"SLC-S24/W2 | Chocolate cake"

_{Hello Everyone. I am @shiftitamanna
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Assalamu Alaikum everyone. Today I am going to publish my entry for participating in the second week of the Steemit Engagement Challenge's cake challenge. This week's challenge is even more awesome. Because this time we have been given a chocolate cake as a challenge which is one of my favorite food. So without further ado, let's move on to the main task of the challenge.

Make the given recipe in detail with step by step pictures. Include your name tag with the date at the final presentation of the recipe.

First of all, I will share the recipe for a chocolate cake. I have tried to make the cake according to every instruction of the challenge organizer. I am hopeful that I was able to make the chocolate cake that way. So first I am presenting below the basic ingredients for making chocolate cake with measurements and the accessories I need to make the cake with pictures.

Cooking Ingredients :

Ingredients

Accessories

How to Make :

Step : 01

• First I will take 100 grams of butter in a clean bowl. Then I will add 100 grams of sugar in the bowl. Then I will mix the two ingredients well. Then I will add two eggs to the mixed ingredients. Then I will mix the rest of the ingredients with the eggs well.

Step : 02

• Then when the three ingredients are mixed well, I will add vanilla to it. It gives a very good taste to the cake which is very full of flavor.

Step : 3

• Then I will take flour and cocoa powder in two bowls. And in the flour I will add baking powder.

Step : 4

• Then I will take a sieve and sift the flours. Then I will sift the cocoa powder through the sieve in it. When this process is finished, I will mix the three ingredients in a bowl.

Step : 5

• Then after mixing the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder, I will add the liquid made with butter. Then I will mix everything well.

Step : 6

• Once it was mixed well, I added some liquid milk to it. Then I mixed it well with a spatula.

Step : 07

• Then I took a cake mold. I took a piece of paper and cut it into a round shape and placed it in the mold. Then I took some oil and spread it on the paper.

Step : 08

• Then I poured the liquid cakes into the mold. Then I shook the mold and made it even.

Step : 09

• Then I put the chocolate in the microwave to bake. I set the time to bake the cake for about 40 minutes. Then after the specified time, I took the chocolate cake out of the microwave. After taking it out, I transferred the chocolate cake from the mold to a bowl with the help of a knife. After that, it was time to serve.

Final Presentation :

List the prices of the ingredients you used in making the recipe, one by one.

I have listed the price of the ingredients used in making the chocolate cake one by one below and presented its Bangladeshi price, steem price and how much it is in USD. And finally I added the total amount of money it cost me to make the chocolate cake. And I have attached the list below after converting the cost to Steem and USD. So let's have a look at the list.

The Bangladeshi prices of the above Ingredients listed here are currently (1 Bangladeshi Taka = 18.63 Steem) and (1 United States Dollar = 121.50 Bangladeshi Taka)

Is this your first time making a chocolate cake? Or have you made a chocolate cake before?

I have made this chocolate cake many times before. Not only for home but I have also made chocolate cakes to participate in various challenges and cooking competitions on Steemit. I have one fond memory of chocolate cake and that is the day I got my first dolphin I made a dark chocolate cake. And by making that chocolate cake, I participated in the Steemit challenge. This is a very memorable day for me. Apart from making normal chocolate cakes, I have also made chocolate cream roll cakes, chocolate moist cakes and I have good experience in making cakes.

Explain the importance of the cocoa powder/chocolate powder used in the cake. Also, why do you use less cocoa powder than flour?

I think the main ingredient for making chocolate cake is cocoa powder or chocolate powder. Because the chocolate powder has many functions in making the cake. For example, cocoa powder is used to create flavor in chocolate cakes. Cacao powder is also important for imparting brown to reddish color to the cake. Because the chocolate color usually comes from the cocoa powder. Moreover, we all know that cocoa powder contains high levels of nutrients that are beneficial for our body as well. Therefore, using cocoa powder in making chocolate cake gives an incomparable taste in baking and dessert.

Cocoa powder is used less than flour because cocoa powder absorbs more water than other ingredients in making chocolate cake which is a very good aspect. If the same amount of flour and cocoa powder were used, the chocolate cake would be unbalanced. Its structure would have hardened because using the two materials in equal proportions would have caused condensation between the two, preventing moisture absorption. So to balance this chocolate cake, cocoa powder is used less than flour.

I would like to invite my friends @kouba01, @sergeyk, @jyoti-thelight to participate to participate in Challenge.

All images in this post are my own and taken with Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra device.

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