Double layered cake

I picked up this idea from my aunt. She used to make amazing triple layered cake of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. I could not get strawberry flavor, so I just made a double layer of chocolate and vanilla.

This is a fairly simple cake, and hardly takes any preparation time.

Ingredients:

• Eggs - 3
• 250 gms all purpose flour
• 225 gms powdered sugar
• 50 gms margarine
• 1/4th cup milk
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp potato powder/flour
• 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts and raisins
• 2 tsps choco powder
• 1/4 tsp vanilla flavor

Effort: 30 mins

Serves: 20 pieces


- Beat the eggs till the mixture is fluffy, care should be taken that the eggs are not beaten till they are stiff. You can use a blender, but I prefer beating with a fork.

- Sieve powdered sugar and mix the margarine with the sieved powdered sugar. There should not be any lumps in the mixture. Add the beaten eggs to this mixture.

- Sieve together potato powder, baking powder and flour. Potato powder makes the cake very soft and fluffy. I learnt this from the Finns, they extensively use potato powder/flour which is called peruna jauhe in Finnish. I am not sure if this is even available in India/elsewhere.

- Fold in the sieved mixture in the beaten eggs/sugar mixture, and keep stirring the mixture with a spatula or with your hand. Add warm milk to the mixture, and stir properly to make sure there are no lumps. You can add more milk if the mixture is very thick. Add the dry fruits.

- Divide the mixture into half. To one half, add vanilla flavor, and to the other half add choco powder.

- Grease the baking tray. Fold the vanilla mixture into the baking tray and spread the mixture evenly. On top of the vanilla mixture, add the cake mixture and spread it.

- Bake at 175-200C in a pre-heated oven (pre-heating should be done at 50C for about 10 mins), it generally takes about 25 minutes to bake this cake. Keep checking every 10 mins. After around 25 minutes, remove the cake from the oven, and insert a toothpick in the middle of the cake to check whether the cake is well baked. If the toothpick comes out clean, then the cake is done.

- Remove the tray from the oven and let the cake cool. Once the cake is cool enough, you can cut it. The layers are unevenly formed and that looks superb ;)

Enjoy the cake with a cup of coffee!

NOTE: The temperatures are in celcius, many thanks to my cousin for pointing out my mistake. I had gotten confused between celcius and fahrenheit :)