Chocolate Cake (Eggless) Recipe (with Step by Step Photos)

Cakes are generally made with Egg to give it a soft and moist texture. However, for strict vegetarians, vegans and allergic person, this is a problem and can not enjoy the cake. This Eggless Chocolate Cake Recipe makes soft and spongy cake without using eggs, butter and condensed milk and provides directions with step by step photos. Additionally, this recipe also uses brewed coffee to give it a deep choco-coffee flavor and explains how to make chocolate ganache and use it as a cake frosting to make it even more tempting.

Chocolate Cake Recipe without Eggs and Butter

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Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Cooking Time: 35 minutes

Serves: 4 servings

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Chocolate Cake (Eggless) Recipe In Hindi (हिन्दी में पढ़े)

Chocolate Cake (Eggless) Recipe In Gujarati (ગુજરાતી માં વાંચો)

Ingredients for Cake:

3/4 cup Maida/All Purpose Flour

1/2 cup granulated Sugar (or 1/3 cup)

2 tablespoons Cocoa Powder (unsweetened)

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

A pinch of Salt

1/2 cup Brewed Coffee (mix 1/2 cup warm water with 3/4 teaspoon Instant Coffee Powder or Espresso Powder)

3 tablespoons Sunflower Oil or Light Olive Oil

1½ teaspoons Lemon Juice or Vinegar

1/4 teaspoon Vanilla Extract or 3-4 drops of Vanilla Essence

Ingredients for Frosting

2 oz (55 gram) Chocolate Chips (or chocolate)

1 tablespoon Butter

2½ tablespoons Full Fat Milk

2 tablespoons sliced Almonds, optional (for garnishing)

Note:To make chocolate cake for 8 servings, double the quantity of all ingredients, use 8-inch square pan or 9-inch round pans and bake the cake for 35-40 minutes instead of 30 minutes.

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 F (180 C). Make brewed coffee; mix 3/4 teaspoon instant coffee powder with 1/2 cup warm water. Add brewed coffee, oil, lemon juice (or vinegar) and vanilla extract in a bowl and mix well.
Sift all purpose flour (maida), cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in another bowl. Add sugar. If sugar has large granules, grind it in a grinder until powder.
Mix well.
Pour wet ingredients mixture into flour mixture.

Mix using a wire whisk or a spatula. Don’t over mix.
Mixture should be thin and lumpy. It should not be very thick.
Grease inside surface of baking pan (6.5 inches square pan) with oil or butter. Pour batter in it.
Place baking pan in pre-heated oven and bake for 30 minutes. Remove pan from the oven. Check whether the cake is cooked or not by inserting a bamboo skewer (toothpick) in the center and pulling it back. If it comes out clean, cake is cooked. If it does not, then cook it for 5 more minutes.
Let chocolate cake cool-down to room temperature. Run the knife on sides of the cake. Place cooling rack or a plate over the pan.
Flip the pan and rack together to easily remove the cake. If cake doesn’t come out easily, tap the pan gently.
Now, it’s the time for frosting. Take chocolate chips or (chopped chocolate) in a bowl.
Heat butter and milk in a pan over medium flame.
Bring it to boil and cook for a minute.
Turn off the flame. Pour the mixture over chocolate and let it stand for 2 minutes. Since the mixture is hot, chocolate will melt.
Mix it using a wire whisk until it turns smooth and shiny. Mixture will look dull in the beginning but it will turn shiny as shown in the photo after thorough mixing. Ganache frosting is now ready.
Spread aluminum foil and place cooling rack over it and then place cake over it. Foil will catch the excess ganache drips while frosting in next step. If you do not have a foil, use a plate to prevent the mess.
Pour ganache over the cake and spread it evenly with a knife or a flat spatula.
Sprinkle some sliced almonds over it if desired. Let it rest for 1-2 hours. Eggless Chocolate cake is ready. Slice it and serve.

Tips and Variations:

Make sure that cooking oil being used doesn’t have strong smell. We recommend to use Sunflower or light olive oil.
To make chocolate cake for 8 servings, double the quantity of ingredients, use 8-inch square pan or 9-inch round pans and bake the cake for 35-40 minutes instead of 30 minutes.
Garnish the cake with powdered sugar if you don’t want to make Chocolate ganache frosting.
Don’t reduce the quantity of lemon juice.
Do not replace baking soda with baking powder.

Taste: Sweet and chocolaty with soft and moist texture.

