Eggless Chocolate Cake

This is my first attempt to bake a chocolate cake. I am not much interested in chocolate so I never tried this. But seeing chocolate cakes in so many blogs I thought of trying it out. Amazingly it turned out well and my whole family enjoyed it. It was looking beautiful. I normally avoid frosting the cake, as my family does not like it. This time I tried that too.

Ingredients

• All purpose flour – 2 cup
• Cocoa powder – ¾ to 1 cup
• Vegetable oil – 1 cup
• Icing sugar – 2 cup
• Milk – 1 cup plus 3 table spoon
• Baking powder – 1½ tea spoon
• Baking soda – 1½ tea spoon
• Vanilla essence – 1 table spoon
• Paneer or cottage cheese – 50 gram
• Unsalted butter – 1 table spoon
• Salt – ½ tea spoon
• Drinking or club soda – ½ cup

Method

• Sieve all purpose flour, cocoa powder, icing sugar, baking soda and baking powder twice or thrice; mix well with hands.

• Grind together paneer, milk (3 table spoon) and butter (1 table spoon) to make a puree; then add this puree with oil, one cup milk, pureed paneer and vanilla essence in a mixi jar and run for few seconds.

• Now pour this in flour cocoa mix and fold it gently; lastly add ½ cup drinking soda and mix well.

• Grease the baking container with little butter and dust with some flour; pour the mix and level it; I baked it in my microwave/convection/grill oven in cake mode by setting weight of the mix as 1200 gram; it took almost 55 minutes to bake.

• Now baked chocolate cake is ready.

• I then did frosting by cutting the cake diagonally.
• Frosting:
  • Icing sugar – 1 cup
  • Butter – ½ cup
  • Blend both items and do the frosting.

• I also used cherry to garnish. Everyone in my family enjoyed this cake. Only frosting has not come out well as I planned due to power interruptions.