This is a basic eggless vanilla cake recipe without any butter or condensed milk in it. I bookmarked this cake long time back from
Divya’s Blog – the baking encyclopaedia for me. Today made it and came out really well. The frosting is such a simple one,perfect for the beginners like me! I dint made any changes, made it as such as I am always scared in experimenting in baking ventures. I myself bake once in a blue moon, so if it doesn’t comes out well, then I will never try again…
Ingredients
| All purpose flour/maida | 1 & 1/2 cups minus 3 tblsp |
| Corn flour | 3 tblsp |
| Sugar | 3/4 cup |
| Baking powder | 1 tsp |
| Baking soda | 1/2 tsp |
| Oil | 1/2 cup |
| Curd | 1 cup |
| Vanilla essence | 1 tsp |
Method
- Pre heat oven to 180 oC. Sieve maida with corn flour twice to ensure even mixing. Mix curd and sugar in a bowl well. Add the baking powder and baking soda and let it rest for 2 – 3 minutes.
- You can see the mixture now to be slightly frothy. Now mix oil and vanilla well to it. Add the flour one tablespoon at a time and mix well.
- After mixing all the flour, pour it in the baking pan,greased with oil and dusted with a tsp of flour.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes or until the toothpick inserted inside comes out clean. Mine took 40 minutes for getting done. let it be in the pan for 5 minutes and invert carefully in a wire rack for cooling.
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If you want you can enjoy this simple vanilla cake as such with tea /coffee. Otherwise if you want you can frost it with the chocolate frosting given below.
Ingredients
| Butter | 1/4 cup |
| Coco powder | 1/3 cup |
| Milk | 1/6 cup |
| Powdered sugar | 1 & 1/2 cup |
| Vanilla essence | 1/2 tsp |
Method
- Melt butter in a pan in low flame and add the coco powder, mix to well. Add the powdered sugar,milk and vannila and stir well to get a spreading consistency frosting.
- Trim the crusted top and apply the frosting all over with a cutlery knife. Decorate with silver/golden beads if desired. I used ready made sugar candied flowers.
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Let it set for some time before you dig in!! I hope I learn the techniques of applying the frosting by experience, still for the first time, this is not bad right
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Notes
- You can use 1 & 1/2 cup cake flour instead of maida and cornflour.
- Use icing sugar for frosting if you have. If you powder,make sure its powdered very fine.
- If you don’t like oil in this cake, you can try replacing with 1/2 cup melted butter.
- All the aroma gets incorporated well the next day :)
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76 Stars(comments):
Lovely cake Raji...wonderful attempt.
cake looks delicious! frosting is pretty good ... And it will get better as you try...
Very nicely done cake rajo..looks gr8,I wish u could pass me a slice
oooo wonderful.. i love it.. very well xplained clear pics..
yummy yummy dear...perfectly baked...
Good one...Cake looks moist and perfect.
Cake looks super spongy and incredible,lovely frosting..
wowww wonderful spongy cake!!
Looks very tempting esp the slice...Perfect sponge cake
perfect cake...looks very soft and yummy!beautiful presentation on cake and the flowers looks very cute!
Cake looks perfect and yummy :P Bookmarked!
Cake looks wonderful raji...
bookmarked it :)
bookmarked !!Looks perfect. well decorated.
cake looks soft and yummy.. For frosting i dont melt butter. Instead i beat the butter with sugar & milk alternately at room temp to get that fluffy texture.
this cake looks so good...I love chocolate in anything
That's a yummy cake raji.
Cake looks great Raji:-) I love this combo of vanilla cake and chocolate frosting!! yumm
Love that cute spongy cake and the frosting is irresistible.
wow...Wonderful recipe...Love this cake ...Nice clicks...
Thanks for sharing...
Hummm...this looks irresistible..wonderful presentation as always..
Cheers
Muskaan
I absolutely love this recipe.Have recently posted a chocolate version on my blog.As you said,it is perfect as a tea cake too,spice it up with cinnamon,cardamom or vanilla and you are good to go.You've done the frosting quite well,how I wish to lay my hands on those pretty sugar flowers:)
A stunner ~ beautiful work n presentation dear!
USMasala
Cake looks very moist... and yummy frosting indeed.
Cake looks so yum,..:) will try sometime luv the frosting too,,
Those sugar flowers look so cute raji. Like you said for a first time this is simply gorgeous. Wish I had it in me to try out frosting.
Beautiful one Raji..u hav done so well and did u get the message i sent u in FB ?
Wonderful cake with an expert touch
I had tried this too over the weekend for few friends & it came out perfect!! Next time Im gonna try it with your version of the frosting..Makes it even more elegant..:)
Prathima Rao
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wonderful cake,like the deco with gum paste flowers...yummy chocolate frosting...
i was looking for a perfect vanilla cake,wonderful idea of making chocolate frosting and nicely presented too
looks absolutely inviting,droolworthy and super tempting..
