a thin layer of butter icing over the top.
23. Put the remaining butter icing in a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle and pipe a border round the top edge of the cake.
24. Decorate with the reserved walnut halves.
Note:
1. This recipe on cooking times is for a 700 watt microwave cooker.
2. If your microwave has a higher output, then decrease the cooking time, checking two-thirds of the way through the time suggested and continuing to cook as necessary.
3. If your microwave has a lower output, then you will probably have to increase the cooking times slightly. However, there are many factors which influence cooking times, including the actual size of the oven cavity, so always check well-ahead of the maximum time. Remember, you cannot spoil food by removing it halfway through cooking, then putting it back, but once the food is overcooked it is spoilt.
**From “Microwave Cookery” and “Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”**[/SIZE]
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