Basic Eggless Chocolate Cake | How to make eggless chocolate cake?
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Serves: 6 people
 
Luscious and chocolatey basic eggless chocolate cake
Ingredients
  • 1 Cup whole wheat flour
  • ½ Tsp baking soda
  • ¼ Cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • ½ Tsp instant coffee powder/granules
  • ⅔ Cup granulated sugar/golden granulated sugar/white sugar
  • 1 Cup chilled water
  • ¼ Cup sunflower oil/vegetable oil/filtered olive oil
  • 1 Tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 Tsp vanilla extract
  • Icing sugar + unsweetened cocoa powder for dusting on top
For Frosting:
  • ¼ Cup milk/bitter sweet chocolate chips/chopped chocolate
  • 2 Tbsp butter
  • 3 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 3 Tbsp sugar
Method
  1. First let us start with the dry ingrdients. Add whole wheat flour into a bowl
  2. Add other dry ingrdients to it. Unsweetened cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, coffee granules/powder
  3. Sift all ingredients together to mix them well and also to incorporate air into the mixture. Keep aside
  4. In another bowl, add sugar, add chilled water. Mix till sugar is dissolved
  5. Pour in oil and whisk lightly
  6. Add lemon juice and whisk again
  7. Next start adding the sifted dry ingredients, a third at a time to the liquid mixture. Lightly mix as you go
  8. Repeat till dry ingredients mixture is added to the cake batter
  9. Lightly fold the batter
  10. Into a well greased pan, pour the cake batter
  11. Tap the pan on the counter top to release any air bubbles. Pre-heat oven to 200 Deg C
  12. Keep the cake pan in pre-heat oven at 200 Deg C for 30 minutes. Depending on your oven it might take an additional 5 minutes to bake
  13. To check if the cake is done, insert a clean toothpick/skewer and check if it comes out clean
  14. Let it cool for 5 minutes
  15. Invert the cake onto a plate or cake stand
  16. To make chocolate frosting, make a double boiler. Keep a vessel half filled with water on stove. Bring this to a simmering boil. In another bowl, add butter, sugar and chocolate chips
  17. Place this bowl over simmering hot water. Mix lightly. Butter, chocolate chips melt together and mix with sugar
  18. Now add cocoa powder and mix into a smooth paste. Turn off heat. This will be the chocolate ganache frosting
  19. Line a plate with foil or butter paper before frosting the cake. Now add a blob of chocolate ganache frosting on the centre of the cake
  20. Start spreading out the mixture with a spatula, palette knife. Spread out the mixture with circular motions till all of the frosting coats the top surface. You can even do the sides
  21. Now using a sifter, add a tbsp of icing sugar and cocoa powder mixture and sift on top of the cake
  22. The cake is now ready
  23. Once it cools completely cut into big pieces and serve
Notes
You can also add maida/all purpose flour instead of whole wheat flour or a mix of both

Always try to use unsweetened cocoa powder so that you can control the sweetness of your cake

Frosting can be omitted completely and served plain

Use natural vanilla extract and not artificial essence

For icing the cake keep a piece of butter paper or foil below your cake which can then be pulled off so that you get a clean cake
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/eggless-chocolate-cake/