Recipe

Melt dark Chocolate in the microwave. Add a little milk if required.

Cut butter in small pieces and add it to melted chocolate.

Mix well untill butter is melted to form a smoth mixture and keep aside.

Mix sugar, curd and vanilla untill sugar dissolves.

Add chocolate mixture in the curd mixture and mix well.

In another bowl, seive flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda together.

Add flour mixture and milk alternately to butter mixture and mix well.

Add milk in the mixture to adjust consistency.

Mix chopped nuts with small amount of flour and add it in the cake mixture. It would prevent nuts from sinking to the bottom. For better flavour and texture, roast the nuts before adding them to cake mixture.

Grease the cake tin and dust with flour. Remove excess flour.

Pour the mixture and bake it in preheated oven at 180 degree for 30 - 40 minutes.

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Decoration

Mix 2 tbsp sugar with 1/2 cup water to make sugar syrup.

Cut the cake into two slices horizontally and lightly brush them with sugar syrup.

Place the lower peice of the cake and spread chocolate buttercream on it.

Place the upper peice and coat the cake with chocolate buttercream.

Move the spatula in random strokes to make waves like pattern on the buttercream.