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  Yes.... You heard it right.. An eggless Chocolate cake.. and guess wot ?? It didnt taste any different and the texture and the softness stayed right throughout :) This was one of my happy baking...time and I will truely cherish.... Using an egg is not an issue at all.. The thought that if I bake a cake at any point of time in India, the elderly crowd wud just stay away coz its got an egg... So didnt want to drive them away from such delectable desserts .


Well.. since this recipe has my first layering & frosting effort... I did read a couple of blogs , webpages to know how its really done and tried to understand the different kinds...Felt it was difficult .. only until I started the process. Didnt realise when it was all done...
Madhuram's Eggless Baking is the lovely blog that I came across everytime in my search .Totally appreciate her for the choice of ingredients and  the substitutions. For the Original Cake Recipe click here . I have done a couple of variations - Used Self Raising flour instead of All Purpose flour ,Low fat stirred yogurt instead of Silken Tofu. Used Low fat Baking Vegetable Oil instead of Canola Oil & eliminated the use of salt. I tried a Ganache frosting and not the one in the recipe..

Sending this lovely delectable layer cake to

• Show me your Cake Event hosted by Divya of Dil Se
• Cakes & Cookies Event hosted by Sara of Sara's Corner
• In Love with Delectable Desserts, Pastries & Ice Creams Event hosted by RV of Food for 7 Stages of Life
• Cakes & Cookies Event hosted by Mahima of Indian Vegetarian Kitchen

INGREDIENTS:

For the Cake:

Self Raising Flour	:2 Cups
Baking Powder	: 1 Tsp
Baking Soda	: 2 Tsp
Unsweetened cocopowder	: 3/4th Cup
Granulated White Sugar	: 1.5 Cups
Low fat Vegetable Oil for lighter baking	: 1 Cups
Hot Coffee Decoration	: 1 Cup
Milk	: 1 Cup
Vanila Extract	: 1 Tsp
Low fat stirred yogurt	: 1 Cup

Ganache Frosting :

Butter	:2 Tsp
Chopped Dark Chocolate	: 80gm
Chopped Milk Chocolate	: 100gm
Creme fraiche or ( Heavy Cream)	: 300ml
Vanilla essence	: 2 Tsp
Royal Icing Sugar ( Silver Spoon Brand)	: 200gm

DIRECTIONS :

Preparations:

• Hot Coffee Decoration: Mix 1 tsp of Dogwe Egbert Instant coffee with 1cup of Boiling Water .
• Yogurt Mix : Mix every 3 table spoon of stirred yogurt with 1 table spoon of water.

Method:

Cake Preparation:Method for any cake preparation is the same..Preheat the oven . Mix all the dry ingredients & wet ingredients separately. Prepare a well and incorporate the wet ingredients slowly  into the dry and blend well.We follow just the same process here too.

• Preheat the oven to 180 C . In a large mixing bowl , mix Self Raising Flour , Baking Powder , Baking Soda  & Granulated Sugar . Swift them well with a spatula and make a well kind in the center.
• Add the butter at room temperature , Hot coffee mix , Milk , Vanilla essence  & stirred yogurt one by one with regular mixing after each incorporation.
• Using an hand blender , wisk the mix for about 1-2 minutes until all the lumps are gradually gone.
• Grease the Cake tin with a lil butter and dust a bit of coco powder all around. Pour the cake mix in the tin  upto 3/4th and place it in the oven.  Remaining mix could be poured into a muffins mould.
• Bake for nearly 1h -1.10h until a wooden skewer inserted comes out neat. (My cake wasnt done in 30 minutes like most recipes said.)  Let it rest in the wire rack for a while( about 30 minutes) until the cake cools.This is a highly impatient period when we cant wait to see out results of our efforts.

For Frosting :

• Heat the sauce pan filled upto 3/4 full of water in a medium flame and place another vessel over it.
• Add 2 tsp of butter and once it begins to melt , add  the broken chocolate pieces in batches and keep stiring until they all melt. Incorporate Creme fraiche and a couple of drops of vanilla essence and keep stiring for 30 seconds. Include the icing sugar and stir for another 2-3 minutes.
• Keep this indulgent frosting aside for 30 minutes (room temperature) until it cools a bit and starts holding itself.

