CHOCOLATE CAKE

For Icing
Cooking butter - 300 gms
Icing sugar- 150 gms
Cocoa- 2 tbsp
Sugar syrup - 1 recipe

For sauce-
Cooking chocolate- 1/2 bar
Milk- 40 ml

Whisk butter and icing sugar with elctric whisk till creamy ( approx 5 min). Remove 1/4 portion white icing and keep aside. To the rest add 2tbsp cocoa powder.

Prepare sugar syrup and keep to cool. Slit the chocolate sponge cake into 3 layers. Level the top layer. Sprinkle sugar syrup on 1 layer and apply icing. Level it. Similarly do for the 2nd and 3rd layer. Level all the 4 sides of the cake. Place the cake on cardboard covered with foil and apply icing on all sides. keep in fridge for 5-10 minutes till set.

For sauce-
Melt 1/2 bar of cooking chocolate on double boiler and add 1/4 cup boiling milk to it.
 whisk well to remove lumps and strain it. pout this chocolate sauce on the cake and keep it again in fridge to set. when set pipe the cake edgings with butter icing.


Sugar Syrup:
Sugar- 1 cup or 3/4 cup
water- 1 1/2 cup

boil the above together for 2- 3mins. and strain.