We have tweaked her recipe a bit to come up with this wonderful cake!
For Cake:
2 cups All Purpose Flour
1 cup Cocoa powder
2 cups sugar
1 cup butter
1 cup yogurt
11/2 cup Reduced Fat Milk
2 tbsBaking Powder
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Vanilla Essence
For Icing/Decoration:
470 ml Heavy Whipping Cream
1/2 cup Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla essence
Chocolate bar for chocolate shavings and chocolate powder
Cantaloupe/Honey Dew
Procedure:
Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. (make sure you sift them to avoid lumps).
Now mix butter and yogurt in a separate bowl and whisk it thoroughly.
Now add the dry mixture and milk little by little alternating them, beginning and ending with the dry mixture.
Mix all the ingredients well!
Make sure you have preheated the oven to 350 F.
Grease the cake pan well with butter or oil.
Sprinkle some flour to just dust the surface well. This helps while removing the cake from the pan.
Pour the cake mixture in the pan.
Now you are all set to put it in the oven :)
And the WAIT begins....
If you are impatient, you can start preparing for the icing ;)
For Rasgullas:
We used ready made Haldirams Rasgullas.
But we will put up a separate blog for Rasgullas...so watch out!
For Icing:
Whisk heavy cream and sugar nicely till it gets the consistency of whipped cream!
Add a little essence just to get rid of the smell of the cream ;)
For Decoration:
Prepare chocolate shavings using a vegetable peeler.
Grate some chocolate to use it as chocolate powder.
Scoop out the melon like icecream scoops using a scooper and then cut into halves.
It can be done using a spoon as well :)
Just insert the spoon a little deep to get a good height for the scoop. Run the spoon through in a circle and there you have a lovely scoop similar to your half rasgulla :)
Your wait should be almost over...check the cake after 35 minutes.
You can test it by inserting a toothpick at the centre of the cake. If it comes out clean, the cake is baked perfectly!
Now let the cake cool well...very important!
Once its cooled well, remove it from the baking pan onto your serving plate. It is very difficult to move the completed cake with icing and rasgulla layer.
Now slit the cake horizontally into two layers.
Use a knife dipped in water to make sure the cake does not crumble or develop cracks.
Sprinkle some sugar syrup of rasgullas on top of the bottom layer and bottom of the top layer to make it moist.
Squeeze the rasgullas a bit ensuring they dont crumble or are extremely juicy!
Now cut the rasgullas into halves and start placing them all over the bottom layer :)
Dont start having the rasgullas as it is...They will taste yummier in the cake!
Now apply some icing cream that was prepared on top of the rasgullas to glue them to both the layers of the cake.
Carefully place the other layer of the cake over the rasgullas.
Wowww....you are almost there :)
Now apply the remaining cream on the top of the cake carefully completing each stroke.
Use a butter knife for this, its very easy
Now spread the chocolate shaving leaving the circumference. We will use that to place the melon.
Sprinkle chocolate powder/grated chocolate along the side.
Now place those half scooped melons along the circumference.
Yipppiieee!! We are done :)
We love to hear about your experience baking the cake and how much did it titillate your taste buds!
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