Chocolate Sponge cake - Eggless

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.

Enjoy with the frosting of your own choice or like this only.

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.

 Thanks n Happy Baking
Priyanka :))))