चॉको केक मोदक | Chocolate cake Modak

Prep time 15 min	Cooking time 60 min
Cousine / Course Indian-Sweet	Servings 11

Ingredients – Cake

Step 1: Making Cake

Preparing Cake batter

Take mixing bowl, add curd, sugar and whisk well till sugar melts
Add oil to the bowl and whisk
Add Sooji to the bowl, whisk, cover and set aside the batter for 10 min
After 10 min, sieve flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder together and add to the batter. Whisk well
Add 1/4 cup milk and whisk batter until milk is mixed with batter
Repeat the process with another 1/4 cup of milk
Now add 3 tbsp milk with continuous whisking until you get the perfect cake batter
Take cake metal tin / bowl, place butter/parchment paper at the bottom to avoid sticking the cake
Pour batter to tin, spread evenly

Baking cake

Take large pot with heavy base, which would fit the cake batter tin, add salt to the pot to cover whole bottom, salt helps with even cooking
Place a metal stand /rack on salt
Cover the pot and heat it for 10 min on low heat

Now carefully place the cake batter tin in the this pot, cover and bake the cake for 45-50 min on low heat
After about 45 min insert a small knife, toothpick in the cake to check if it is cooked, a completely baked cake would not have any batter sticking to the knife/toothpick

Once cake is ready, demold after 5 min, remove the cake from pot, let it cook down completely before using for Modak

Step 2: Making Modak

Ingredients for Modal

Molding Modak

Take crumbled cake, add coconut, mix nuts, condensed milk and mix well
Grease mold with ghee, close it and fill with prepared cake mixture,
Press cake mix in mold, add more cake mixture if needed to fill the mold completely
Remove the modak from the mold
Repeat the steps for remaining modaks

Tips

Whisk cake batter gently in one direction
Cake is made lightly sweet as sweetness of modak is later balanced with condensed milk
Mix nut can be made with almonds, pistachios, cashews