You are a cake lover if you are reading this and so is Rekha and her kiddo..and that’s how we got this brilliant recipe while they participated from Overnderful Mom Bakers Community in Baking Champs #CookWithRD contest.
Here is our recipe of DARK FANTASY SEMOLINA CAKE for Baking Champs with my 10 year old son Joshua. This is a maida free cake recipe taken from Sonilicious blog with a few changes like use of cane sugar and cookies topping(recommend by Josh instead of icing).The basic flour used is Semolina. So here’s the recipe:
Ingredients
- 200 gm Semolina
- 100 gm cane sugar
- 30 gm Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 70 gm Curd/Yogurt
- 80 ml Oil
- 200 ml Milk
- 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp vanilla Essence
- 5 to 6 Dark Fantasy biscuits chopped(optional)
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl take Semolina, powdered sugar and cocoa powder. Mix dry ingredients.
- Add fresh yogurt, oil and chocolate essence to the dry ingredients. Mix it.
- Start adding milk to it to make a batter. Add half of the milk and keep the rest milk aside.
- Prepare a smooth batter and let this batter rest for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile keep the oven for preheating at 180 °C.
- Now add the rest of the milk to the batter. Batter should be of pouring consistency.
- Add Salt, Baking powder and Baking soda to the batter and whisk it well.
- Pour the batter into a greased baking tin (8” inches)
- Bake it in a preheated oven for 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Once cake is baked, take it out from the oven and de-mould it.
- Place the de-moulded cake on a wired rack and let it cool completely
