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Chocolate Cake

My 2nd attempt on a cake. I was satisfied with the outcome and everybody seemed to like it. Here's the recipe I used: Ingredients: Butter - 250g Castor sugar - 1 3/4 cups Eggs - 5 Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp Cocoa powder - 3/4 cup Cake flour - 2 cups Sodium bicarbonate - 1/2 tsp Chocolate milk - 1 cup Chocolate glaze: Semi-sweet chocolate chips - 1/2 cup Confectioner's sugar - 1 cup Butter - 6 tsp Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp Milk - 1/2 cup Beat butter and sugar until fluffy with a hand mixer. Add eggs one by one, followed by vanilla essence. Reduce mixer speed and add cake flour, cocoa powder and sodium bicarbonate. Add chocolate milk to the mixture and mix until batter is smooth. Heat the oven at 180'C for 5 minutes. Grease the cake pan with some butter and flour. Pour mixture into the cake pan and bake for 45 minutes. Once cake is done, remove from oven and leave to cool. To prepare glaze, heat sugar, semi-sweet chocolate chips, butter, vanilla essence and milk using a double...

Lemon Cake

I somehow never liked baking. The only baking I've done so far have been under my mom's supervision (she makes great cakes by the way). Today, at 2.30 am, I tried my luck baking a cake on my own. And I so regret it. It didn't turn out as expected. I used some recipe I found online. Maybe I should have used my mother's tried and tested recipe instead. Sigh! Oh well, here's the picture of my cake. Please don't laugh.. Updated: More photos of my lemon cake. I didn't ice the entire cake yesterday. My family said the cake was actually quite good so I iced the remainder today.