Eggless Ragi, Whole wheat, Chocolate Cake
Author: Lata Lala
Recipe type: Cakes
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 10
- Whole Wheat Flour- 1 cup
- Finger millet/ragi flour-1/2 cup
- Jaggery/brown sugar -1 cup or more or less
- Baking Soda-3/4 tsp
- Baking powder- ½ tsp
- Cocoa powder -2 tbsp
- Thick yogurt-3/4 cup
- Salt a pinch
- Milk -1/4 cup +2 tbsp
- Any flavorless oil -1/4 cup
- Vanilla essence- 1 tsp
- Honey 2 tsp
- Walnuts toasted and chopped- ½ cup
- For Chocolate Sauce :
- Milk-2 cups
- Sugar-4-5 tbsp
- Cocoa powder-4 tbsp
- Butter- 1 tbsp
- Vanilla essence- ½ tsp
- For the Chocolate Curls
- Dark chocolate slab
- Preheat the oven at 180 degree for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Grease your baking tin with some butter or Oil. Dust some whole wheat flour all over the pan. Remove the excess flour.
- Mix ragi flour, wheat flour,baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder and salt. Sieve all these 3 to 4 times. Next whisk them nicely and generate air.
- Keep the dry ingredients and all wet ingredients separate and ready to mix.
- Dry ingredients are ragi flour+whole wheat flour+ cocoa powder+ bakingsoda+Baking Powder+salt
- Wet ingredients - Yogurt+honey, jaggery, milk and vanilla essence.
- Mix oil,vanilla essence, and milk to the yogurt & honey mixture.
- Now mix all wet ingredient and dry ingredients together until combined. Do not overmix the cake batter.
- If mixing chopped walnuts, coat it with a little flour and then mix in the batter.
- Otherwise walnuts would sink in the batter while Baking.
- Pour the batter in a greased & dusted baking tin and tap the pan on the kitchen counter, so that the mixture settles evenly in the tin.
- Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees for around 35 to 40 minutes or check with toothpick inserted in cake.
- After 40 minutes, let the cake remain in the oven for few minutes.
- Then remove the cake tin from the oven and transfer the cake on a wire rack to cool down properly.
- For making chocolate sauce:
- Mix together milk, cocoa powder and sugar. Make sure that no lumps remain. It should be smooth mix.
- Now cook the mixture on medium heat. Once it starts to boil, reduce the heat and keep stirring it.
- Once it starts thickening and reaches a sauce like consistency remove it from fire.
- Add butter and vanilla essence to cooked mixture. Stir well and cool it completely. Chocolate sauce is ready.
- Pour this chocolate sauce over the cake. Garnish with cake sprinklers of your choice.
- To make chocolate curls :
- Keep the bar of dark chocolate outside the refrigerator to come to room temperature.
- After half an hour, using a vegetable peeler, peel and make chocolate curls.
- Then refrigerate these chocolate curls until it is hard.
- Sprinkle over the cake. Cut into pieces and enjoy!!!
Recipe by at https://yummytalesoftummy.com/eggless-ragi-whole-wheat-chocolate-cake/
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