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Eggless Chocolate Tart Cake … delicious holiday desserts

Eggless Chocolate Tart Cake … deeply delicious and very indulgent, and oh so pretty as well, we absolutely loved how the tart cake turned out. With the holiday season here, this is a great option for your dessert corner. It ticks off all the boxes, the first of course being it’s show stopper good looks! It’s egg free, it’s a one bowl cake recipe, it’s quite easily made vegan and it’s drop dead simple!

As you might have guessed, I love everything about tarts. I got this new tart tin that I’ve been dying to use. I was so pleased to see how well the cake baked up in it, left the sides and base so easily and looked so pretty! You’ll see me using it often!!

There’s something about the pairing, strawberries with chocolate, that makes dessert seem all the more special. The sweet luscious berries compliment the deep, smooth chocolate, while the pop of colour makes you want to dive right in! It’s pairing I use often, perhaps too often, but I’m not complaining!

This eggless chocolate tart cake is inspired by a dark chocolate strawberry pudding from my cookbook, that I published with Penguin in October last year.

Buy my cookbook …. **Passionate About Baking, Chocolate**

That book is my little labour of love, and I’m constantly diving into it to recreate my own recipes, or use bits and bobs from it for inspiration. The tart cake is one such example and it turned out just great! With 75% of the recipes eggfree, my recipes use simple everyday ingredients, things you will probably already have in your pantry. I also love that you can mix and match elements from it to create new desserts, something that I do often myself.

It’s drop dead easy too. Put all the ingredients for the cake into a large bowl and give them a good whisk. That’s it; the eggless chocolate cake batter is ready. Pop it into the oven for 30 minutes, cool, trim the base if you like, turn it upside down and voila, you have the perfect indentation for a filling! Moisten with Cointreau and top with the luscious 2 ingredient chocolate filling. The longest wait is for it the filling to set …

Do tag me on Instagram at passionateaboutbaking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it! Thank you for stopping by!

Chocolate Tart Cake

Deeply delicious and very indulgent. Makes one 8″ tart cake

Course Dessert

Cuisine American, British

Keyword baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, fruit, homemade, one bowl, simple, strawberries, sweet, tart, tart cake

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 45

Total Time 5

Servings 6 people

Ingredients

Eggless chocolate sponge

210 g buttermilk
35 g oil
15 g clarified butter/ghee
100 g castor sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
Pinch salt
1 tsp coffee powder
15 g cocoa powder
50 g wholewheat flour/aata
100 g plain flour

To moisten

25 ml Cointreau

Chocolate filling

150 g 25% fat cream
150 g 54% dark couverture chocolate chopped

Topping

75 g fresh strawberries
1 tsp castor sugar
Strawberries mint, edible flowers to garnish

Instructions

Eggless chocolate sponge

Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly grease an 8″ loose bottom flan tin.
In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and give them a good whisk with a hand blender or balloon whisk.
Pour the batter into the prepared tin.
Bake for 30 minutes, until the tester comes out clean.
Cool completely, then demold the cake and place it upside-down on the serving platter.

Chocolate filling

Place the chocolate and cream in a glass bowl and place over a double boiler until the chocolate melts. Stir gently until smooth. {or melt it in the microwave in short bursts}

Topping

Dice the strawberries and toss them in sugar. Mix around for 4-5 minutes until glossy, then top the cake with them.

Assemble

Moisten the cake with Cointreau or a simple sugar syrup.
Fill the cavity with the chooclate filling. Place the cake in the fridge to set for 4-5 hours/overnight.
Top with the macerated strawberries. Garnish with freshly halved strawberries, mint and edible flowers.

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Top 10 Eggless Dessert Recipes – eggless cakes & more!

Eggless Cakes & more! I went eggless in my baking a couple of years ago, something I honestly never thought would work, something I didn’t think I could successfully pull off. But as they say, never say never, my desserts are totally egg free, look quite pretty {IMHO} and are vegetarian as well {read no gelatine, only plant based setting agents}. A journey I have enjoyed immensely, a challenge of sorts, it was conversations on Instagram that largely drove the change, something I am profoundly grateful for.

Why eggless you might ask? I never did enjoy the egginess that egg based desserts had and though I made them often, I didn’t enjoy some of them. While most like special layered cakes were enjoyable indeed, my palette always picked up the aftertaste of eggs, something I just couldn’t tolerate. Yet that was just me! As the pandemic took over the world, requests for eggless recipes grew and that was a definite sign for me.

