On the occasion of Chocolate Week, which begins on March 15, we bring you two delicious chocolate recipes. 

No Fat Honey Chocolate Cake

Ingredients: 

• 2 whole eggs 
• 7.5 gm water
• 150 gm demerara sugar
• 30 gm honey
• 5 gm dark rum
• 1.5 gm clove powder
• 2 gm cinnamon powder
• 1.5 gm ginger powder
• 35 gm dark chopped chocolate
• 150 gm refined flour
• 75 gm almond, coarsely chopped
• 30 gm soaking fruits
• 1.5 gm baking powder
• 1.5 gm baking soda

Method:  

• Whip together whole eggs, water, sugar and honey. 
• Combine all the dry ingredients and the soaked fruits. Add the dry ingredients to the whipped egg mixture. 
• Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin. Bake in a preheated oven at 160°C for 30 minutes. 
• Soak it with dark rum once the cake comes out of the oven. 

Chocolate Donut

Ingredients: 

• 500 gm high gluten flour 
• 100 gm sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 1.5 egg
• 100 gm butter
• 25 gm yeast
• 250 ml milk
• Oil for frying

Method: 

• Mix all the ingredients together to make a dough. Let it rest for 10 minutes. 
• Roll out the dough at the thickness of 2 inch and then cut it with a round cutter. 
• Allow the dough to rest till it doubles in size. 
• Deep fry the dough till it turns golden brown. Once it cools, dip in chocolate and serve. 

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Chef Shibendu Ray Chaudhury is the executive sous chef at Renaissance Mumbai.