Serving Ideas: Serve it as a dessert after dinner or make it for the kid’s birthday party. Enjoy it with vanilla ice-cream or on its own.

Author: Foram

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33 Comments

Jan 20, 2022 by riya

Can I cook this recipe in a 9inch pan? Alternatively, if I double the ingredients and make it in a 9 inch pan, will I need two pans for the batter?
I am planning to make the eggless vanilla cake and the eggless chocolate cake and then layer them as a two tier cake for my friend's birthday but I have only two 9 inch pans for baking. Could you advice?

Jul 29, 2021 by Leanne

Hi

When you refer to baking soda, is bicarbonate of soda the same thing?
Am I correct about baking power is not the same? I have baking powder and bicarbonate soda which one do I need to use for this recipe?

Many thanks

Response: You need to use baking soda( bicarbonate of soda) in this recipe.

Jan 17, 2021 by Lalitha

Hey! Amazing recipe! Can you please tell me what are the measurements if I want to bake the cake in a 9" round cake tin?

Nov 28, 2020 by Tanvi

HI, I tried this vanilla cake recipe in my morphy richard 30 ltr microwave oven. I don't know what went wrong but cake is not baked in the centre. I bake at 180c for 40 mins.

plz help

Response: Hello Tanvi, the different oven has different sizes and settings and that's why sometimes they take a little bit more or less time for the baking. Make sure the oven is preheated and you can also try the oven thermometer to check the oven temperature.

Nov 15, 2020 by Anjali

The recipe is perfect for an eggless cake.
One thing which I wanted to ask you is about the frosting. How can we make the frosting with coco powder, sugar, milk, butter (that is without using chocolate or chocochips)?

Oct 25, 2020 by Shweta Mishra

I tried it twice and it comes out so perfect and yumm.

Oct 16, 2020 by Joy

Please how can it bake this cake in a microwave oven?

Response: Hi Joy, I have never tried baking this cake in the microwave so I am not able to answer.

Jul 10, 2020 by Yusraa

Can u please upload the recipe of death by chocolate cake.
Thank you so much

Response: HI Yusraa, I have added the requested recipe in my list.

Jun 01, 2020 by Amrutha

Hello,
I would like to try this recipe, is it possible to provide the measurements in grams please? The cup measurement might differ.
Thank you.

Response: Hi Amrutha, I will definitely try to update the recipe with measurements in grams very soon.

May 08, 2020 by Ashima

I tried vanilla eggless cake in microwave. Its taste superb. But my cake ( after 20 min) doesn’t turn brown from outside and I again cook this 7 min but brown with hard shell surrounded by it...plz tell me what did wrong in this?

Response: Hello Ashmia, bake the cake for little less time and keep an eye on cake after 20 minutes of baking.

Apr 20, 2020 by Trisha

Hi, how much vinegar to use?

Response: Hi Trisha, use 1½ teaspoons vinegar.

Apr 16, 2020 by Yusraa

Can u please tell me what is full fat milk? Also can I add normal milk?

Response: Hi Yusraa, full fat milk means whole milk (milk with fat). Yes, you can use normal milk to make the frosting.

Dec 18, 2019 by Ujjval

Ur vanilla sponge cake turned out super perfect.. I have made it so many times.. Thank u so much.. I wanted to know if we can bake chocolate cake with same recipe.. With curd.. If no.. Pls explain why.. And can u pls tell me what do I replace the brewed coffee mix if I don't want coffee flavour.

Response: Hello Ujjval, I have never tried making the chocolate cake using curd so I am not able to give yo the answer.
For No Coffee Flavour - Add the same amount of plain water instead brewed coffee.

Dec 16, 2018 by veda vispute

What can i replace baking soda with? I tried no baking soda and thrice the baking powder it's not working.

Response: You can not replace baking soda with any other ingredient in this recipe.

Dec 01, 2018 by Soni Shrawani

Thank you so much for your wonderful receipes. I feel an ease to cook any dishes depending on your foodviva website. Step by step procedure with images make me comfortable to understand. I am always be able to cook tasty food whenever I want.

Oct 29, 2018 by sapna

Great. Thanks for your very authentic recipe for egg less vanilla cake. It turned out perfect. It ended my search for eggless cakes. Thank you

Jun 23, 2018 by Manisha

Can I please have recipe of eggless cupcakes. Thanks.
Can you please send me your new recipes by email?
Thank a lot.
Manisha.