There was no looking back and I’ve come a long way. From eggless cakes, eggless layer cakes, eggless baked cheesecakes and loads in between, I have come to look at baking with new eyes. Not that there is anything wrong with baking with eggs; this is just a personal choice. You can find loads of delicious recipes using eggs on the blog and I do hope you’ll find something you like.

Best Ever Eggless Baked Chocolate Cheesecake

Best Ever Eggless Baked Chocolate Cheesecake … Deep, divine, satisfying and smooth, the clarified butter giving caramel tones to the biscuit crumb makes it even better! It's simple to bring together and most satisfying to dig into. Makes 1 8" heart shaped or round cheesecake.

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Eggless Baked Mango Swirl Cheesecake

Simple, smooth, indulgent, no cream cheese yet ever so satisfying! Makes one 6" cheesecake

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4 Ingredient Fudgy Chocolate Brownies – Eggless & Gluten-free

Fudgy, eggless, whole grain, one bowl, hand mixed and quite special, you are going to absolutely love these gluten free, millet brownies that come together in minutes.

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Vegan Rose Coconut Pudding

A light, refreshing vegan jelly pudding perfect for spring and summer. With just 4 ingredients, this wobbly pudding is as simple as it is delicious!

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Eggless Chocolate Coffee & Vanilla Ombre Cake

When chocolate, coffee and vanilla come together to create a dreamy ombre cake, it can only be good. Here's an eggless Chocolate Coffee & Vanilla Ombre Cake that is as simple as it is delicious!

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Eggless Baked Lime Curd White Chocolate Pudding

Light, dreamy, mousse like and bowl scraping good, here’s a baked eggless pudding that’ll have you hooked.

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Chocolate Orange Cavity Cake Eggless

This cake tastes beautiful, and offers an inviting citrus overload. The eggless sponge is flavoured with orange zest and is light and delightful. The cavity has layers of chocolate and vanilla cream, finished off with an interesting marmalade jelly and fresh orange wedges. All in all a delightful take on yet another variation of my cavity cake.

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Eggless Saffron Mango Tres Leches Cake

The mango season is incomplete without a mango tres leches and this egg free version is sooooo good!! You could make this with berries as well, or late summer stone fruit.

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Nama Chocolate Tart

… the name says it all! An addictive, delicious, no bake, eggless tart with a filling of the much loved Nama Chocolate. Each bite is indulgent, a celebration in a tart if you like, a gentle tease on the palette that is so sublime that it's addictive. Don't say I didn't warn you!

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Chocolate Vanilla Strawberry Jelly Cavity Cake

Another delicious version of the cavity cake, three layers fill the cavity – dark chocolate, vanilla bean white chocolate and strawberry jelly from scratch. I always have frozen berries in my freezer but you could use fresh ones too. The recipe is a simple one bowl eggless sponge, and the way to make the cavity is as simple as it looks.

Check out this recipe

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10 decadent desserts for World Chocolate Day … Have a sweet one ♥

Happy World Chocolate Day… as the saying goes

“As long as there is chocolate, there will be happiness.” Wayne Gerard Trotman

There are days and there are days, and then there’s a special day for CHOCOLATE! We never had days so deliciously marked when we were young, though chocolate was an inherent part of holidays, festivities, birthdays, actually most celebrations. That charm of chocolate was second to none. It made everyone happy!

From the almost emaciated looking Cadbury bars and 5 Star bars we bought locally in India in the 1970’s to the grand kilo slabs of Cadbury Dairy Milk and Maltesers from the UK, Hersheys bars from the States and then the triangular Swiss Toblerone, there was always much to look forward to when visitors from overseas arrived. I can never forget the Cadbury’s vintage red netted chocolate filled Christmas stockings that my aunt would religiously bring for us from the UK, the gold foil covered chocolate coins she would slip in secretly! That was what chocolate dreams were made of!

True to the words by Mariska Hargitay – “Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.”

As I began blogging, chocolate was an integral part of my pantry. Chocolate paired with everything! No trip the the US was complete without big bags of Ghirardelli or Nestle Toll House chocolate chips and tins of cocoa powder. My first stop was always the chocolate aisle in grocery stores, filling the cart like chocolate was going to get extinct. That glee when we flew back home and reached out for the loot! Chocolate always brought joy!