Assembling:

• Carefully turn the cake upside down from the baking tin and place it in a large plate. Since I didnt use 2 separate cake tins , I had to carefully slice it horizontally with a large knife and keep it aside in another large plate. This gives us 2 layers. We will need aditional flat spatula's to move and lift the cake coz there is a tendancy to break.This procedure requires FRAGILE handling.
• Now over one of the cake layers , spread the frosting with a knife and allow it to flow in the sides.
• Gently and carefully place the second layer over the first . Pour the frosting all over the cake and gently spread over the top and sides.
• I didnt have any decoration... Wasnt prepared with it.. SO used  Dark Chocolate chips to do the decoration bit.. and  my Indulgence chocolate cake was ready to be served.
• Allow the cake to cool and settle and serve after an hour or the next day.
  

Cheers

It was 17th of this month, that my little missy turned Three Years old..  An age where they become independent... A stage where the toddler makes their own decisions to suit their choices. They stand by them by hook or crook !!Fall on the floor rolling, Throw anything they can get hold off anywhere, bang their head , wee purposefully on the carpet, cry until they fall sick and what not...
Luckily lil miss doesn't do any of these at the moment.Touch wood !!! But her tantrums are different in her own ways!!


My lil miss wakes up in the morning and decides her outfit for the day, her footwear that she feels could pair and her accessories . She even wakes up many morning's now, deciding her chocolaty breakfast ... setting her own conditions... Its such a cute stage, where I feel like giving up on  everything she says..  But being a parent, we need to inculcate goodness, righteousness and mannerism in our children and that doesn't permit me at all...  I set my foot down saying  NO !! and a  condition to contradict..  Infact it was last week I started her Wee training and I had to trade in a sketch pen( she calls them markers) every time she wee-ed in the toilet..   Strange conditions and rewards isn't it ??
Really do not know what else is in stock for me ?? And what are the new challenges I m going to face  in this new Terrible Three Stage.

A few days before that, I had decided to make her birthday cake that we cut on the D- Day evening , after daddy and big brother return from work and school. So we went some candle shopping, picking her Pink No 3 one. A few more things to make it her perfect evening with the family. The big party with friends is planned for the weekend and a lot of things need to b sorted for that.
She has already decided about her Peppa Pig Cake that she wants to cut in the party, some Hello Kitty decorations , a pretty dress and more...  Thats completely a girly affair, I guess !


Two days before the birthday, the mother in me had decided to bake a cake for my daughter's perfect day.. Ingredients check done and we have everything needed for the Cake . A check box ticked in preparation. Guess on the 15th evening or so, when I was Facebook hopping in routine, came across a  Motion Oats picture posted by Sreelatha of Framed Recipes and I have been awe struck how its beautifully done. A few minutes later, Dolphia from Story of Cooks ( as I call her the Motion Queen ) replied with a few pointers.. And that was it !!! (( Don't forget to check out their blog's .. Its lovely ) It was around 6pm in the evening and I decided to give it a go.... With my camera on tripod and a remote in my hand , I sifted flour for a couple of minutes... and caught so many motion images...

Sigh!! An evening when I felt totally excited for achieving what I have been gawking at many times. The only slight hitch was the higher ISO I was shooting at.  So the next morning, I sifted the flour yet again, then some chocolate powder and what not...  Practice and Practice is all that is needed.


Don't forget to check out the recipe for this delicious eggless cake that is right at the bottom...
Did I tell you before ? There are many more celebration chocolate cake recipes in this blog. Before I forget any further let me list them all one by one.
The ever popular Chocolate Cake with Nutella Biscoff Spread and decorated with shards
Ultimate Chocolate Cake
An Eggless Chocolate Indulgence Cake
Indulgence Layered chocolate cake with Chocolate Fudge Frosting
Tiramisu Cake
Chocolate Pound Cake