Choco flan - the magic cake!

Choco flan or magic cake! Yes really it's a magic. I was wondering how this cake ever happen when I saw the recipe video of this cake in YouTube. So I wanted to try it out and. See if it really works. A very simple recipe, you just need a chocolate cake batter and a flan layer which has milk, condensed milk and eggs.

For me the magic happened but in a different way. The flan was supposed to be settled down and the chocolate cake layer over it. Mine was literally an interesting magic where the flan has settled right in the middle, acting like a sandwich between the chocolate layers. It was so beautiful to see the cake when it came out of oven after 50 mins of baking. I think the consistency difference of my chocolate cake batter has made the flan settle down in middle. More trials in this would help me understand the logic behind it, I hope.

That doesn't matter where the flan has settled, coz the taste was that awesome and my boys have gone crazy seeing the drooling chocolate sauce over it and of course the chocolate lovers got something to indulge themselves in. I used a bunt pan which gave a donut shape to the cake and when I topped the cake with dark chocolate ganache it resembled a giant donut with chocolate glazing.

I am now convinced about the magic cake and hope you would be also keen to witness it yourself. So checkout my recipe below.

Ingredients:

Chocolate cake

All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cup
Cocoa powder - 1/2 cup
Baking powder - 2 tsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Vegetable oil - 1/2 cup
Brown sugar - 1 cup
White sugar - 1/2 cup
Vanilla essence - 2 tsp
Eggs - 3

Flan

Milk - 1/4 cup
Cream - 1/2 cup
Eggs - 3
Condensed milk - 1 tin
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Method:

Sift together dry ingredients for cake and our wet ingredients to it and mix till combined.
Grease the bunt pan with butter and pour the batter.

In a food processor mix together all ingredients for flan. Pour the flan over the chocolate cake layer gently by using back of spoon. Cover with aluminum foil and bake at 170 c for 50 mins.

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