And then when Penguin Random House India invited me to write a cookbook, how could it be anything else. It was always going to be CHOCOLATE! I loved everything about bringing it to life – writing the recipes, the thoughts that inspired each, styling the frames, then shooting them! It was a wholly consuming affair but so worth it at the end of the day. My daughter designed the entire layout of my cookbook and I loved how good it looked in print. The cherry on the cake, a foreword by Marryam Reshii, an absolute honour for me!

The idea of a chocolate book is credited to my sweet friend Bina who blogs at A Bit Wholesomely, one she pitched while we were driving around Hyderabad several years ago. I am grateful to Penguin Random House India for believing I could do it, for my family and friends who rallied around me. You can buy a copy here on Amazon. It’s available worldwide now on Amazon and in bookstores too.

These are all memories of a lifetime and when I think of chocolate, I have so many around it, and I bet you do too. I love working with chocolate, I love creating desserts with chocolate, I love styling around chocolate and nothing can stop me shooting it!

So Happy World Chocolate Day to you. Have a delicious one. I leave you with a round up of a few chocolate recipes and you can find a load more HERE! I hope this inspires you to head to the kitchen and stir up some deliciousness!

Eggless Blue Matcha Chocolate Cavity Cake

I’ve always loved blue as a colour and it’s endlessly fascinating to see the shades of blue that the butterfly pea flower reflects in the blue matcha tea. It seemed right to try a cavity cake with a blue matcha filling, and oh my, we couldn’t stop eating it. There’s something so calming and ethereal about blue in patisserie, and this cavity cake for 2 seems a perfect place for it.

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Eggless Black Forest Dessert Box

Eggless Black Forest Dessert Box… Fresh cherries mean there's always room for dessert & dessert boxes of course!

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Eggless Chocolate Coffee & Vanilla Ombre Cake

When chocolate, coffee and vanilla come together to create a dreamy ombre cake, it can only be good. Here's an eggless Chocolate Coffee & Vanilla Ombre Cake that is as simple as it is delicious!

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Bittersweet Chocolate Eggless Sable Cookie Tart

Simple to make, eggless, deeply chocolaty with the comforting bite of a cookie in a tart! When you get so much goodness in a tart so easily, there's not much more you need.

Makes one 8" cookie tart

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Petite Eggless Triple Chocolate Orange Cakes

Petite Eggless Triple Chocolate Orange Cakes … every bit as delicious as they sound. Deep, moist, chocolaty and quite pretty, these turned out to be such fun to bring together,

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Eggless Nutella Fresh Cherry Tart

Deliciously making the best of summer produce when cherries are in plenty! This nobake tart will hit all the right spots!

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4 Ingredient Fudgy Chocolate Brownies – Eggless & Gluten-free

Fudgy, eggless, whole grain, one bowl, hand mixed and quite special, you are going to absolutely love these gluten free, millet brownies that come together in minutes.

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Ombre Coffee Chocolate Panna Cotta…with a deep coffee sauce

Ombre Coffee Chocolate Panna Cotta brings together two things I love the most – panna cotta and desserts in ombre. Loved the way it slid out, one shade slowly following another, the perfect jiggle, charming hues. Made a quick coffee sauce too though the panna cotta is really good on it's own as well. Creamy, deep flavours, satisfying.

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Dark Chocolate Panna Cotta

Delicious, divine, sinful and silky, if you love a good panna cotta and chocolate is your flavour, then dive right in! This might just be the dessert you are looking for!

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Eggless Tiramisu Chocolate Tart

Simple pantry ingredients make this delicious tiramisu inspired tart with classic flavours of coffee, Kahlua and mascarpone.

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Wholegrain Chocolate Buckwheat Sablés

Crisp, deeply chocolate, buttery, wholegrain, eggless, Wholegrain Chocolate Buckwheat Sablés are the yummiest cookies ever! Adapted from The Boy Who Bakes.

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I’ll leave you with one of my favourite quotes on chocolate …
“May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is … Chocolate.” Geraldine Solon

Do tag me on Instagram at passionateaboutbaking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

Chocolate Vanilla Strawberry Jelly Cavity Cake… just the kind of cavity you will ♥

Eggless Chocolate Vanilla Strawberry Jelly Cavity Cake … as promised last week, here it is, the recipe for this stunning cake. There are cakes and there are cakes, then there are special cakes. This is one of the special ones. They might look like a ton of work, but hey, read on…

Last week I shared the Secret To My Cavity Cake, the how to make it video. Here’s a delicious version of the cavity cake, three layers fill the cavity – dark chocolate, vanilla bean white chocolate and strawberry jelly from scratch. I always have frozen berries in my freezer but you could use fresh ones too. The recipe is a simple one bowl eggless sponge, and the way to make the cavity is as simple as it looks.

