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.