Double Chocolate Cake

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
― Washington Irving

I made this love-shaped or heart-loved (whatever!) cake last week for my mom's birthday, but somehow got delayed in posting it...Anyways, "Better late than never"....

Ingredients:

Recipe Source: Newspaper (Sadly, I don't remember which one!)

All purpose flour - 1 2/3 cups

Brown sugar/Granulated sugar - 1 cup

Cocoa powder - 1/4 cup

Baking soda - 1 tsp

Salt - 1/2 tsp

Water - 1 cup

Vegetable oil - 1/3 cup

Vinegar - 1 tsp

Vanilla extract - 1/2 tsp

White chocolate chips - 1/4 cup

Dark chocolate chips - 1/4 cup

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 C.
Mix flour, brown sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt with fork in an ungreased bowl.
Mix in the remaining ingredients except the chocolate chips.
Sprinkle the chocolate chips over the batter.
Pour into a greased baking pan and bake for 35-40 mins or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Cool and remove from the pan and serve.

"Happy Birthday to my Super Mommy....Love u always and here is a heart cake with full of love from us :-)"

By the way mummy, the cake was yummy..... so sad you missed it...*winks*

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