The Microwave Bday Cake

I live in China (even though Im Italian) and here most apartments dont have an oven but just a microwave, which reduce a lot the selection of food I can cook. Anyways, it was my bf's bday and I decided make him a cake just using our microwave.

Ingredients:

• 125 g sugar (2/3 cup)
• 125 g flour (1 cup)
• 2 eggs
• 100 g butter (2/4 cup)
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 4 tbsp milk (1/4 cup)
• 30 g cocoa powder (1/4 cup)
• 120 ml milk, 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 200 g whipping cream
• Chocolate Cream Pastry
• MMF (to decorate)

Melt the butter in your microwave at max heat for 1/2 min. Mix it with the sugar.

Add the eggs and beat together

Slowly add the flour and baking powder and then the cocoa powder

Pour in some milk.

Drop the mixture in a glass bowl covered with baking paper.

Cook at max heat for 6 min. When it done, slightly open the oven and let it cook down (dont take the cake out until it is cold).

In the meantime whip the whipping cream, prepare the chocolate cream pastry and heat some milk and cocoa powder

With a wet knife cut the cake into 3 slices (even 4 if it is high enough) and water each slice with the chocolate milk you have just made.

Place one slide on a plate and spread it with chocolate cream pastry, cover with the second slide and spread more pastry and cover with the last slide.

Spread whipping cream all over the cake, so that it is all covered.

Decorate it with the MMF roses and tufts of whipping cream. Refrigerate for a couple of hour before serving

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