Mocha Almond Cake by shireen

                                           Mocha Almond Cake
Ingredients
Butter 4 ounces
Eggs 2 separated
Caster sugar 1 cup
...Flour 1 cup sieved
Almonds ground ½ cup
Sour cream ½ cup
Warm water ¼ cup
Baking powder 1 tsp heaped
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Coffee 1 tsp
Flaked almonds roasted for decoration 2 tbsp
Cocoa powder 2 tbsp
Ingredients for icing
Icing sugar 1 ½ cup
Coco powder 1 tbsp
Butter 2 ½ ounce
Coffee 1 tsp
Boiling water 1 to 2 tbsp as required
Method
greased an 8 inch ring pan well, dissolve 1 tsp coffee in water and blend with 1 tbsp sifted coco powder. Beat 4 ounces butter, 1 cup caster sugar and 1 tsp vanilla essence till light and fluffy add in 1 egg yolk at a time and beat. Also add in ½ cup sour cream and ½ cup ground almonds. Sift together 1 cup flour and 1 tsp baking powder and add to the butter and sugar mixture also mix in the coffee and coco mixture beat egg white stiff fold into mixture, spread into prepared pan, bake on 180 degree for 40 minutes, remove, cool completely, spread with icing and sprinkle with 2 tbsp toasted almonds.
Method for icing
In a bowl mix 1 ½ cup icing sugar, 1 tbsp coco powder, 2 ½ ounces butter. Mix together 1 tsp instant coffee, 2 tbsp cocoa powder in ¼ cups boiling water and add to the butter mixture. Beat till smooth.


    for sour cream mix 1tsp lemon juice in half cup cream ur sour cream is ready Quratulain

for roasted almonds boil almonds,remove chilka and slice them into two halves....just toast them on a hot tawa .....until they turn light brown.