Eggless Chocolate Cake

Eggless cakes have never fascinated me.   But I always thought I should try my hands on it.  This is a recipe one of my colleague’s wives passed on in Sept 2009.  It took me 4 years to really make this, an ideal example of procrastination. I should have tried it long back as it is easy, simple and no ingredient fussy.  This is especially for my colleague Farea, as she is allergic to egg, and has been asking for Eggless cake recipe. And thanks to Joythi bhabhi for this recipe.

Ingredient

Maida – 1cup

Sugar powder/castor sugar – 1 cup
Curd – 1 cup
Coco powder – ¼ cup
Oil – ¼ cup ( I have used Rice Bran Oil but you can use any cooking oil which does not have flavor)
Vanilla essence – ½ tsp
Baking soda – ½ tsp (also known as metha soda in hindi and appakkaram in Malayalam)
Fresh cream – 1 tbsp

For Icing

Cooking chocolate – 100gm
Fresh cream – 3tbsp
Hundreds and thousands – to sprinkle on top

 Method

1.      Pre heat the oven at 120^oC

2.      Sieve together maida, coco powder and baking soda. And keep aside.

3.      With a hand blender mix together curd and sugar for a minute.

4.      Now add oil & vanilla essence and keep on mixing

5.      To this add the flour mixture and mix well.

6.      Pour the mixture in a greased and dusted baking tin.

7.      Bake at 120^oC for 40 min or till the knife come clean.

8.      Remove from the pan and let it cool

For Icing

1.      Mix the chocolate and cream in a pan

2.      In very low flame,  heat this mixture with continues steering.

3.      When it starts melting remove from the fire and keep steering.

4.      Pour this mixture immediately on the cake and spread evening.

5.      Sprinkle hundreds and thousands.