EGGLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE

If there’s one cake recipe to have under your belt, it’s a crowd –pleasing chocolate version what will take you from children’s birthdays to your next dinner party. This chocolate cake recipe is very basic and that to with wheat flour so healthy too.

A simple and easy recipe eggless whole wheat chocolate cake …..yes the cake is made with whole wheat flour. So one can enjoy this cake without any guilt.
I have already made chocolate cake few times before but this is with egg less and my daughter's make so very special. The chocolate cake is soft, spongy , moist and had a lovely texture to it. I am not a trained baker but manage to bake cakes.....thanks to my daughters who loves to try and eat different things. Because of them only I am learning and trying different cakes and all. I used to make cakes with the scratch, I never buy any ready made mixes. This chocolate cake is really really good. One of the best chocolate cake I have made at home. It was better than the chocolate cakes we get outside. I was searching for the simple chocolate cake and google took me here. I wanted this cake to have a very homely look, because I was baking it for my daughter....who is crazy about homemade baked goodies. We just cover it with chocolate ganache and using white melted chocolate she made the design over it.

INGREDIENTS:

2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour

5 tablespoon Cocoa Powder

1 teaspoon Baking Powder

1 Cup Sugar

100 gms Butter

Few drops of Vanilla Essence

3 Egg or 1 tin Milkmaid

Chocolate Ganache [as required]

½ Cup Sugar Syrup

Milk [if required]

METHOD:

STEP 1 – Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes.

STEP 2 - Mix all the dry ingredients and keep them aside.

STEP 3 – Mix butter and sugar till the mixture becomes creamy.

STEP 4 – To this sugar-butter mixture add eggs/ milkmaid and vanilla essence to it and mix well.

STEP 5 – Add the flour mixture into the butter-sugar mixture in small batches. Mix it well and fold it.

STEP 6 – Add little milk if the batter is too thick and dry.

STEP 7 – Grease the cake mould and pour the mixture to it.

STEP 8 – Bake the cake in the pre-heated oven for about 35-40 minutes at 175 degree Celsius.

STEP 9 – Rest it in oven for 5 minutes and then take it out of the oven and keep it over the wire rack and cool it completely.

STEP 10 – Make the chocolate ganache.

STEP 10 – Drizzle the sugar syrup over the cake which helps to keep the cake moist.

STEP 11 -  After cooling cake completely pour the chocolate ganache over the cake and spread evenly.

STEP 12 – Decorate the cake as per your liking, chill it and serve it.

Cut the cake into desired sized pieces and serve to your loved ones.

You can enjoy this yummy chocolate cake with vanilla icecream as my family love to have this.

NOTE: In this recipe I had given the eggs option also but I have used milkmaid so mine is without egg cake.

CORN-SPINACH SANDWICHE

Few days before I have seen so many posts of sandwiches from my friends on food groups on FB. So wanted to try sandwiches for breakfast and made this delicious and cheesy sandwiches with corn and spinach as I had all the ingredients there in my refrigerator. I have heard that this is a winning combo of course, but never tried before. Today I am going to share the recipe of Corn-Spinach grilled sandwiches which are easy to make and very good option for morning breakfast. The corn-palak can be had plain or can also be stuffed in sandwiches or wraps. Very easy and simple to make and filled with the goodness of corn and spinach and taste is just awesome. The procedure of making corn and spinach mixture is really easy and it is made in one step. Here I added cheese slice as don’t have cheese cubes with me.  You can try them for childrens birthday parties or kitty parties or for evening snack too. Perfect snack for kids for short break in school. This is quick and interesting enough too. At my place, any kind of sandwiches are our favourite. We usually have them as a light meal and sometimes enjoy them with a bowl of hot soup. I made it with white bread but you can use other bread too for this recipe. So give a try for this sandwiches on the weekends and enjoy.

INGREDIENTS:

 FOR Filling:

1 tablespoon Butter

2-3 Garlic Cloves crushed roughly

½ Inch Garlic crushed roughly

1 Cup Spinach, rinsed well and chopped

1 Cup Sweet Corn Kernels

2 tablespoon All Purpose Flour

½ Cup Chilled Milk

2-3 tablespoon Cheese

Salt to taste

½ teaspoon Curshed Black Pepper

½ teaspoon Chilli flakes

FOR Sandwiches:

6 Bread Slices

Butter for grilling

METHOD:

STEP 1 – Boil the corn kernels in water with little salt and turmeric powder. Once cool to touch, separate the kernels. [you can use frozen corn kernels]

STEP 2 – Also chop spinach and crush the garlic and ginger together.

STEP 3 – Heat the butter in a non-stick pan on medium heat.

STEP 4 – Once it is melted add crushed ginger and garlic in it and saute for a minute or till the raw smell goes away.

STEP 5 – Then add milk to it with all purpose flour, mix it well so that no lumps form. Always use the milk directly from the refrigerator so you won’t get any lumps of flour.

STEP 6 – Continuously stir it and when it comes to boil then add pepper powder, chilli flakes and salt in it and mix it.

STEP 7 – Simmer the heat and add chopped spinach to the pan and mix well.

STEP 8 – Add boiled corn kernels in it and mix well and sate for 2-3 minutes.

STEP 9 – Finally add cheese to it and mix it. The mixture should be really thick likepaste. If it is runny then sandwich will get soggy, soft quickly.

STEP 10 – Stir it well and turn off the stove.

STEP 11 – Remove the mixture to a bowl, so that it gets cool faster.

FOR Assembling Sandwiches:

STEP 1 – Take bread slices and spread butter on one side of each bread.

STEP 2 – Now spread the creamy corn-spinach mixture over one slice of bread.

STEP 3 – Cover it with another slice of bread. Repeat the same with the rest of bread slices.

STEP 4 – Now heat a grill pan on medium heat. Grill the sandwiches on it with little butter.

STEP 5 – When get crispy from one side, apply butter on other side and flip them and grill from another side. This butter will help to crisp up the bread.

STEP 6 – Press them lightly with spatula [don’t give too much pressure]

STEP 7 – When done, remove it to plate and slice it using sharp knife and serve hot sandwiches to your loved ones.

Serve the hot grilled corn-spinach sandwiches with tomato ketchup and green mint chutney and enjoy.