Gluten-Free Butter-less Chocolate Cake!!

I am feared among my friends and family circle for trying my hands on cooking and serving some of the outcomes ..But they seem to be patient and i seem to never give up!! Since I am born with a sweet denture most of my trials are desserts..

I hate to reference back a recipe once I have heard or read it (Now you know the reason!) and I do admit I have a bad memory.


I remember the first time I decided to learn the recipe from my friend's mom (She's make ultra-delicious cakes..we devoured quite a few of them, some times when offered..sometimes by flicking ;p), I argued with my mom on keeping water in the cooker instead of sand!(The cake was baked in a sand oven made in the pressure-cooker)My mom was really patient, for the ordeal took more than 5 hours and I ended up making a steam lump of the batter!!


After 4 years of that incident,I made my next attempt to bake a cake (This time in a microwave oven). Some of my girl friends were coming over for a dinner party and I thought decided to give them a treat!


What can I say..I prepared the cake batter are per my sister's instructions and proceeded. Only place I messed up was the cake tin (It was more like a non stick grill pan! haha)...


Anyways I cake rose and fell and after the expert supervision of two first-time bakers (Me and my hubby),we took the cake out.


As excited as a four year old, as I inserted the knife on to the cake surface and realised we had unknowingly made some chocolate biscotti!! It took an hour for him to cut the biscotti neatly and place them in the jar...Haha...We didn't have a cake but what came out was delicious.


At the end of the party, my friends asked for a take-away of the biscotti!! That marked the first success of my baking history :))


Its been 6 months since that day and I have been asked a number of times to reproduce the biscotti for them..Hmm..now thats tough :P


Last week I wanted bake a cake, but since husband just recovered from jaundice I didn't want to use the AP flour and butter..but how can you have a cake without Flour or Butter??


Pondering over the same question, I stumbled upon a chocolate cake recipe by James Martin's 'Desserts'


The cake was a miracle, moist dense and ultra-delicious. This recipe is a adapted from the above book:


(The original recipe yields two 20 cm cakes, I use a borosil bowl and baked 3/4 of the below mixture. Rest was used for my experimentation :) See pics in collage for the wafers I created from the leftover batter)

6 Eggs
50 gm Cocoa Powder
150 gm castor sugar
Butter for greasing

Separate the egg whites from the yellow and whisk the sugar with the yellows.Next sift the cocoa powder and add to the yolk-sugar mixture.


Beat the egg whites seperately untill firm and combine into the yolk mixture.


Pour the batter into a greased tin and bake at 180C for 10-15 min


Cool on the wire rack and devour the cake!!


(One can reduce the sugar to get more of bitter chocolate flavor..gives one a real kick.because of lack of butter, this cake should be consumed in 1-2 days)


I couldn't wait to post the experience, the photos will follow soon !