Whole Wheat Flour- 1 cup Finger millet/ragi flour-1/2 cup Powdered Brown Sugar-1 cup or white sugar-3/4cup Baking Soda-3/4 tsp Cocoa powder -2 tbsp Salt -a pinch Thick yogurt-3/4 cup Milk -1/4 cup +2 tbsp Any flavorless oil -1/4 cup Vanilla essence- 1 tsp Honey-2 tsp Walnuts toasted and chopped- 1/2 cup (optional) For the Chocolate Sauce Milk-2 cups Sugar-4-5 tbsp Cocoa powder-4 tbsp Butter- 1 tbsp Vanilla essence- 1/2 tsp For the Chocolate Curls Dark chocolate- 1 bar Preparation Preheat the oven at 180 degree C for 15 minutes. Grease and dust the baking pan or grease and line the baking pan with parchment paper. Sieve together ragi flour, wheat flour,baking soda, cocoa powder and salt. Method Keep the dry ingredients and the wet ingredients ready. Dry ingredients -Sieved ragi flour+wheat flour+cocoa powder+baking soda+salt and powdered sugar. Wet ingredients – Yogurt+honey, oil, milk and vanilla essence. Now mix the powder sugar with the flour. Mix the milk, vanilla essence and oil to the yogurt+honey mixture. Now mix the wet ingredient with the dry ingredients until well combined. Do not overmix. If using chopped walnuts, dust it with a little flour and mix it gently with the batter. Pour it in a greased baking tin and tap the pan slightly so that the mixture settles evenly.
Now let us prepare chocolate sauce Mix together milk, 4 tbsp cocoa powder and sugar well. Make sure that there are no lumps. Turn off the heat, add butter and vanilla essence to the mixture. Stir well and let it cool completely. Once the cake cools completely, pour the chocolate sauce over the cake. How to make chocolate curls Keep the bar of dark chocolate outside the refrigerator. After half an hour, using a vegetable peeler, peel out chocolate curls. Then refrigerate the chocolate curls until it hardens. Sprinkle over the cake and enjoy!!!
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