ARMENIAN CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH ALMONDS

An Armenian friend taught me how to bake this exotic cake, she is a professional and has her own bakery in Armenia,so you can just imagine what a great experience it was learning from her,I really loved the rich, velvety, nutty taste of this superb cake.I tried to learn other dishes too, but most of the ingredients were unavailable here in India, so all we did was make loads of cakes and she also made a wheat based yogurt soup, which was also very nice.I will definitely be making this cake a dozen times over, the rich frosting/icing is particularly special, here's the recipe....

Ingredients-

• Flour-2 cups


• Baking powder-3 tsp


• Powdered sugar-3/4 cup


• Salt-1/2 tsp


• Egg-1


• Milk-1 cup


• Melted butter-1/4 cup


• Finely ground almonds-1/2 cup


• Cocoa powder-2 tbsp

for frosting-

• Full cream milk-2 cups


• Cocoa powder-2 tbsp


• Sugar-2 tbsp


• knob of butter/refined oil

Method-Preheat oven, line and grease a cake tin.Take a large clean bowl, add all the ingredients and whisk together till just mixed and little lumpy, pour into pan and bake at 200C for 45 minutes, it will rise well.Take a small saucepan and add ingredients for the frosting, boil rapidly for 20-25 minutes till thick,add butter/oil, let cool.Ice cake with frosting and decorate with some slivered almonds, here your Armenian chocolate cake is ready to be served...yummmmm...so easy and yet so elegant...

This lovely cake is off to-Let's go nuts-Almonds event and to Poornima's for the love of chocolate event

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