Rich Chocolate Cake

This was was made for anta's b'day.

INGREDIENTS FOR CAKE
185g butter (again we used the regular pasteurised butter)
2 tsp vanilla essence
1 3/4 cups castor sugar (we just used plain sugar, ground it in a processor)
3 eggs
2 cups self raising flour (go back to the previous recipe - 1 tsp baking powder to 1 cup processed flour / maida)
2/3 cup cocoa
1 cup water

INGREDIENTS FOR CHOCOLATE ICING
90g dark chocolate
30g butter
1 cup icing sugar (again since we ran out of it we used regular sugar in powdered form)
2 tbsp water (i think we added more water than that - just went by feel of the icing)

TO MAKE CAKE
Combine butter, vanilla essence, sugar, eggs, sifted flour, cocoa and water in a large bowl and beat at low speed with an electric mixer till combined and then at medium speed for 3 min. (for a lil while the batter appeared like it had curdled but then it turned out ok)
Grease a pan and pour in the batter.
Bake at 180deg C for approx 1 1/2 hours. Stand for 5 min before removing to cool.
Once cold, spread the icing.

CHOCOLATE ICING
Melt Chocolate and butter in a bowl over hot water (we used one big bowl with hot water over which we put a smaller bowl)
Gradually stir in the icing sugar and slowly mix the hot water to make a spreadable consistency. We used more water (around 3-4 tbsp) to make it pourable consistency. Then we poured the icing gradually to make parallel lines over the cake to gradually ice the entire cake and let it drip off the sides.

NOTE - another experiment tried by sanju was to put some of the extra batter into small steel bowl (katori) with a piece of cadbury's dairy milk inside. Turned out good as well.