Chocolate Cake with Avocado Frosting - SK Khazana

Ingredients list for Chocolate Cake with Avocado Frosting - SK Khazana

• 1/2 cup Dark chocolate melted
• 1 cup Butter
• 3/4 cup Castor sugar
• 3 Eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla essence
• 3/4 cup Refined flour
• 1/4 cup Cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon Baking powder
• 1/4 cup Milk
• Frosting
• 1/4 cup Butter
• 2 cups Icing sugar
• a few drops Vanilla essence
• 1 pinch Salt
• 1 Avocado
• 1/2 teaspoon Lemon juice
• to garnish Chocolate discs to gar

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180° C.
2. Take butter and sugar in a bowl and beat with a hand blender till light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat with the hand blender after each addition. Add vanilla essence and beat well. Add melted dark chocolate and beat well.
3. Sift together refined flour, cocoa powder and baking powder into the egg mixture and fold it gently. Add milk and mix well.
4. Transfer the mixture into a piping bag. Snip off the tip of the piping bag and pipe out the mixture into individual silicon moulds till they are ¾ filled.
5. Keep the moulds on a baking tray, keep the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 20-25 minutes. Remove the cakes from the oven and set aside to cool.
6. To prepare the frosting, take butter in another bowl, add icing sugar, vanilla essence and salt and beat it with an electric beater until the mixture is pale yellow in colour.
7. Halve the avocado, remove the seed and scoop out the flesh and add to the frosting mixture. Add lemon juice and mix well. Transfer the frosting mixture into a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle.
8. Demould the muffins and place them on a plate and pipe the frosting on top of the cakes. Garnish each cake with a chocolate disc and serve.