Basic Eggless Chocolate Cake | How to make eggless chocolate cake?
Author: Vindhya Desai
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: World
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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
First let us start with the dry ingrdients. Add whole wheat flour into a bowl
Add other dry ingrdients to it. Unsweetened cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, coffee granules/powder
Sift all ingredients together to mix them well and also to incorporate air into the mixture. Keep aside
In another bowl, add sugar, add chilled water. Mix till sugar is dissolved
Pour in oil and whisk lightly
Add lemon juice and whisk again
Next start adding the sifted dry ingredients, a third at a time to the liquid mixture. Lightly mix as you go
Repeat till dry ingredients mixture is added to the cake batter
Lightly fold the batter
Into a well greased pan, pour the cake batter
Tap the pan on the counter top to release any air bubbles. Pre-heat oven to 200 Deg C
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
To check if the cake is done, insert a clean toothpick/skewer and check if it comes out clean
Let it cool for 5 minutes
Invert the cake onto a plate or cake stand
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
Place this bowl over simmering hot water. Mix lightly. Butter, chocolate chips melt together and mix with sugar
Now add cocoa powder and mix into a smooth paste. Turn off heat. This will be the chocolate ganache frosting
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
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
Now using a sifter, add a tbsp of icing sugar and cocoa powder mixture and sift on top of the cake
The cake is now ready
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/