Eggless Choco-nut cake

Kitchen tip # 89

by CHEF Kishore
Your Personal Chef.

Eggless 

choco-nut cake

150 gm maida
75 gm Cocoa powder
150 ml sugar (powdered in a grinder )
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
90 ml vanaspati /cooking oil (cannola works the best)
200 ml milk
5 gm baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
juice of one lemon
100 gm chopped Dry-fruits(almonds ,cashews ,walnuts and raisins )

prep#1 
grease a cake mold with butter and drop half of the nuts (excluding raisins ) in this mold and keep aside .

step #1 
Boil the milk , until the quantity reduces to almost half add the powdered sugar, mix well until the sugar dissolves completely , Remove from the flame , let it cool completely add the vanilla essence
step # 2
Add the baking powder /soda /maida /cocoa powder /salt in a large bowl , mix well ,
Sift the dry ingredients through a steel sieve /mesh at least twice . and keep it aside in a large bowl.
step # 3 
Add all ingredients together in a large bowl , Now add the juice of 1 lemon,the oil/vanaspati and add half of the dry fruits at this stage
using a steel Hand whisk or a motorized hand blender mix the cake mix extremely well for about 10-15 minutes and transfer to the pregreased cake mold containing nuts (prep # 1 ) and tap the mold all over for air bubbles to escape .

Now finalize the recipe :-
preheat the convection oven for 20 mins at 200 degrees Celsius , now reduce the temperature to 180 degrees Celsius and put the filled mold in the oven and bake the cake for about 30 minutes .
To check if the cake is done , insert a toothpick or a fork into the cake , if it comes out clean and oily ,your cake is ready.
Wait for an hour for the cake to cool down completely - insert a knife between the cake and the mold to loosen the cake and then invert it into a tray and tap the mold from underneath .
Your chocolate nut cake is ready to be served plain or Slice it up and add a scoop of ice cream and drizzle some chocolate sauce on top .
Or proceed to cover it with whipped cream,ganache and other garnisihings .


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