Eggless Chocolate Walnut Cake

I have this need to finish the day, everyday with a sweet. My wild sweet tooth, gets me to bake something or the other every weekend. You know why a cake, because it is sweet; and why weekend? Ah that's when I plan for the rest of the 6 days in the week :)

Now why walnut? A honest mistake to eat nuts everyday steered me towards Costco instead of the local grocery; yes you guessed it right, a big bag of walnuts!

Coming back to the cake, I made a version of this a weeks ago without chocolate. It was a huge success, shared with friends. But what I in't like about it was the colorless sponge with the walnuts staring on top. So I decided to bake a chocolate version! An the feedback I got is deliciousness!!

This is one cake you can eat in any version, plain sponge or chocolate cake. Go ahead and make this, everyone around will be pleased.



Ingredients:

3/4 cup  Sugar

1 cup Yogurt (I used home-made curd, super good)

1 1/4 tsp Baking powder

1/2 tsp Baking soda

1 cup oil (I used olive oil)

1 tsp Vanilla essence

1/2 cup Cocoa powder

1 cup All purpose flour

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

This takes about 10-15 mins to prep and about 25-30 mins to bake.

Steps in Preparation:

1. Pre-heat oven at 350F. Grease a 9x9" pan.

2. Mix and sift together flour and cocoa powder.

3. In a glass bowl beat together sugar and yogurt, until homogeneous.

4. Add baking powder an baking soda an beat until air bubbles form on the mixture. Let mixture stand for few minutes.

5. Add oil and vanilla essence, and again beat until homogeneous.

6. Add flour-cocoa mixture in small parts and beat together to the rest of the batter.

7. Pour into pan, arrange/sprinkle walnuts on top.



8. Bake until inserted toothpick comes out clean.

9. Cool the cake for 30 mins and another hour before slicing. Batter was so yummy that I couldn't wait for the cake to cool :)



Comments

Paru said…
Seems interesting. Tempting for sure.
June 11, 2017 at 9:45 AM
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