EGGLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE

Soft,moist, melt in the mouth, eggless chocolate cake with ganache topping makes a wonderful celebration cake for any occasion.

📝 Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups plain flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup plain thick yogurt
• 125 g butter, room temperature
• 1 tsp soda bicarbonate
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• little extra butter for greasing
• 100 ml fresh cream
• 100 g dark chocolate, chopped

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Preparation of the Eggless Chocolate Cake:
2. 2Preheat the oven at 180°C.
3. 3Grease a round 10" or 12" cake tin. Sprinkle a bit of flour into it and move the tin around at all angles till the tin is coated with flour. Turn the tin upside down and bang it over the sink. The excess flour will come off. Or just line the tin with a greaseproof paper.
4. 4Sieve the flour, cocoa, salt and soda bicarbonate together.
5. 5In another bowl cream the sugar and butter till it is light, fluffy and pale in colour.
6. 6Add the vanilla extract and yogurt. Mix well.
7. 7Add the flour mixture and fold in with a spatula or a spoon till all the flour has been mixed in. Do not over mix at this point as the mixture may become glutinous.
8. 8Pour the batter into the prepared tin. Level out the top gently with a spatula.
9. 9Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or till the cake is done.
10. 10A toothpick or knife or fork inserted in the middle of the cake should come out clean.
11. 11Remove the cake from the oven. Leave it in the tin for 10 minutes.
12. 12Remove the cake from the tin. Run a spatula around the edge of the cake.
13. 13Place a plate over the tin. Turn it over. Put the plate doen on the counter top.
14. 14Tap the bottom of the tin gently. The cake should come out onto the plate.
15. 15Place a wire rack over the cake and turn it over with the plate.
16. 16Let the cake cool down completely on the wire rack.
17. 17--- Preparation of the Chocolate Ganache: ---
18. 18Add the cream in a heavy bottomed pan. Place the pan over low heat.
19. 19Heat the cream, stirring it all the time, till it becomes hot. You don't want it to boil.
20. 20Take the pan off the heat.
21. 21Add the chocolate and whisk till the chocolate melts completely.
22. 22Let the ganache cool down completely before pou°ring it over the cake.