Pangs of Chocolate Cake Cravings.. ♥

Have you ever experienced the almost sudden feeling of longing to eat something although your not hungry.. and the intense desire to consume happens to be of that specific, one and only food ?

A-hah ! That's exactly what happened yesterday.. That very loud voice saying - won't it be nice to have some super delicious chocolate cake - at the back of my head, metaphorically speaking. hihi.. 

After browsing a few chocolate cake recipes, I finally found one to my liking - Moist Chocolate Cake ! 

Its a recipe I saved from dear blogger Love2Cook's blog. It looked very moist and tempting. (actually most of her cakes and cooking are.. 'winks') Really knoeee... You might wanna check it out yourself too.

Well this is how mine turned out... Not as neat as hers, but taste wise I was contented. =)

It looks sort of messy right.. Pardon me as I'm new to cake decorating. Most of the time when I bake a cake, we'll start to dig in as soon as it just gets cool enough.. 

For the cake I followed all the ingredients exactly except for the egg, as we were out of eggs at home. So I used the egg substitute I found in another blog sometime ago (I can't remember which one though) and the result was still up to standard.. at least to my standard lar..

The egg substitute I used :

2 tbsp flour

1/2 tbsp shortening (I used butter)

1/2 tsp baking powder (I used bicarbonate soda)

2 tsp water

As for the topping, I used chocolate cream cheese frosting !

Tried it for the first time..

Thank you Love2Cook for sharing such a wonderful recipe.. keep sharing.. n I shall keep trying.. ♥ 

Simple Eggless Double Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

I was in a very good mood this evening so I decided to bake some cupcakes..

I tried looking for the chocolate cupcake recipe I had tried before but it got misplaced I guess, I couldn't find it. So I decided to try a new recipe that I found a few days ago. It looked quite simple and is actually very simple. You don't even have to use a cake mixer to mix the batter, just use a whisk to stir slowly.

This recipe is from The Batter Baker. Thank you for sharing this simple recipe.
Click HERE for the original recipe.

Eggless Double Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

Wet Ingredients :
125 ml milk
50 ml oil
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1 tbs cocoa powder

Dry Ingredients :
110 gm plain flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
70 gm sugar
90 gm chocolate chips

Steps :

1. Warm the milk and dissolve the cocoa powder to release its flavour. ( You don't have to wait till its boiling though. ) 
2. Then stir in oil and vanilla essence.
3. Combine all the dry ingredients in a separate bowl and mix well.
4. Pour wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir till just combined. Do not overmix or the batter will become lumpy.
5. Scoop the batter into the cups 2/3rd full. Bake at 190 degree C for 15 minutes or till cupcakes are done.

The cupcakes turned out to be really soft and moist in the inside. Its really very simple to make and I was delighted with the results.

I think I put in a little less then 2/3rds of the cups.. so you can see the results.. Nevermine that as it still taste goood N yummmy.. Looks like I'll be making more of this in the future..memang laris dimakan.. haha  :)

p/s : Baking time may differ depending on your oven and also your cupcake size.
       Number of cupcakes may also vary. I got 20 little cupcakes.

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