Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup-flour
• 1/2 cup-sugar
• 1/4 cup-oil
• 2- Egg
• 1.5 tbsp- baking powder
• 1 tsp-vanilla essence
• 1.5 tbsp- cocoa powder
• 1/4 cup-warm water
• 1 pinch- salt
• 1/2 cup- Butter
• 1 cup -icing Sugar
• 2 tsp -strong coffee decoction

Method:

1. Sift the dry Ingredients (maida and baking powder).
2. Dissolve the cocoa in the warm water.
3. Beat the egg and sugar until well blended and creamed.
4. Add the oil, vanilla essence and warm water (mixed with cocoa powder) and mix well. Finally add the flour and fold into the egg mixture.
5. Grease a cake tin and pour this batter into it.
6. Microwave this cake for 5 mins on high.
7. Cool it and decorate with coffee icing or any icing of your choice.
8. Coffee icing:
9. Cream together 1/2 cup of butter and 1 cup of icing sugar.
10. Once well blended add 2 tsp of strong coffee decoction and beat again.
11. You can either cut the cake into 2 and spread the mixture and sandwich the two pieces again or spread all over the cake.

Recipe courtesy of Leena