Moist Chocolate Cake without Egg and Butter

Ingredients:

Dry Ingredients:

• All purpose flour - 1 and 1/2 cups (200 gms)
• Cocoa powder - 3 tbsp
• Baking soda - 1 tsp
• Baking powder - 1/8 tsp (optional)
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Granulated Sugar - 3/4 cup (165 gms) [Increase it to 1 cup if you dont use choco chips]
• Chocolate Chips - 2 tbsp

Wet Ingredients

• Water - 1 cup (250 ml)
• Vanilla essence - 1/2 tbsp
• Lemon juice / White Vinegar - 1 tbsp (I used lemon juice)
• Oil - 1/4 cup (60 ml)

Steps:

1. Take water in a mixing bowl, add vanilla essence, sugar, lemon juice and oil. Mix well till sugar completely dissolves . Keep aside.Now take flour, baking soda, baking powder and coco powder and sift together twice atleast to make sure the flour, soda and baking powder and coco powder is evenly spread out.Then slowly add the the sifted flour mixture to the wet ingredients mixture may be in 2 parts.
2. Gently mix in one direction, break the lumps forming...gently mix it.The batter is runny like you see in the pic.Fold in choco chips and give a quick stir. Preheat oven to 180 deg C for 10mins.Grease the pan with butter, sprinkle maida tap it so that it spreads on all sides.
3. Pour the batter into the cake pan. Bake it at 180 deg C for 35-40mins check with a fork if a fork inserted comes out clean