Eggless Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Frosting

Happy Valentine's Day to all my readers :)

I know I am late to wish you guys but as you know I dont get much time to post here due to my 16 months old baby :)  Hope I am excused now :)
Now lets come to today's recipe.  For making our Valentine's Day special, I made a super special chocolate cake and I was so keen to share the recipe with you as the cake came out so yummilicious.

I was so confused whether to make an eggless cake or one with egg.  Finally ended up on eggless and made it.  As I wanted it to look nice I also made a chocolate frosting that complemented this cake very well.

All my efforts paid off when hubby tasted the cake and said DELICIOUS !!!! :)

As I made it specially for Valentine's Day I could'nt take nice clicks but trust me it was the best cake I have made so far.  Soft, moist and super chocolaty.  I recommend to try it once.

Now coming to the frosting.  Its so easy that you wont even think twice to try it out.  It was so yummy that I couldn't stop myself licking the spoon to have those last drops dripping from it hehehehe.  You don't need any cream or butter to make this frosting and the end result will amaze you completely.  
You know what, in this whole recipe I have not used any butter :) isn't it great.. 
I had shared this cake with two of my friends (P and T) also and they too liked it very much.. and gave some nice complements.. that was so nice of you gals :)
Okay so now I am leaving you with this super yummy chocolaty chocolate cake. Do try and enjoy.  Happy Cooking :)

Ingredients:

For the cake

All purpose flour	1 ½ Cup
Coco Powder	¼ cup
Brown sugar	¾ cup
Oil	¼ cup
Baking powder	1/8 tsp
Baking soda	1 tsp
Salt	1/8 tsp
Vanilla essence	1 tsp
Water	1 cup + 2 tbsp
Lemon juice	1 tsp
Choco chips	2 tbsp
Coffee	¼ tsp

For the chocolate frosting

Grated dark chocolate	¾ cups
Choco chips	½ cup
Milk	½ cup
Drinking chocolate powder	3 tbsp
Vanilla essence	½ tsp
Castor sugar	1 tbsp

For honey syrup

Honey	1 tbsp
water	1 tbsp

For decoration

Glaced cherries	3
Colored sprinkles

Method:

• Take a square 8 inch baking pan or two round 4 inch baking pans and grease with oil then dust with some flour.  Keep aside.
• Sift together all purpose flour, coco powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.  Set aside.
• In a mixing bowl, take water and add in brown sugar, vanilla essence, oil and lemon juice.  Mix everything very well so that sugar gets dissolve.  Add coffee and mix again. 
• Preheat the oven at 180 degree.
• Take the flour mix and add in little by little to sugar water mix.  Mix well to avoid lumps.  
• Finally add choco chips and give a quick stir.
• Shift the batter to baking pan/pans.  (If using two baking pans divide the batter equally in both the pans).
• Bake for 35 minutes or till a knife inserted comes out clean.  
• Remove from oven and let it cool for 5-10 minutes (not more than that).
• Take it out from the pan and keep on a wire rack till it gets cool.
• Cake ready.

Frosting

• Take grated chocolate and choco chips in a mixing bowl.  Keep aside.
• Take the milk in a saucepan and put it on flame.  Add in castor sugar and let the milk boil.  Once boiled remove it from the flame and add vanilla essence.
• Pour the boiled milk over the chocolate chips and leave it for 2 minutes.  Whisk well and keep it in the fridge and keep whisking every after 1 hour till you get the right consistency.once the chocolate gets melted with milk add in drinking chocolate powder and whisk again.
• Again put it in the fridge to get the desired consistency.  
• If you want a bit thick frosting add some more drinking chocolate powder or if you want a bit thin frosting add some more milk.
• Frosting ready.

Honey syrup

• In a small bowl, add honey and water.  Mix very well.  Syrup ready.

Process of assembling

• Take the cake, honey syrup and frosting. 
• I made one square cake and cut it into half to make the double layer.  If you make two small cakes, take one cake and brush the honey syrup generously over it.  Repeat the same with the lower part of the other cake.  Leave the cakes for 10 minutes.
• Then take the first cake and put some frosting over it.  Spread the frosting over the cake evenly and sandwich with the other cake and frost it similarly with the frosting.  Cover the whole cake with the remaining frosting from all sides.  Decorate with sprinkles and glaced cherries.
• Keep the cake in the fridge to get it set atleast for 2  hours.
• Enjoy.

Notes:

1. White sugar can also be used in place of brown sugar.
2. The batter should be a bit watery.  If you find it thick add 1-2 tbsp water.
3. You can replace the dark chocolate with choco chips.
4. For the frosting, if you don't have drinking chocolate powder you can decrease the quantity of milk by 1/4 cup to make the frosting.
5. Do not remove the cake from the pan immediately else it could break.  Let it rest for 5-10 minutes.
6. You can decorate the cake as per your wish.
7.  Keep checking the cake after 20 minutes of baking.  Mine took exact 35 minutes to bake.  However, every oven takes different time for the same job so keep an eye.