EGGLESS SPONGE CAKE

Before starting to write anything, let me make an honest confession. I am not good at baking! Even if baking since age 15, just decent you can say, that I may claim, I am zero at decoration part. Till date I am not ready to give that effort required to beautify / dress a cake! I only get mesmerised at others' works! 

Ask my parents, they would say I was born lazy. Ask my brother, he would say how bad I am at any sports. Ask my son, he would say how lame his mumma is, ask his father, he would say what level of cry baby I am. All of them would agree I have developed a passion for cooking, I am foodie since birth I think! The mother would ask in disbelief when did I start taking interest in cooking, I could not even boil dal pre 1997! 

I feel desserts are an integral part of meals. A cake is both snack & dessert to me, just add a scoop of ice-cream, it becomes dessert! I started to love desserts after being diagnosed with diabetes. As they say, whatever is forbidden, attracts most. I am no exception, I do have attraction towards what I need not perhaps. I do not stop my heart going either, I cannot cease to live. I struggle to keep within boundary line, hence baking, cooking, reading, music becomes a necessity! Isn't a calculative mind a robot? It definitely is! No doubt we all are nothing but caged beings! If T is not a buddy, who is? But he ceased to be my best friend, once you tie up you do not remain anymore!

I thought of sharing a vegetarian recipe today, my vegetarian friends may pounce on me. Here goes an eggless sponge cake. 

This is 2025, I am updating this blogpost with new pictures. I roughly went through an eggless cake recipe of BAKE WITH SHIVESH, did not follow his recipe ditto, by now I have learnt basics of plain cakes. But my first attempt went bit haywire, I did not like the top layer.

Compare two, you would know about issue with former! It is tasting really good but!

INGREDIENTS

Refined flour : 1 coffee mug
Sugar : 5-6 tbsp
Baking Powder : 1tsp
Baking Soda : 1/2 tsp
Vanilla Essence : 1tsp
Milk : 1/4 tea cup
Plain Yogurt : 1/2 coffee mug

Oil : 1/2 coffee mug + few drops

PROCEDURE :

Sieve together flour, baking powder, baking soda. Add oil, sugar, yogurt in blender. Blend until smooth & light. Pour in milk, vanilla essence. Blend well again. 

Thereafter, add in flour mix in blender little at a time. Blend well each time. Finally, mixture should be creamy and fluffy.

Grease a round cake tin with oil. This helps cake to come out smoothly without breaking. Pour in the cake mix. 

Mine is microwave oven, set it at convection mode. Place the low height wired stand inside, Preheat the oven at 160*C [my oven's set tempareture].

Place cake tin with batter atop the stand. Bake for 30-35 minutes at 160*C! 

Insert a fork in middle of cake to check if it's done or not. If done fork would come out clean. 

After it's done let it cool. Turn cake tin upside down on plate, it would come out smoothly. 

The cake was spongy, perfect with evening cuppa! Bake your cake and enjoy the journey!