Egg-less yogurt chocolate cake

Anecdote


Mamta Mehra and I met in grade six. We were like chalk and cheese, so much so that the Hindi Sir had told her mom that she will do better in her grades if she had appropriate company. Both mother and daughter Mehra had the sense to not pay any heed to this and we carried on exchanging clothes, shoes, music, books and letters.

Mamta and I were quite the cooks at a very early age. We tried recipes. We exchanged recipes. We discussed recipes. She learnt this chocolate cake recipe from an aunt in Kanpur and has made it 45000 times ever since. I have made it 45000-1 times till Thursday, last week.

Last Sunday, I actually tried out a quick fun snack, a recipe not acquired from my friend, but from her teenage daughter Simran. Time flies, doesn’t it?

Stuff that you must have:

Flour
Yogurt
Sugar
Cocoa powder
Drinking chocolate powder
Cooking soda
Cooking oil
Water

What to do:

In a mixing bowl, take half cup of water, cooking oil and yoghurt each and mix well with a spatula. Add three-fourth cup of sugar and mix in the same till it dissolves into the liquid. In a separate container, take one and a half cups of flour. Add four teaspoons of cocoa powder and eight teaspoons of drinking chocolate powder. Now add half a tea spoon of cooking soda to the dry mixture. Fold in the dry mixture to the wet mix. Again with the spatula, mix the batter till smooth. Pour in the mix into a well greased baking dish.

Preheat oven at 100 degrees for ten minutes. Set the baking dish and keep the temperature to 150 degrees. Bake for fifteen minutes. Introduce a needle and see if it comes out of the cake with nothing stuck to it. If so, viola, you cake is ready.

How to serve:

It is good served warm or cold. It is also good served with ice cream or whipped cream.

Trivia:

Ever wondered why they are called cup cakes. It is because to make cup cakes, you take a cup of flour, a cup of sugar, a cup of butter.....

The word cake is traced by the Oxford English Dictionary back to the 13th century. It is a derivation of 'kaka', an Old Norse word.

Also, ever wondered why cakes are around…Food historians offer several theories. Each depends upon period, culture and cuisine. Generally, the round cakes we know today descended from ancient bread. Ancient breads and cakes were made by hand. They were typically fashioned into round balls and baked on hearthstones or in low, shallow pans.