Healthy Chocolate Cake | Eggless | Dairy-Free | Sugar-Free

 Since I’m always trying to make healthy recipes, how can I skip my favourite chocolate cake? This is a healthy chocolate cake without refined flour, refined sugar, refined oil, eggs, milk and butter. So do try this recipe and let me know how it turned out for you.

Ingredients

• 1 cup water
• ⅓ cup virgin coconut oil
• 1 tsp vanilla essence 
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 cup jaggery powder
• 1½ cups wheat flour 
• ½ tsp salt (I use rock salt)
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp baking powder 
• ¼ cup cocoa powder 
• Chopped cashews for topping (optional)

Preparation

1. Preheat the oven to 180° celsius.
2. Grease a baking pan with oil and line it with parchment paper.
3. In a large bowl, take water, virgin coconut oil, vanilla essence, lemon juice and jaggery powder. Now with a hand blender, beat till the jaggery powder has dissolved.
4. Add whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder. Gently mix with a spatula. Now beat with a hand blender till everything is mixed well.
5. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and level the top with the help of a spatula or with the back of a spoon.
6. Sprinkle some chopped cashews over the top of the cake. This step is optional.
7. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
8. Leave it in the pan for 10-15 minutes. Then remove from the pan and allow it to cool completely at room temperature.
9. Once cooled, slice and serve.
10. Enjoy!!!

Tips

• If you don’t have lemon juice then you can use vinegar instead.
• If you don’t have a hand blender, then you can mix everything by hand using a whisk.