Marble cake (eggless)

My daughter S was having their fun day at school and she wanted me to bake a cake to share with her class mates .While I was deciding on what to bake ,soon I realised that I was running short of eggs and it was too early in the morning for the shops to open .Rather than that I was feeling lazy to step out of the house and ferry my self eggs .

Suddenly my eyes fell on the yogurt lying in the fridge and........  what else? I decided to bake an egg less cake. A plain vanilla cake would be boring for the kids ,and for  a complete chocolate cake i was not confident of the egg less version . I had tried vanilla cake and loved the texture and taste of it ,but was sceptical with chocolate ..Finally decided that I will go with a marble cake.It came out so perfect that no one could figure it out that it was an egg less cake 

Lets  start baking ........

  Other cakes are ;

1. Fruit n nut cake
2. Spicy spinach bread (egg less)
3. Orange cake
4. Banana bread
5. Designer Swiss roll

INGREDIENTS

• 3/4 cup all purpose flour(maida) (apf)
• 1/2cup yogurt
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup refined oil
• 1 tsp vanilla
•  1/2 tsp baking soda (b.s) 
• 1/2 tsp baking powder (b.p)
• 2 tbsp coco powder (mixed in 1tbsp milk)
• 3 tbsp milk (if needed)

METHOD

1. Grease the loaf or cake tin with butter , dust it  with flour and set aside .
2. Whisk together yogurt, b.s, b.p with spatula until the sugar dissolves and becomes creamy mixture.
3. Set this mixture aside to rest for 10 mints .
4. Now u can see the mixture has become frothy .
5. Add oil and give a gentle mix .
6. Sieve the flour 2 times from a height and add to the mixture in 3 batches.
7. Mix it gently to form  a smooth batter.
8. Divide the batter into 2 parts in 2 bowls .
9. Add vanilla to 1 bowl  and coco powder to the other one ,and mix it gently .
10. Preheat the oven at 200 c .
11. Take the cake tin and add the cake batters alternately .
12. First a layer of vanilla followed by chocolate and so on till the top layer of vanilla.
13. Take a tooth pick and gently swirl it around the batter to give the marble effect  .
14. Bake the cake at 200 c for 10 mints and at 175 c for 20 mints,or until the tooth pick inserted comes out clean .
15. Remove it from the oven and allow it to cool in the tin for 20 mints .
16. Remove the cake from the tin and and cool it on a wire rack completely before cutting.
17. Your marble cake is ready.    

NOTES

1. Step 2 and 3 are very important for the fluffy texture of the cake .
2. I have used a loaf tin so I had slices of the cake ,you can use a cake tin also .
3. After adding do not be vigorous at mixing as oil tends to emulsify on high speed and makes the cake hard.
4. Mixing in batches avoids lumps.
5. The temperature settings differ from oven to oven so keep an eye from 20 mints onwards.

yummily



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