A few weeks ago my 6yr old niece visited me. I thought it to be a good opportunity to bake a chocolate cake, her favorite and almost every kids delight. I didnt go for a rich chocolate cake, instead I decided to bake an eggless, mildly sweet cake with Chocolate syrup. Ohh yes! I have this big squeezy bottle of Hershey’s chocolate syrup. Given that I dont eat too much icecream I wanted to use it in other ways. Well, this certainly was one delicious way to use up the syrup.
My niece was so excited about the whole procedure. While I was beating the cake , after about 5 mins she asked me , “Mausi, is your hand aching?”. I found it so sweet!
I instructed her not to touch the oven and other heating equipment. She couldnt wait for 30 mins to eat it. She would keep running back to the oven to check how the cake was doing.
After it came out of the oven she was excited. I had to make her understand that I needed to take some pictures before she could dig in. She looked so confused and cute!
Finally the most awaited moment came. We got to eat it ! I liked the mild sweetness. When cakes are hot out of the oven they are so delicious that one can eat an entire loaf (beware!).
Madhuram of Eggless Cooking has given me the Rocking Girl blogger award. Thanks so much for the encouragement. You have always been an active participant on my blog ever since I started off.
I would like to pass this award to Rajani of ‘Vegetarian In me“. She has an exquisite collection of mouth-watering recipes and equally good snaps to enhance the reading experience.
Ingredients :
- 1 cup maida
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1.5 tablespoons of chocolate syrup
- 3/4 cup milk
Procedure :
- Mix the dry ingredients.
- Mix the butter well into the dry flour mix. Let it rest for a few minutes.
- Continue to rub in the butter till little particles of flour are formed evenly.
- Pour in the milk little by little and continue to beat the batter in circles.
- Add the chocolate syrup and mix well.
- Grease a cake mould. Dust it with cocoa powder.
- Preheat oven to 200 deg C. Bake cake for 30 mins at 200 deg C.
- Cool and invert into a serving tray. Cut out your slices and enjoy!
Gotcha!!! your messages don’t open to your wordpress blog btw… did a google – no luck – then by luck found a romaspace on taste of india and just dropped to check if its you!! so hello there! and what a nice blog you have… my first time here! i love the shape of your cake and I am sure it must taste as good. Thank you for the award – its my second blogging award in one day!!!! today’s horoscope never mentioned anything of this sort. but seriously you have some great recipes here – will be dropping in more!
hey i scrolled down and saw your cartoon and remembered that I’d dropped in before – so absent minded of me! typical. but now will never forget have added you to my favorites!
Love the shape if that cake, eggless cake sounds great!:))
Tje chocolate cake looks delicious.
Yeah i do agree chocolate cake is always a huge hit with the kids
hey Roma, a thank you (for u) at my blog as well!
hey roma…the cake looks so tempting!!chocolate cakes are always welcome..and that too eggless!!!surely got to try it!!great entry!!
Dear All, thanks for your wonderful comments!
This cake uses a very simple recipe. With minimum beating and almost no mess in the kitchen, you can even involve kids in the process. If you are trying to finish off that huge bottle of chocolate syrup then this is probably the way to go. For the shape I have to thank the Nilgiris supermarket that had only hexagonal cake tins
Rajani, thanks so much for the Yummy Blog award! I’ll write up my list of favorite desserts in my next post.
Very simple recipe Roma. I also had this idea of using chocolate syrup while baking eggless cake. I see a lot of recipes with condensed milk while baking eggless cakes. So I was wondering why not substitute Choc. syrup because it has the same consistency, more or less. The cake looks very good, especially the shape.
When you get time, send the link in my eggless baking recipes form, I’ll upadate it.
Congrats on the award Roma, you truly deserve it.
delicious cake. beautiful shape too. congrats on the award.
eggless cakes always fascinates me!!!this one is absolutely gorgeous..lovely shape too..congrats on ur award.
how adorable of ur neice
…kids sure get excited over simple things…the cake looks delicious!..and congratulations on the award..
Hi Roma! Will need to bake an egg less cake for my daughter’s birthday as her school will accept only egg less cakes. I will surely try this one!! Thanks!