WHAT IS A CAVITY CAKE?… you might ask! It’s a cake with a cavity in the middle filled with all sorts of deliciousness. I’ve written a post about it last week, and it’s quite favourite kind of cake at my place. It was also an original idea that came to me one day while playing with cakes and steel cake/cookie cutters!

The steel baking molds I use are from my first visit to Old Delhi, a little shop I found tucked away behind a banyan tree. I returned to that shop in Lal Kuan several times over the years picking up more bakeware, each time making better choices I think! Old Delhi with all its madness and mayhem, the crowds and cacophony, the dusty old buildings, the colour and the energy has always pulled me in.

That was a time almost 20 years ago when vintage food styling props and collectibles, cookie and cake cutters, mousse rings and more meant a trip into Old Delhi, but now good old Amazon brings everything home!

Baking tins, dessert rings, bread knives, bread molds, muffin trays, icing sets, pastry bags … and lots more in a little shop in Old Delhi. Take the Metro to Chawri Bazaar, and a rickshaw from there. {They seem to have a website too now.}

Matchless Machine Tools, 1730/B, Bazar Lal Kuan, Delhi 110006. Mohd Kashif, Ctc 011 4909 8499 | 093111 50022 | 098213 41808

{Deals in bakery ware, cake mould, bread mould, muffin tray, pizza tray, cake stand, halwai ware, kitchen ware}

And so with my vast collection of cake and cookie cutters, one lazy summer afternoon, the cavity cake was born! Some things just work out well and keep getting reinvented in sooooo many different forms. This Chocolate Vanilla Strawberry Jelly Cavity Cake is just one of them. I’ve made many versions of the cavity cake, in different flavours and shapes as well! They’re always a hit. With a little prior planning, you are going to love making these on a roll!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

Chocolate Vanilla Strawberry Jelly Cavity Cake

Course Dessert

Cuisine American, British

Keyword agar agar, baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, eggless, eggless baking, eggless layered cake, fruit, homemade, strawberries, sweet

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 45

Servings 6

Ingredients

6″ eggless sponge

220 g buttermilk/plain chaach
60 g light oil
130 g sugar
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
Pinch salt
40 g whole wheat flour
160 g all-purpose flour

Chocolate layer

75 g cream
50 g dark chocolate chopped

Vanilla white chocolate layer

100 ml cream
15 g sugar
1/4 tsp agar agar
1/2 vanilla bean scraped {save shell for strawberry jelly}
20 g white chocolate

Strawberry jelly

100 g frozen strawberries {or fresh}
100 g water
40 g sugar
1/2 vanilla bean shell
1/2 tsp agar agar

Instructions

6″ eggless sponge

Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly grease and line a 6″ dessert ring lined with foil or a loose bottom baking tin
In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and whisk until smooth.
Turn into the prepared tin and bake for 40-45 minutes until the tester comes out clean.
Cool completely and level the cake.
Take a 4″ dessert ring, centralise it and few push it all the way through. Gently remove the cut out, transfer the ring gently to your serving platter. Slice one 1 cm layer from the cut out and return to the cavity and push into place to make the base.
Moisten the sponge if desired.
Pour over the chocolate layer. Place in freezer for 30 minutes to set.
Next pour the vanilla layer. Place in freezer for 30 minutes to set.
Lastly pour the strawberry jelly layer. Refrigerate for a couple of hours. Pipe the top if desired.

Chocolate layer

Heat the cream and pour over the chocolate. Let it soften, then stir until smooth. Cool to room temperature.

Vanilla white chocolate layer

Whisk together the cream, sugar and agar agar and simmer in a saucepan for 3-5 minutes
Take off heat, whisk in the scraped vanilla bean and white chocolate. Leave to cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes.

Strawberry jelly

Place everything in a saucepan and simmer until the berries soften and become mushy, pressing the berries on and off. It should take 10-15 minutes. Strain & cool until the jelly begins to thicken but is still pourable.

