The 3 eggs we had in the fridge were used up for breakfast with toast. What I did have in abundance is yogurt. I am nothing if not a good wife to a Tamil Brahmin, making sure his beloved thayir sadam is always just 5 mins away.
The consistency is a bit spongy and denser than cakes with eggs but end result was totally delicious.
Eggless Chocolate Yogurt Cake
Makes about 12 pieces
What I Used:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar (add 1/4 cup more if not using frosting)
1/2 cup plain yogurt / curd
1/4 cup butter
2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp baking powder
A pinch of salt if using unsalted butter
How I Made It:
1. Pre-heat oven to 350F / 180 C. Grease a medium cake pan and set aside.
2. Sift together flour, salt (if using), cocoa powder and baking powder or just mix well in a bowl until combined well. Mix sugar and butter at room temperature. Beat well until frothy (2-3 mins on an electric mixer, 7-8 mins by hand using a whisk).
3. Once frothy, add yogurt and vanilla. Mix well.
4. Fold in the flour mixture until just combined. The batter will be a bit thick, its supposed to be that way, don’t worry.
5. Transfer batter to the greased tray and bake for 45 mins or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Cool completely and frost if required.
Easy Chocolate Frosting Recipe
Once I made the cake and tried the first slice, I realised its not sweet enough. I whipped up this frosting very quickly to make it a bit sweeter and it worked well.
Here’s how:
Take a large piece of semi sweet chocolate – about 4 oz – (or use 1/4 cup chocolate chips) and add 1 tbsp butter to it. Melt in the microwave in 30 second intervals until completely melted. Add 1 tbsp icing sugar to this and mix well. If the mixture is too thick, add milk by the teaspoon. I didn’t need to.
PS: If you don’t have a microwave, melt the chocolate and butter in a pan kept over another pan with boiling water. Mix well until chocolate and butter melt completely.
Hey, To be honest I started on this cake with some misgivings. My eggless cakes have often turned out slightly hard. But this one turned out nice and slightly spongy. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
The quantities you mentioned is adequate for a cake that can be eaten by 4 folks. I realised after baking that I need to double all the quantities, if I wanted to spread some chocolatey cheer around.
i tried a moist eggless chocolate cake recently (think it's from a food blog, my friend shared it to me). i tried this recipe as well as the moist chocolate cake and liked that one better. i think adding vinegar makes it softer. i used lemon juice once and that also worked fine. here's the receipe-hope you try.
1.5 cups flour
3/4-1 cup sugar
2-3 tbspoon cocoa powder
1/4 cup oil
1 cup water or milk
1 teaspoon soda
few drops vanilla and pinch salt
1 tbspoon vinegar or lemon juice (to replace eggs)
choc chips or nuts to cover batter on top
mix wet and dry ingredients separately. then mix together. bake for 30 mins with nuts or choc chips on top.
sometimes i feel like it's not very sweet so i add more sugar or use icing. hope you like this.
thank you for all the easy eggless baking recipes in the site.
thanks a lot for the moist chocolate cake recipe! seems quite easy, i will try it very soon 🙂
Hi, there's no cooking oil in this recipe, only butter.
Hi,
The cake looks awesome. I want to try this out but wanted to know if I can substitute cooking oil for butter?
-Vinu
Hi. Thanks for the lovely recipe! Just bake one this afternoon but my cake didn't rise as well as yours and it was small too. But it taste very yummy though. Just not sure where went wrong!
yummyy……! loving it…..:)
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yummy creamy chocalate. a fav of everyone.
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Had an intense craving for chocolate tried out this recipe of ur's since all ingridients were readily available…it turned out Great :). thanks. ~ Deepika