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Chocolate Fruit Basket

Delicious chocolate cake topped with mixed fruits
Prep Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour
Cuisine Kerala
Servings 9 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.
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