The 3 eggs we had in the fridge were used up for breakfast with toast. What I did have in abundance is yogurt. I am nothing if not a good wife to a Tamil Brahmin, making sure his beloved thayir sadam is always just 5 mins away.
The consistency is a bit spongy and denser than cakes with eggs but end result was totally delicious.
Eggless Chocolate Yogurt Cake
Makes about 12 pieces
What I Used:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar (add 1/4 cup more if not using frosting)
1/2 cup plain yogurt / curd
1/4 cup butter
2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp baking powder
A pinch of salt if using unsalted butter
How I Made It:
1. Pre-heat oven to 350F / 180 C. Grease a medium cake pan and set aside.
2. Sift together flour, salt (if using), cocoa powder and baking powder or just mix well in a bowl until combined well. Mix sugar and butter at room temperature. Beat well until frothy (2-3 mins on an electric mixer, 7-8 mins by hand using a whisk).
3. Once frothy, add yogurt and vanilla. Mix well.
4. Fold in the flour mixture until just combined. The batter will be a bit thick, its supposed to be that way, don’t worry.
5. Transfer batter to the greased tray and bake for 45 mins or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Cool completely and frost if required.
Easy Chocolate Frosting Recipe
Once I made the cake and tried the first slice, I realised its not sweet enough. I whipped up this frosting very quickly to make it a bit sweeter and it worked well.
Here’s how:
Take a large piece of semi sweet chocolate – about 4 oz – (or use 1/4 cup chocolate chips) and add 1 tbsp butter to it. Melt in the microwave in 30 second intervals until completely melted. Add 1 tbsp icing sugar to this and mix well. If the mixture is too thick, add milk by the teaspoon. I didn’t need to.
PS: If you don’t have a microwave, melt the chocolate and butter in a pan kept over another pan with boiling water. Mix well until chocolate and butter melt completely.
Beautiful cakes!!! I am already drooling over the pics.
How can I make this without chocolate? I mean plain vanilla cake. My husband hates chocolate. The other vanilla sponge cake on your site has lot of oil. I would like to try this with butter than oil. Let me know!
Thanks,
Jyo
if this is the recipe you prefer to follow but minus chocolate, just replace the cocoa powder with same amount of flour. i haven't tried it though so can't guarantee the results.
hai…
i have a couple of doubt regarding the frosting.
a)when u say a large piece of semisweet chocolate can u specify in gms? i'm planning to use dark chocolate that is available as bars in the market. each bar typically weighs a little more than 100gm.
b) do i need to increase the sugar content(since its dark chocolate)??
wish U and your family a very happy Navaratri…also planning to try some of your navaratri sundal recipes for nevidyam.
regards,
valli…
thank you valli! hope you try the navratri recipes.
so for the chocolate, if my memory serves me right, i used 2 squares of 2 oz each. you can add some sugar if the chocolate is dark.
hi,
thanx so much…
planning to do my first cream cake.. keeping my fingers crossed!!!. i'm just two months old in baking.hence the excitment.
btw i've also replied to your earlier response for my "cup to gm conversion" query.
valli.
I wanted to make a yogurt chocolate cake and this one is pretty good! I baked in a mini-muffin tin and topped with a few chocolate chips. The baking time was ten minutes and it came out perfect!
Hey, To be honest I started on this cake with some misgivings. My eggless cakes have often turned out slightly hard. But this one turned out nice and slightly spongy. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
The quantities you mentioned is adequate for a cake that can be eaten by 4 folks. I realised after baking that I need to double all the quantities, if I wanted to spread some chocolatey cheer around.
i tried a moist eggless chocolate cake recently (think it's from a food blog, my friend shared it to me). i tried this recipe as well as the moist chocolate cake and liked that one better. i think adding vinegar makes it softer. i used lemon juice once and that also worked fine. here's the receipe-hope you try.
