My Christmas special eggless moist chocololate cake

This festive season of christmas & new year ahead is just feels like incomplete without home-made cakes , is not it ? The aroma of the fruit cakes, cookies in the house these days is just awesome & lifts up your mood. I am always very very fond of cakes and I cant sit eating just one piece of it. This time though little late , I baked a tea time  eggless chocolate cake on Christmas, 25th being a Thursday this time I went the eggless way. It was super moist and every one at home just loved it.


Ingredients:
Flour/Maida: 1 & 1/2 cup
Sugar: 1 cup
Cocoa powder: 1/2 cup
Baking soda: 1 tsp
Vinegar/Lemon: 1/2 tsp/1-2 drops
A pinch of salt
Cold milk: 1 cup
Vegetable oil: 1/4 cup
vanilla essence: 1 tsp
Oil & some flour to grease and dust the cake tin

Method:

Preheat the oven at 180 degree Celsius.

In a mixing bowl, beat well the oil, sugar, milk, vanilla essence. Now add the vinegar and beat again. Remember the milk used should be really cold so that it wont get curdle as soon as you add the vinegar.

In another bowl, sift flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder and fold this mixture into  the wet mixture above. Always follow the cut and fold method to mix the mixture while preparing for cake. Over mixing or over beating would release the air pockets that forms and cake wont rise up and wont get fluffy.

Grease and dust the baking tin with oil & flour. I used my loaf tin , you can use your round or other shaped cake tins as well.  Pour in the mixture and tap the tin a little. Bake this in the preheated oven for about 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick or fork inserted comes out clean. Baking time depends on the  types of ovens we use. So do keep an eye while its under baking process. Mine took exactly 40 minutes.

Once done, take it out of the oven and let it cool on a cooling rack. Slice it and enjoy with your hot cup of tea or coffee. Kids too love this chocolate cake with their hot glass of milk. I baked this cake without any fruit/dry fruits as my kid loves her chocolate cake this way. You can add as per your choice. Just dust the dry fruits you are using with some flour before mixing in the batter.

Enjoy !!