Name: Chocolate Fruit Basket
Prep time: 60 min
Total time: 60 min
Ingredients: 75 gm All purpose flour (Maida); White butter(home (made) - 75 gm, home); 30 gm Icing sugar; 2 tsp Cocoa powder; 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence (optional); 200 gm Fresh cream; 40 gm Icing sugar; 1 tea Mixed fruit pieces; Strawberries for decoration

Chocolate Fruit Basket

Delicious chocolate cake topped with mixed fruits

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Cuisine Kerala

Servings people

Ingredients

For the cake:

75 gm All purpose flour Maida
White butter(home made) - 75 gm, home
30 gm Icing sugar
2 tsp Cocoa powder
1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence optional

For the icing:

200 gm Fresh cream
40 gm Icing sugar
1 tea Mixed fruit pieces
Strawberries for decoration

Instructions

Sieve maida and cocoa together.
Beat the butter and icing sugar well.
Add vanilla essence and beat again (optional).
Add the sieved mixture to it and mix well.
Fit a star nozzle to a piping bag, fill with the mixture and pipe rounds in individual basket moulds (approx. 8 moulds).
Bake in oven at moderate temperature of 180ªC/350ªF for about 25 minutes.
Cool and un-mould the baskets.
Beat cream and sugar meant for icing.
Fill the baskets with fruit pieces and pipe the sweetened cream on top.
Decorate it with strawberries.