This cake looks yummilicious...
Love this! yummy!
That looks delicious.. Loved the decorations too.. You know what - i have been searching for that silver beads all around here and cant find it :(
Pass me that piece pls..My my it looks super delicious! Its come out so perfect! And loved those cute flowers too..
Lovely Cake and nice frosting.
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Wow. Am drooling here. Lovely cake. chocolate frosting is attracting me like anything.
Cheers,
Uma
The flowers looks so pretty on the delicious looking chocolate cake!!
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What a pretty cake! Those little flowers are so lovely.
why make cakes with eggs when u can make such lovely cake without it.. really appreciate ur talent dear..perfect job..hats off for u ..well explained and well captured too..
Hi Raji... lovely cake with rich chocolate frosting... i was waiting for you to frost a cake and me to try the same coz you are so perfect in your measurements... thanks a lot for the wonderful recipe...
O my..Simply drooling over ur chocolate frosting..SImply fab..Beautiful small frosting flowers.Cute
wow..too tempting
wow that looks sinfully delicious, Raji!!!
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Cheers, priya
awesome cake with chocolat frosting love it!
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Beautiful cake.. :)
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Looks yum, the base cake looks soft n moist ...nice pics
looks absolutely delicious..
Soft and yummy cake,looks awesome dear..
Awesome! Looks great!
Looking great!! Thanks for the frosting steps...Whenever I try to do frosting its whole mess-up..one quick question..Can we use any other powder for frosting instead of coco-powder, because my kid doesnt like coco taste...how we will get the plain white frosting...Please reply
Wow...cake looks spongy and yummy....cute and lovely cake...looks tempting.
perfectly done dear...jus love your blog for the way you explain the recipe..amazing job...
gonna try this one soon
The cake and the frosting both have come out very well!
Lite Bite
sounds absolutely soft n divine..:)
Tasty Appetite
Scrumptious vanilla cake raji. Happy to see your space again with an excellent cake to celebrate the fourth blog anniversary as both of ours falls on the same day. Congrats on that! Chocolate frosting looks beautiful on the cake.
lovely cake...can't believe u r doin it for first time!
Priya, I am not sure what could be the best substitute for choco powder. Will soon update u if I find any alternative. I am sorry for the late reply,just now saw!
what is curd? Is there a substitute for it?
You can replace curd with plain yogurt ..
how to bake this in cooker? I don't have oven. how many mins i should keep it to complete?
hai frnd,
thanx a ton for sharing such an easy cake recipe..i tried this cake as well as eggless chocolate cake..both came out superb..
i wanna share this with my frnd..is it ok with u..if i put up this recipe on my blog?
i faced a prob with frosting..as it dried up n started breaking aft 1 hr...don't knw wat went wrong?
could we use low fat curd for this recipe..and could u please specify the quantity for the low fat curd because its slightly more watery than full fat curd
Shruthi,
I dont know if we can follow this recipe to do in cooker. Sorry about that...
SMJ
You can use the same quantity, I hope there wont be much difference. So you can proceed..
hai frnd..
am still waiting for ur reply..pls
Radhika,
Yes you can use the recipe,but with proper link back to this recipe or the original source-Divya's blog...
Some times over mixing the frosting leads it becoming grainy. Hope this helps.
I somehow missed ur comment,sorry about that....
hai thnx my frnds..i'l giv ur link..as i found it on ur site..thnx again.
thnx a lot frnd..yes i knw..tht's y i sked u first b4 posting it..
ok i'l try d frosting once again..ya i mixed it too much tht day...thnx again..
best wishes.
Hi
For Eggless Vanilla Cake, for frosting you have mentioned to melt the butter - Is that it needs to be melted to the state of ghee or something in between before adding the coco powder. Can you clarify pls as your picture gives the appearance of ghee??
Do you think I can use tutty fruity to this recipe? In the other chocolate cake recipe, I saw a comment from you that the cake batter is probably thin that it might not hold the fruits.
I appreciate your quick feedback
Hi
Still awaiting ur reply....
can this cake be done without preheating in a normal grill microwave. if so wht time shud be set for it to bake.
Ah, I am not sure about it. You see me too beginner in baking. Sorry that I couldn't help u...
Hi,
Can i use eno fruit salt instead of baking powder? will it yield the same result?
Started follwing ur kitchen recipes for past two weeks.. Really whatever I tried, came well.. !! Thanks a lot..
A doubt reg. ingredients.
1 cup = ? grams?
Shweta, u can use, but I am not sure about the measurements. you should experiment to find out :)
EKC,
Thanks for you feedback :) My one cup holds 240 ml... different ingredients weigh different weight. But you can find a cup that holds 240 ml and use it for measuring dry ingredients as I do...
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