Confused about which pound cake you should prepare? Vanilla or Chocolate. And if its chocolate, whether to make a regular chocolate cake or dark chocolate cake? This is one such cake that will answer all your questions, since this has both classic flavors – vanilla and chocolate.
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
1.5 cups whole wheat flour (ghehun ka atta)
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
pinch of salt
2 tablespoon milk powder
Wet Ingredients¾ cup granulated sugar
½ cup thick fresh yogurt/curd/dahi
⅓ cup oil
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
To be mixed together (to be kept aside for 10 minutes)
½ cup milk (room temperature)
1 teaspoon lemon juice
For the second layer (light chocolate layer)
2 tablespoon semi-sweet chocolate chips
For the third layer (dark chocolate layer)
3 tablespoon cocoa powder
3-4 tablespoon hot water
Method- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes.
- In a small bowl, combine ½ cup milk and 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Mix and keep aside for 10 minutes.
- Sift wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together in a bowl. To it add milk powder, mix and keep it aside.
- In another bowl, take sugar, oil and curd. Whisk well with a hand whisk/beater till everything gets combined well.
- Then add curdled milk+lemon juice mixture and vanilla essence. Mix.
- To this mixture, add all the dry ingredients and whisk well. Batter will be thick at this time.
- Now divide the mixture into 3 equal portions. Each portion will be approximately ¾ cup.
For the first layer (vanilla layer)
- Add about 1-2 teaspoon water to one portion and mix well.
For the second layer (light chocolate layer)
- In a microwave safe bowl, take 2 tablespoon semi-sweet chocolate chips and micro for 30-40 seconds till chocolate melts.
- You can also melt chocolate in double boiler. Add melted chocolate to one portion and mix.
For the third layer (dark chocolate layer)
- In a bowl, combine cocoa powder and hot water. Add hot water gradually. We added 4 tablespoon water.
- If you feel you are not able to combine the mixture, add little more water and mix. Whisk well till there are no lumps. Add this mixture to one portion and mix.
Assembling the cake
- After this process, we will have 3 batter – vanilla, light chocolate and dark chocolate.
- Grease a cake tin with oil/butter and line it with a parchment paper. We have used baking tin of 10 inch x 4 inch.
- Now pour dark chocolate layer in the bottom. Tap 2-3 times to level the mixture.
- Then pour light chocolate layer on it, followed by vanilla layer on top.
- Bake at 180 degrees Celsius in a pre-heated oven for about 35-40 minutes. Baking time will vary for every convection. Be alert and check after 35 minutes.
- Remove from the oven insert a toothpick into the middle of the cake. If it comes out clean, cake is ready. If it doesn’t come out clean, bake for a few more minutes.
- Cover and let it cool down a bit. Once slightly cooled, invert on a wire rack.
- Serve and enjoy this yummy triple layer chocolate cake.