I baked this beautiful cake with lots of love for my friend's daughter. She is such a cute little adorable chatter box that you can't resist to spend time with her. One day she told me " I love chocolate cake but I don't prefer any topping on that" :))))) then I asked her "due you like any fruits or any nuts with that ??", she simply replied "nopes" and ran away. So just thought to make her happy with a simple chocolate sponge cake. Before preparing this I just had my fingers crossed because these days the kids are too choosey and specially me who doesn't know a lot about kids :)))). But yes the cake came out very light, spongy, moist and full of flavor. The best part - its eggless, I replaced eggs with buttermilk. So lets quickly see the ingredients followed by the method.
Ingredients :
I
have divided the ingredients list in two parts- the dry & wet
ingredients. This way it will be easy for you to follow this.
Dry ingredients:
- All Purpose flour/Maida/Plain flour - 1 cup + 2 tbsps
- Baking Powder - 1 tsp
- Baking Soda - 1 tsp
- Cocoa Powder (unsweetened) - 1/4 cup
- Salt - a generous pinch
Wet ingredients :
- Brown sugar - 1/2 cup
- White granulated sugar - 3/4 cup
- Buttermilk - 1 cup (at room temperature)
- Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
- Vegetable Oil - 1/4 cup
- Black coffee - 3/4 cup (optional) To prepare, just add 1 tsp instant coffee powder in 1/2 cup boiling water
Method :
- First preheat the oven at 180°C. Grease & flour the baking tin, if you want you can line with parchment paper/Butter paper.
- Sieve the dry ingredients together atleast 3 times and keep aside, this give more aeration in the flour and helps in making the cake light.
- In other bowl mix oil + sugar + Buttermilk + Vanilla essence. After they are well combined add the dry ingredients and fold in gently.
- Once mix well, add the boiling coffee (If you are not adding coffee then just add plain boiling water).
- The batter will be runny, but that's the way it has to be :)))
- Pour the batter in tin.
- Bake it on the middle rack for 45-50 mins or unless a tooth pick inserted in the cake comes out clean. Mine took exactly 50 minutes. But keep checking after 40 -45 minutes as every oven vary :)
- When done, take it out and give a rest of 2-3 minutes, demold and cool on a rack.
- Tadaaaaa your cake is ready.
Note :
- If you are adding egg, then add one egg and make the quantity of buttermilk half and also the baking soda will be halved.
- Coffee gives a very nice kick to it therefore I added otherwise its optional. Boiling water helps it making moist.
- If you don't have brown sugar simply replace it with white one.
- For the buttermilk - just add 1 tbsp of lemon juice/white vinegar to 1 cup milk, allow it to stand for 5 minutes. Your buttermilk is ready.
Priyanka :))))
