Eggless chocolate cake (with butter)
For a dairy free eggless cake, see here
Lot of friends asking for recipe. So i decided it's time I write a blogpost :)
Ingredients
(The following are portions for a 9 inch dia round baking tin. I usually use half the proportions for 6-7 inch tin
A cup is 200ml volume
All purpose flour (maida) 2.5 cup
cocoa 1/2 cup
sugar 1.5 cup
butter (unsalted) 1 cup
milk 1 cup
baking powder 2.5 teaspoon
baking soda 1/2 teaspoon
honey 2 teaspoon
vanilla essence 1.5 teaspoon
If you wish to make a plain cake, replace the cocoa powder with flour, and add 1/2 teaspoon more of vanilla essence. If you wish to make any other flavour, say mango, you may have to adjust the portions of milk and sugar to accommodate for the sweetness and water content of the mango juice.
Procedure
Remove the butter from the fridge about 2-3 hours before you start preparing the cake. The butter should be at room temperature
Mix the flour, baking powder and cocoa and sieve thrice. Set aside.
Prepare the baking tin . Grease and dust the tin.
Slightly heat the milk to make it lukewarm. Add the butter, sugar, honey and vanilla essence. mix well. Let the sugar dissolve. Usually takes about 5-10 min
Turn the oven on to preheat at 170deg celcius.
Mix the sieved flour mixture spoon by spoon in the milk mixture. Ensure no lumps are formed. If the oven is preheated by now, add soda to the mixture, mix thoroughly and fast, pour the mixture in the baking tin and place in the oven. Both coils should be on. Bake for 35 min or till inserted toothpick comes out clean.
Alternately, one can cook this cake in a pressure cooker/perssure pan too. The pressure pan/cooker must have a plate at the base to help distribute heat evenly. It is commonly available for all standard cookers. While using pressure cooker, it is best not to use the cooker lid, and instead cover it a stainless steel plate. If lid needs to be used, use without gasket and weight, but best use another plate.
Preheat the cooker for 10 min, and place the tin (or any steel/tin/aluminum circular tin). The only thing need to keep in mind that the height of the cake cooked in the cooker can be only about an inch and a half (batter height only 1/3 to 3/4 inch), so portions and vessels need to be adjusted accordingly .
Lot of friends asking for recipe. So i decided it's time I write a blogpost :)
Ingredients
(The following are portions for a 9 inch dia round baking tin. I usually use half the proportions for 6-7 inch tin
A cup is 200ml volume
All purpose flour (maida) 2.5 cup
cocoa 1/2 cup
sugar 1.5 cup
butter (unsalted) 1 cup
milk 1 cup
baking powder 2.5 teaspoon
baking soda 1/2 teaspoon
honey 2 teaspoon
vanilla essence 1.5 teaspoon
If you wish to make a plain cake, replace the cocoa powder with flour, and add 1/2 teaspoon more of vanilla essence. If you wish to make any other flavour, say mango, you may have to adjust the portions of milk and sugar to accommodate for the sweetness and water content of the mango juice.
Procedure
Remove the butter from the fridge about 2-3 hours before you start preparing the cake. The butter should be at room temperature
Mix the flour, baking powder and cocoa and sieve thrice. Set aside.
Prepare the baking tin . Grease and dust the tin.
Slightly heat the milk to make it lukewarm. Add the butter, sugar, honey and vanilla essence. mix well. Let the sugar dissolve. Usually takes about 5-10 min
Turn the oven on to preheat at 170deg celcius.
Mix the sieved flour mixture spoon by spoon in the milk mixture. Ensure no lumps are formed. If the oven is preheated by now, add soda to the mixture, mix thoroughly and fast, pour the mixture in the baking tin and place in the oven. Both coils should be on. Bake for 35 min or till inserted toothpick comes out clean.
Alternately, one can cook this cake in a pressure cooker/perssure pan too. The pressure pan/cooker must have a plate at the base to help distribute heat evenly. It is commonly available for all standard cookers. While using pressure cooker, it is best not to use the cooker lid, and instead cover it a stainless steel plate. If lid needs to be used, use without gasket and weight, but best use another plate.
Preheat the cooker for 10 min, and place the tin (or any steel/tin/aluminum circular tin). The only thing need to keep in mind that the height of the cake cooked in the cooker can be only about an inch and a half (batter height only 1/3 to 3/4 inch), so portions and vessels need to be adjusted accordingly .
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