1.5 cups flour
3/4-1 cup sugar
2-3 tbspoon cocoa powder
1/4 cup oil
1 cup water or milk
1 teaspoon soda
few drops vanilla and pinch salt
1 tbspoon vinegar or lemon juice (to replace eggs)
choc chips or nuts to cover batter on top
mix wet and dry ingredients separately. then mix together. bake for 30 mins with nuts or choc chips on top.
sometimes i feel like it's not very sweet so i add more sugar or use icing. hope you like this.
thank you for all the easy eggless baking recipes in the site.
thanks a lot for the moist chocolate cake recipe! seems quite easy, i will try it very soon 🙂
Hi, there's no cooking oil in this recipe, only butter.
Hi,
The cake looks awesome. I want to try this out but wanted to know if I can substitute cooking oil for butter?
-Vinu
Hi. Thanks for the lovely recipe! Just bake one this afternoon but my cake didn't rise as well as yours and it was small too. But it taste very yummy though. Just not sure where went wrong!
yummyy……! loving it…..:)
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yummy creamy chocalate. a fav of everyone.
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Had an intense craving for chocolate tried out this recipe of ur's since all ingridients were readily available…it turned out Great :). thanks. ~ Deepika
Hi I have a question — does the cake turn out spongy like other cakes in the end? or does it remain dense like a browny.
Thank you so much for trying the eggless chocolate cake and pointing out your own egg substitute Shreya 🙂
Hi Naga, thanks for this recipe! I tried it out (actually Amma did), and as per your suggestion, Amma used cream with vinegar (same amount as yogurt – mixed with 2tbsp of vinegar and set aside until time to mix in batter). It turned out really well, and my daughter (and her friend) loved it!:-) ~ Shreya
Hope it came out well Angel. Do send me feedback with pics, if any 🙂
Hi, this is so inspiring I'm making it right now! The batter is creamy, tangy and slightly sweet. I don't have baking powder, so we'll see how it turns out!
Hey there, getting the right oven temperature can be tough so hang in there. I hope it works out better the next time. This chocolate cake is worth the effort, let me tell you 🙂
I made it once in my oven but it got burnt on the outside, bit it was great on the inside. I'm really not sure what's wrong with my oven settings, as I used fan-forced lower heat only at 150 celcius but it still got burnt. I am now making it in my microwave convection oven, and I hope it turns out fab.
I have heard of yogurt cakes but never had or made one before… this one I have to try…
Nice recipe Nags and thanks for Nita Mehta's mention. I will checkout her books.
Wow looks so tempting!!!
It is amazing. I have never tried this chocolate cake before. Thank you for sharing.
I have made brownies with tahini (yummy) but I have never tried a chocolate cake with yogurt! This is next on my list, especially since I eat yogurt daily and always cook with it! Thanks for an awesome recipe
Luscious looking cake 🙂
Nags,
Its wonderful that you could find a recipe to fit your ingredients. Mine always turn out terrible. I thought the cake looked very moist. I like your new layout.
Great recipe!!! Thanks a lot.
this looks absolutely yummy. been a while since I ate chocolate cake
eggless ..oh wow! my fav choc cake is also with yogurt and now i use greek yogurt to get an extra creamy taste.
Wow,love this,love the simple ingredients! And the new look of ur site is really a nice change:)
nice "eggless" recipe..looks delicious with the frosting..
Where should I go lick in the new layout?
I had a freaking salad for dinner at 5:45. My stomach's already growling now. I should not be looking at this. But Iam and I'm drooling. I blame you. LOL!
that looks so good! nothing like a chocolatey post 🙂
It looks nice and moist Nags. I am sure the yogurt did that to the cake.
I'm drooling over the pics, looks soooooooooooooooooooo mouth watering.
Hi Nags, Have left you couple of comments on friday not sure why none has appeared. BTW, Love anything named after Chocolate, Love this chocolates cakes and the icing.
Yumm yumm..Kandittu kothiyavunnuuuuu..oru piece ingottu koodi thannekku…
am drooling at the picture with the icing on it. lovely cake looks so moist and yum!
I do this combination too but never as eggless, thanks for sharing…
I also like Chocolate cake with yogurt in it…by adding yogurt you will always get a very soft cakes :)…and I am a big fan of Nita Mehta!!
Chocolate cake looks delicious and very chocolatey.
Last pic makes me drool here 🙂 Choc cake with yogurt is on my todo list for long….this post tempts me!!