Choco Nut Tea Cake

Choco-Nut Tea Cake
Recipe source - Lakshmi Nair

Ingredients

Flour - 1 cup

Cornflour - 4 tbsp

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Butter - 1/2 cup[100 gms]

Powdered sugar - 3/4 cup [ I took a heaped 1/2 cup of sugar and powdered it]

Eggs - 2

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Milk - 1/2 cup

Nuts - 1/4 cup[I used crushed Badam]

Chocolate chips - 1/4 cup (optional)

Method

Preheat oven to 180C.

Grease and line a loaf tin.

Sift together flour,cornflour and baking powder,reserve.

Cream together butter and powdered sugar till light and fluffy.

Add eggs one at a time and beat well.

Mix in the vanilla essence.

Spoon the flour mix about 3 tsp at a time alternately with milk and beat well till you get a smooth batter.

The batter would be thick&not a flowing one--mix in the nuts and chocolate chips.

Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 30 minutes or till a toothpick inserted comes out clean.*

Remove the cake to a wire rack and let it cool down.

Cut into slices and serve.