Eggless Chocolate Walnut Cake / Inside-out walnut brownie-cake | For his 6 months

After posting non stop on different sundal varieties for the nine days of Navratri, I was totally exhausted and sitting in front of the system, typing away words for a post did not seem me, I don't know why ~ maybe I wanted to hibernate. So for the past four days, I din't sit in front of the PC and enjoyed having my 'me-time' cooking for the family, shopping and spending time with the kid. Then I remembered that I was late in posting the monthly birthday cake that I bake for my kuttypa. Wanting to finish framing the post as soon as I could, I cradled the kid to sleep, laid him down for his afternoon nap and sat down to put up the post. I am still in hibernation mode and am not sure when I will wake up. But I know that I will not be gone for long, might be one week or could be even one day, am not sure.

Coming to the bake, I made this Eggless Chocolate Walnut cake for my chotu's 6th month birthday. And I am glad that I chose this, it was dark, fudgy, moist and deep-chocolate-y. We loved every bit of it and the huss declared it to be one of the best bake and named it the "Inside-out walnut brownie-cake" and I would very well agree to that. The walnuts got toasted beautifully and the crunchiness added an extra yum factor. Its really worth a second try or shall I say many more tries.

Recipe adapted from Easycooking ~*What U Need*~ All purpose Flour - 1 cup Cocoa powder - 1/2 cup(I used Cadbury's) Instant coffee powder - 1 tsp Thick curd(homemade) - 1 cup Sugar - 3/4 cup Baking powder - 1 1/4 tsp Baking soda - 1/2 tsp Oil - 1/2 cup Vanilla extract - 1 tsp Chopped Walnuts - 1/2 cup Regular sugar - 1 tbsp Chocolate chips - 2 tbsp

How I Made it:
Preheat oven to 200C. Grease a round cake tin. Sift together flour, cocoa powder and coffee powder. Set aside.

In a mixing bowl, beat together sugar and yogurt till creamy. Mix in baking powder, baking soda and vanilla extract and beat well. Allow to rest tll you see bubbles appearing on the top.

Beat in the oil. Now add the sifted flour and beat till you get a smooth batter. Pour batter into cake tin.

Smooth the top and sprinkle the top with chopped walnuts, chocolate chips and sugar. Bake at 200C for 10 minutes and 170C for 25-30 mins or skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool the cake in the tin for 5 minutes and then turn onto a wire rack for further cooling. Slice after it cools completely.

Serve as it is or warm with a dollop of ice-cream and a generous helping of chocolate sauce or with a a quenelle of whipped cream or serve chilled!!!

** My Notes:
** First and foremost, do not get tempted to lick the whole batter. The batter is way too delicious that you might want to lick the bowl clean ;)
** Cool the cake completely before cutting.
** The cake is delicious on its own but I served it warm with a dollop of ice-cream and a generous helping of chocolate sauce and that was top-notch.

So thats it Folks...
With Love,

Signs off!!!