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Will this work with any cake?
It will work with a cake which has a tight firm crumb, with eggs or eggless. It’s best to let the cake cool completely. If in doubt, perhaps freeze it for an hour to get a neat cut. Handle with care since once you cut the cake, you are dealing with a fragile cake ring, so GENTLY does it!
Where can I find the steel cutters from?
Browse Amazon and you will find a selection of steel cutters. I have some on my Amazon shop here. Make sure you use good quality rings. They work best and last the longest!
Can I use gelatine instead of agar agar?
Yes, definitely though for the jelly I always find agar agar works best. I always do a dry run with a small portion of the filling to check on the setting properties so we don’t have surprises later. A runny cavity filling will spoil all the fun! Since every brand has a different set, it’s best to do a dry run.
Can the cake be made in advance?
Yes, certainly. The cake will keep well refrigerated and covered for 2-3 days. If you intend to use fresh garnish, please do so before serving/delivering the cake.
What is the size of this cake?
This is a 6″ cake and will serve 6 slices.
Do I have to moisten the sponge?
I always like to moisten sponges gently as it makes them taste better, but that also depends on how long you need to keep it in the fridge, storage conditions etc. Go by your instincts and generally, practice is the best way to learn what works for you!

The Secret To My Cavity Cake … the only kind of cavity you’re going to love!

The Secret To My Cavity Cake; here’s how I make it! This is for all those who have messaged me and waited patiently for a video on how I made the cavity I’m addicted to making, that fun idea that came to me a while ago. Quite a genius idea if I may say so myself ♥!

What is a cavity cake you might ask? It’s a term I coined! Think of it as the opposite of an entremet perhaps, a cake with a filling vs a cake in a filling. It’s a fun concept, much simpler than you can imagine and it works well with all cakes, with eggs or eggless. It’s a simple technique if you watch the video, and the result is quite neat.

Cavity cakes are colourful, they are fun, they offer a great surprise when you slice them AND they’re simple! Oh and of course they’re a great change from the same old boring cakes we see everyday..

Think about it – colours, layers, flavours, textures – if you can think it, you can do it!.

While thinking of different ideas for my feed on Instagram, I came up with this idea one day, not sure if it would work. Stamped out the centre of an eggless cake with a slightly smaller steel cutter and I thought that was quite neat. Now for the base. I sliced a layer of the stamped out bit and voila, a cavity cake was created. Just a couple of graded steel cake rings is what I needed!

Mango Saffron Shrikhand Cavity Cake was the first cavity cake I ever made, and it was love at first bite! This wasn’t just a simple layered cake. This delicious eggless cake had a cavity filled and then topped with the most indulgent and luxurious saffron shrikhand. That just meant more deliciousness in every bite!

The first time I posted a cavity cake on Instagram, it caused much happiness and a bit of a stir among my followers. To be honest, the level of interest caught me off guard. I was flooded with questions both on the post and in direct messages.

Each time I shared a new cavity cake there was renewed interest, more questions, requests for a how to cut such a neat cavity video etc. It was time to shoot The Secret To My Cavity Cake and here it is on the blog. It’s been recreated several times, with cakes with eggs and without and the feedback has been great.

It’s always nice to get feedback and it’s mostly been around two things – how easy the process is after watching the video, and what a surprise everyone got when the first slice was cut! I agree. Each time I slice a cavity cake, I’m wait eagerly to see the inside, the cavity. It’s always fascinating, the only kind of cavity you’re going to love!

I’ll share this delicious version of the cavity cake next week, so please stay tuned! It’s a layered cake. Three layers fill the cavity – dark chocolate, vanilla bean white chocolate and strawberry jelly from scratch. I always have frozen berries in my freezer but you could use fresh ones too. The recipe is a simple one bowl eggless sponge, and the way to make the cavity is as simple as it looks. Can’t wait to share it!

Do check out several different versions on my reels on Instagram, a few here on the blog.

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15 Delicious Eggless Desserts To Make For Mum – Happy Mother’s Day

Perfect dessert ideas for Mother’s Day! Nothing can say it better than a dessert made with love. Here’s a bunch of ideas for you to go through to rustle up something special for Mum. Whether it’s chocolate, cherries, mango, lime, strawberries, carrots or matcha, I have you covered. The desserts are all eggless and each one quite special. If you need more inspiration, please head to my feed on Instagram!