Eggless Chocolate Cake

I baked this cake for my Birthday to share with my friends.... My friends loved this super moist egg-less cake.
My hubby surprised me with lovely bunch of flowers & chocolates.... Thank you dear for the same...

Ingredients

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

Preparation Method

Sieve together maida and coco powder twice and keep aside.
Cream sugar and curd until sugar completely dissolves.
Add baking powder, baking soda to the curd mixture and mix well.
Leave aside for 5 mins and you can see the bubbles appearing.
Now add vanilla essence,butter and mix well.
Now slowly add maida-coco powder mix in portions at a time and blend with wet ingredients.
Beat well with a blender / whisk until creamy and thick.
Preheat oven to 200 deg C for 5mins.
Grease a butter paper, lay it in the cake tin / loaf pan and pour the batter to the tin and keep it ready.
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.
Allow the cake to cool down for 10mins, then invert and remove the butter paper.
Cut into pieces of your choice and enjoy yummy, super moist, egg-less chocolate cake.

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