Chocolate Cake ...
Moist and wet and dreamily yummy!
And egg less!
If you have been keeping track of my bio...you will know that I am now gainfully-as in an economically viable-y employed in a high school and that I teach history to senior school boys and girls.
Boys and girls who haven't the faintest interest in their own history...let alone the french revolution.
But then...some one has to do this dirty job...
Make the French Revolution palatable!
With chocolate cake... Well what ever history says about Marie Antoinette and her air head comments ...about letting them eat cake...it is so not true. But that caught their attention...30 ninth graders... And me... I went all out telling the stories of what all I have ever read and seen on celluloid... And what should have taken only 15 classes took more than 22! But the cake was not for them...
They got pearls of my wisdom-sic! This was in honor of general happiness... Missing friends and trying to fit into the new staff room..the staff room that has many pure no egg eaters. So a small offering...and a display of my prowess...that water makes for a fantastic cake too... yes!
for the
One Bowl Egg less Chocolate Cake And Water and some French History...
you need
3 cups plain flour 2 cups sugar 2 cups water 1/2 cup cocoa powder 2 tsp baking powder 1 1/2 tsp soda bi carb 1/2 tsp salt 2/3 cup vegetable oil or melted butter 2 tsp vanilla essence 1 tbsp vinegar
For the frosting... One recipe chocolate fudge sauce 150 gms semi sweet chocolate 50 gms butter sprinkles
Simple... Grease and flour a 10 inch square cake tin... Pre heat your oven to 175C/350F. Sift the dry stuff twice...
And keep your wire whisk ready.
Heat the water and add the sugar to dissolve...You need tepid...warm to the touch- water.
Once the sugar dissolves ,Add in the oil, vanilla and the vinegar.
Pour the wet into the dry and whisk batter...
And pour into the tin...pop into the oven for 35 minutes,check only when the cake comes away from the sides...If you want to poke with a metal skewer...clean out and its done.
This is for the frosting...I could not possibly take a naked cake to school,now could I?
This was left over chocolate...Amul Zoo chocolate...
Pretty shapes...
See the cake...clean and so shiny!Run a knife around it and invert after half an hour...
Melted chocolate in the microwave...
One recipe of my famously easy Chocolate fudge sauce...find the recipe here...
Blend in while still warm...to get this....
Into which I added the butter...
And cooled the sauce...Next morning...cake sliced in half...
Sauce slathered on...
Covered...and drool factor on...Yum! Yum!
Pretty Sprinkles to make you happy...
Tupperware'd for school...
And some leftovers stashed for pics and midnight chocolate cravings..
Cravings which make you lick spoons with a dreamy look in your eyes and a satisfied smirk on your face...
Things that make you go mmmm......Don't mind Marie Antoinette and her shenanigans...
So what are you baking today???
