Whole wheat Eggless cake

This is my first trial with whole wheat. I am still an amateur in the world of blogging, so didn't think of taking photos or anything, but decided to write about it. One day!
Cooking is always been one of my, rather most, favorite of activities. My cooking shows my mood, and relieves my stress and tension too. I love to cook for people, also get jittery when they are literally unknown to my cooking. I have been baking for quite a few years now, started in my college days with old-days mud oven, then on to microwave cakes and now the very 20th century ovens. This doesn't mean am great at baking, just that am still learning.
It's not been easy baking cakes when I prefer not to use eggs. So i have to fine tune the recipes to eggless versions. That is just what happened to the present one -

Now to my whole wheat eggless cake.

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat Flour: 1 1/2 cup(I used whole wheat flour from walmart)
Sugar: 1 1/4 cup
Baking Powder: 2 tsp
Oil: 6 tbsp ( I used vegetable/corn oil)
Warm Water: 1 cup
Vanilla Extract: 1 tsp

Mix the dry ingredients, add in the wet ingredients one after another to the dry ingredients mixing well. Pre-heat oven at 350F / 180C. Grease and dust the baking pan. Pour in the mixture. Bake for 20-30 mins. I started testing the cake for baking about 22mins with a fork ( fork has to come out clean). It was done after about 25mins. I let the cake rest for 5 mins ( after I switched off the oven) in the oven. Cooled the cake for about 15mins.

I did not add any coloring ingredient in the cake. There was not even coffee or chocolate. So the color of the cake was freckled whole wheat baked color. you can add color or coffee or chocolate. If flavoring is added, make sure to increase or decrease sugar as needed. Make sure that the consistency of the final mixture is maintained.
Enjoy.

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