Response: Sure Manisha, we will try to upload the recipes of eggless cupcakes very soon. You can make the eggless chocolate cupcakes using the same above given recipe (the process is same, just bake it for 18-20 minutes).
For new recipes, please subscribe to our email feed so when we upload the new recipe, you will get the notification via mail.

Mar 08, 2018 by Shabnam Gupta

An appreciable recipe that helped me to make an astoundingly delicious cake.

Jan 11, 2018 by Jagruti yewale

Mam plz post eggless cupcakes n cake cream recipe

Response: We will try to post it soon.

Jan 10, 2018 by Vijaya

Thanks for the recipe.I tried the cake today and it came little more fluffy.. My son is allergic to eggs so I am searching for eggless cake from long time.thanks a lot it really made my day.

Response: Thank you Vijaya for the feedback. Comments like these helps us keep going.

Dec 25, 2017 by Neelam rathore

If the mixture becomes too thin then what we do?

Response: Hello Neelam, the mixture should be thin and lumpy (read in step-6) and not thick. If it turns too thin, add 1-2 tablespoons sifted all purpose flour(maida).

Nov 27, 2017 by Trupti

I tried this cake on ma daughter birthday... Its perfect n yummy.. Thank u..

Jul 25, 2017 by Deepti

What is the measurement of a cup according to this receipe

Response: Hello Deepti, 1 cup = 250ml is used in all the recipes to measure the ingredients on this site.

May 31, 2017 by ruchi

Are cooking soda and baking soda same? Can I use cooking soda in cake?

Response: Yes, cooking soda and baking soda are same.

Apr 20, 2017 by Pooja Shree R

Hi,
In case if the mixture looks thick what can be added to make it thin?
Thank you.

Response: Hello Pooja, you can add the mixture of oil and water (half oil and half water) to make it thin.

Mar 20, 2017 by Payal

Hi,Can this recipe be used to make vanilla flavoured cake instead of chocolate? Will it be tasty? Will it be spongy? And if yes than what will be the procedure to cook vanilla flavoured cake using this recipe?

Response: Hello Payal, follow the given recipe link to make spongy eggless vanilla cake.

Jan 03, 2017 by Deepanjali

Whenever I try to make my cake in oven it just get burn in 30min. I want to know why this happens.

Response: Hello Deepanjali, follow the given instructions to prevent the cake from burning.
1. Place the cake tin on middle rack in the oven.
2. Bake the cake at little bit low temperature (10-20 C lower) than mentioned temperature in the recipe.
3. If it starts burning from the top but uncooked from inside, cover it with aluminum foil from top and cook further.

Dec 31, 2016 by Aaaradhya

Hello, I tried the recipe. It's nice but I didn't get the sponginess In the cake. Plz let me know where I go wrong or what ingrident increase the sponginess?

Response: Hello Aaaradhya, follow the given tips to make the cake spongy.
1. Make sure that baking soda is not expired.
2. Don't skip or reduce the amount of vinegar/lemon juice.
3. After mixing wet and dry ingredients, immediately place the batter in oven for baking.
4. Baking soda reacts with the vinegar/lemon juice that makes the cake spongy.

Oct 12, 2016 by Sunidhi

Can I use dairy milk chocolate instead of choco chip and can I bake the cake in a microwave bowl?

Response: Yes, you can use the dairy milk instead of choco chips. You can bake the cake in any oven safe bowl (any metal bowl or any oven safe glass bowl). You need to check the bowl whether it is oven safe or not before using.

Oct 07, 2016 by Smita

Can I replace maida with wheat flour. Will it give same taste?

Response: Hello Smita, if you replace the maida with wheat flour, the cake will turn little dense.

Sep 21, 2016 by Layla

Hello, can I substitute baking powder for baking soda? I can rarely find baking soda in my area. :(

Response: No Layla, you cannot substitute baking soda with baking powder. Baking soda is also known as soda (that we generally used in cooking to make pakoda, dhokla etc.), soda bai carbonate, saji na phool, mitha soda etc.

Sep 04, 2016 by Sara Roy

Ohh wow it's look yum, thanks for sharing this cake recipe.

Aug 26, 2016 by Rohini kohli

Hello
I want to bake cake in a 8-inch pan, what would be ingredients measurement ?

Response: Hello Rohini, double all the ingredients and bake it for 35-40 minutes instead of 30 minutes.

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