Chocolate cake

Name: Chocolate cake
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 1 cup flour; 2 cups sugar; 2 eggs; 1/2 cup cocoa powder; 2 tblspn baking powder; 2 tblspn baking soda; 1 cup milk; 1 tspn salt; 1/2 cup vegetable oil; 1 cup boiling water (optional); Vanilla extract; Grated coconut

Fatima Sa'id @cook_14351835

Kano

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Fatima Sa'id @cook_14351835

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Ingredients

1 cupflour
2 cupssugar
2eggs
1/2 cupcocoa powder
2tblspn baking powder
2tblspn baking soda
1 cupmilk
1tspn salt
1/2 cupvegetable oil
1 cupboiling water (optional)
Vanilla extract
Grated coconut

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Steps

1

Preheat oven to 175 degree Celsius
2

Grease and flour the pans
3

In a large bowl, mix together sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
4

Add the eggs, milk, vegetable oil and vanilla extract. Mix for about two minutes on medium speed of mixer
5

Stir in the boiling water last. Batter will be thin, then pour evenly into the prepared pans
6

Bake for 30 minutes in the preheated oven until test done with a toothpick
7

Cool in the pans for 10 minutes then remove to a wire rack to cool completely
8

Decorate with mixed cocoa chocolate and sprinkle the grated coconut on top