Simple Delicious Eggless Chocolate cake

To start with new food blog, what's better than sweet. I thought what better than simple yet delicious cake. I learnt this from mother-in-law who is very good cook. Come to think about it, I think most of Oriya people are good cooks(at least the people I know). Saikat, my husband is really very good at cooking (better than me actually which I hate to admit).I think Oriya's live to eat unlike Chitpavan Brahmin's like my family.

So back to the recipe.We'll need following ingredients

2 Cup maida
1 Cup milk powder
1 cup sugar (use regular sugar)
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 1/4 cup milk(you might need to add more to thinner the batter if required).
1 tbl spoon baking powder 1/2 tbl spoon backing soda (don't use Eno, use baking soda)
3-4 spoonfuls of cocoa powder
Dry fruits
vanilla essence

Start with mixing milk and oil together. Soak sugar in this mix.
In another bowl sift together maida, milk powder,cocoa powder, baking powder and soda.
At this time you can start heating oven (180 degree C for around 10 min).
Now slowly start adding maida mixture to milk-oil mixture. Make sure you move spatula (or beater) in one direction only (either clockwise or anti-clockwise). If you feel batter is thick add little bit milk. Add vanilla essence and dry fruits. Save some dry fruits for topping.
In the cake tin add some ghee and heat it. Coat all sides of tin with ghee. Pour the cake batter in tin. If cake tin is around half filled then cake turns out better. Add dry fruit toppings.
Now place the tin on lower shelf with only lower heater on. Set timer to 25min.
Check after 20-22 min for clean knief test. If knief comes out clean, you can switch off oven. Don't take out cake tin. Let it cool with oven itself. This keeps cake fluffy.
If you dont like chocolate, you can remove cocoa powder from list to prepare basic cake. Sometimes I divide the batter in 2 portions and add cocoa powder to one portion only. Pour plain and chocolate batter together in tin to get marble like pattern. It looks good and tastes even better.Do try.