EGGLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE

INGREDIENTS

1 cup maida (flour)
½ teaspoon soda bicarbonate
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ tin condensed milk
100 gms butter (soft, very important)
1 ½ tablespoons cocoa powder
1 tablespoons chocolate powder
2 tablespoons powdered sugar (very important)
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 cup of water ( ½ cup of water if using an oven)

METHOD
Sieve maida, baking powder, soda bi-carbonate, chocolate and cocoa powders on a newspaper. Put all the ingredients into a large, steel bowl. Mix well together. Use an electric hand mixer for best and fast results.
Grease and dust with maida, very well, any square or round glass dish. Pour mixture (which should be thinner than a normal cake batter) into the glass dish. Level the batter by just gently tapping the dish on a table.
Set your microwave on high for 6 minutes.
Cake is ready when it leaves the sides of the dish and is springy to touch. Also put a knife into the cake and if it comes out clean it is ready.
Take out the cake immediately. Give the cake some standing time. It is best if you leave the cake in the dish and you can decorate the cake while it is hot with a chocolate fudge sauce.
Plain Cake
Just omit the chocolate and cocoa powder and 1 ½ cups of flour.
For an orange flavor add orange juice or mirinda instead of water, and some finely grated orange peel.
For a pista flavor just finely grind 35 gms of pista and add to the plain cake batter. Decorate with whipped cream and finely sliced roasted pista.
For brownies, make the butter 50 g , ½ teaspoon of baking powder and ¼ teaspoon of soda, add a handful of walnuts . Put the batter in a square or rectangle tin and when done cut the cake into squares and dust with icing sugar. Decorate the walnuts.
For an almond flavor just add finely powdered almonds (100 gms) in a plain cake batter. Moisten the cake with equal amount of sugar and honey and a little water, heat and mix well. Pour over the cake and decorate with machine sliced almonds.
For a banana cake add 2 smashed bananas in a plain batter or a chocolate cake.
For a mango cake, add the pulp of 2 mangoes. Reduce the water in both cases as needed.