I have a sweet tooth (blame my mom who spoilt me with cakes, pastries and chocolate - life as the only child, my sister came though and reduced my ration).

Sustaining my sweet lifestyle was becoming too expensive for me so I started watching my mom in the kitchen and went for further training.

I recently baked a yummy chocolate cake using a very easy recipe, so don't worry, even if you don't have a mixer, I've got you covered.

**Things you'd need;**
* bowls
* sieve
* turning stick or whisk
* baking pan
* oven or stove
* butter (for greasing the pan) or anti-stick spray

**Ingredients**
* 2 cups 250 ml baking flour
* 2 cups 250 ml granulated sugar
* 125 ml cocoa powder
* 125 ml of milk/buttermilk
* 125 ml of groundnut/canola/olive oil (whatever you have handy)
* 1 tablespoon baking powder
* 1 table spoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 capful of Vanilla flavour
* Nut meg (optional)
* 2 large eggs/3 medium eggs
* 250 ml warm water

**Steps;**
* Sieve the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cocoa powder and nut meg (optional) in a bowl.
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* Break the eggs into bowl and whisk till you get stiff peaks.
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* Add the vanilla flavour, milk/buttermilk, and warm water to the whisked eggs.

* Fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix.
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* You will have a running consistency.
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* Grease your pan and pour in the batter and place in your preheated oven, bake for 30-40 minutes.

* Allow to cool for 10 minutes and remove from the pan. You can serve as it is or dress for occasion.
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**In case of stove top;**
* Pour salt/sand in a pot big enough to contain your pan; preheat and place you cake batter on it. Allow to bake for 30-40 minutes. You are good to go.<hr>

For this cake, I used buttercream icing to dress it.
Recipe;
* icing sugar 500g
* butter 125g
* milk 100 ml
* 1 capful of vanilla flavour


How to;
* whisk butter and add in sieved icing sugar.
* add the flavour and milk.
* mix thoroughly.
* add colours to suit your need.

I used the colour pink, the cream colour was gotten naturally from the butter used.

Here's the finished work. You can enjoy alone or with yoghurt or juice or smoothie or even water. 
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All pictures were taken using my Techno K9 and my business logo was added using PicsArt app
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