Skip to main content

Eggless Chocolate Cake

Today, its the Birthday of my beloved Husband. Its lent time, so we are not using non-veg:.... So I decided to make an Eggless Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Frosting for him....





Ingredients
For Cake
  • All Purpose Flour (Maida) - 1 and 1/2 cups (150 gms)
  • Coco Powder - 1/2 cup (50 gms)
  • Thick Curd - 1 cup (250 ml)
  • Powdered  Sugar - 1 cup (200 gms)
  • Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
  • Baking powder - 1 tsp
  • Butter - 100 gms (in room temp:)
  • Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
For Chocolate Frosting (Optional)
  • Fresh Cream - 50 ml
  • Semi Sweetened Dark Chocolate - 50 gms: (grated)
  • Butter - 25 gms:

Preparation Method
  1. Sieve together maida and coco powder twice and keep aside.
  2. Cream sugar and curd until sugar completely dissolves. 
  3. Add baking powder, baking soda to the curd mixture and mix well.
  4. Leave aside for 5 mins and you can see the bubbles appearing.
  5. Now add vanilla essence,butter and mix well. 
  6. Next slowly add maida-coco powder mix in portions at a time and blend with wet ingredients. 
  7. Beat well with a blender / whisk until creamy and thick.
  8. Preheat oven to 200 deg C for 10mins. 
  9. Grease a butter paper, lay it in the cake tin / loaf pan and pour the batter to the tin and keep it ready. 
  10. Bake in preheated oven at 200 degree C for 10 mins, then reduce temperature to 180 deg C and bake it for 25-30 mins or till a tooth pick or knife inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. 
  11. Allow the cake to cool down for 10mins, then invert and remove the butter paper. 
  12. Boil fresh cream using double boiling method.
  13. When the cream start boiling, add grated chocolate and switch off the flame.
  14. Add butter and mix well, till the chocolate dissolves and butter melts and it become thick and creamy.
  15. Spread the frosting to the cake using a flat spoon or spattle evenly.
  16. Keep aside untouched, atleast for 2hrs.
  17. Cut into pieces of your choice and enjoy the yummy, super moist, sweet cake.

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Pachor / Rice Cooked in Jaggery Syrup

Pachor is rice cooked in jaggery syrup with coconut. Pachor will be served in churches in central travancore (especially in Kottayam) during feast.   Ingredients Cooked Rice - 2 cups Jaggery (grated) - 3/4 cup Coconut (grated) - 3/4 cup Salt - a pinch Nutmeg + Cardamom + Dry Ginger + Cumin - 1 tsp (powdered) Ghee - 2 tbsp  Sliced Coconut - 1/2 cup Preparation Method Fry sliced coconut in ghee and keep aside. Melt jaggery in one cup of water, strain and keep aside. To a pan add cooked rice, melted jaggery, coconut and salt; mix well and cook till the coconut and rice absorbs the jaggery syrup and become thick. Add the spice powder and fried coconut along with ghee; mix well and remove from flame and allow to cool. Enjoy the sweet and warm Pachor. Note: You can use any rice, I used the matta (brown) rice.
4 comments
Read more

Bangalore, India to Dublin, Ireland amidst Covid-19

We, (myself, my husband, and our ten years old daughter), travelled from Bangalore to Dublin through Paris on 13th August 2020, as my husband got an employment offer from Ireland. We all were excited about the relocation but cautious. When our friends and relatives came to know that we travelled during the pandemic, many, who wanted to join their spouse or family abroad, but concerned about travelling with kids, started pinging us asking for the precautionary measures we took and the travel details. This is my humble attempt to write down the preparations for the travel and how we travelled.  Preparation       As soon as we came to know that we have to travel from Bangalore to Dublin any time in August, we started our planning.      We avoided going to any shops for purchase, in order to avoid the interaction with the public so that the risk can be reduced. We purchased all the items which were required for our travel, including shoes, from Amazon...
17 comments
Read more

Chocolate and Vanilla - Caramel Cake

Chocolate and Vanilla - Caramel Cake is made by me as per the request of my daughter for her birthday. As I prepared it for birthday party, the cake was weighing around 2.5Kg. You can half the ingredients and make it as small cake. Caramel Syrup Ingredients Sugar - 1 cup Butter - 1 tbsp Hot Water - 1/4 cup Preparation Method Add sugar to a wide bottom thick pan and spread evenly. Keep the flame medium and cook till the sugar start to melt and the color changes to golden brown. Reduce flame to low, add butter and mix well. Slowly pour in the hot water, mix well and make sure that there is no sugar crystals; remove from flame and keep aside to cool down. Chocolate Caramel Cake Ingredients All Purpose Flour  - 1 and 1/4 cups Coco Powder - 1/4 cup Baking powder - 1/2 tsp Eggs - 3 nos Sugar - 3/4 cup (powdered) Unsalted butter (in room temperature) - 100 gm Salt - A pinch Vanilla essence - 1/4 tsp Milk - 1/4 cup Caramel Syrup - 2 tbsp Preparation Method Preheat oven to 350 degree F (180...
Post a Comment
Read more