Moist Chocolate Cake(With no eggs & butter) - Step by Step Recipe

I googled & googled for a very basic chocolate cake recipe and there were soooo many....But my constraint was no eggs, butter and it should be very simple. Trust me, any beginner can try this and I guarantee it wud turn out perfect without any flaws. But the quantity and mixing need to be noted down very carefully as it may be turn sticky and not cooked inside if inaccurate.The picture may not be all that great but taste is no lesser than a brownie.

I've recommended this recipe to few friends, cousin they too tried & agreed with me about the taste. And finally it was certified by my niece, she liked it soo much, and when I heard that she took it to school daily till it got over I was on top of the world!! Am waiting for my lil one to taste it too.....though have given her few pinches of this cake, she was licking & didnt leave my fingers :)

Dry Ingredients:

• All purpose flour - 1 and 1/2 cups (225 gms)
• Cocoa powder - 3 tbsp
• Baking soda - 3/4 tsp
• Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Granulated Sugar - 3/4 cup (200 gms) [Increase it to 1 cup if you dont use choco chips]
• Chocolate Chips - 1 tbsp

Wet Ingredients

• Water - 1 cup (250 ml)
• Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp
• Lemon juice / Vinegar - 1 tbsp (I used lemon juice)
• Oil - 1/4 cup (60 ml)

Method:

Take water in a bowl, add vanilla essence, sugar, lemon juice and oil. Mix well till sugar completely dissolves . Keep aside.

Now take flour, baking soda, baking powder and coco powder and sift together twice atleast to make sure the flour, soda and baking powder and coco powder is evenly spread out.Then slowly add the the sifted flour mixture to the wet ingredients mixture may be in 2 parts.

Gently mix in one direction until no lumps are formed, then add half of choco chips and gently mix it. The batter is runny like you see in the pic.Preheat oven to 180 deg C for 10mins. By the time grease the cake pan with few drops of oil and pour the batter into the cake pan and top it with remaining choco chips. Bake it at 180 deg C for 35-40mins check if a fork inserted comes out clean.

Make sure to cool completely say 10-15 mins and then invert carefully and cut into pieces and enjoy.

My Notes:

• The mixing and measurements matters the most for the perfect moist cake. Have updated the recipe again with measurements after 2-3 trials.


• Select the cake pan accordingly as the batter should be atleast half of the pan when you pour it. Also I've halved the measurements from the orginal recipe.


• Using chocochips is purely optional but I recommend adding it. Also if you dont add chocochips increase sugar to 1 cup