Eggless Blueberry Chocolate Cake … a refreshing burst of flavour! SO GOOD!

Eggless Blueberry Chocolate Cake … Delicious desserts that are full of flavour and just so simple to make are what make me happiest! This layered eggless cake is one of those where chocolate lovers meet blueberry lovers, the best of both worlds really! 

Call me the lazy fast track baker, but my simple eggless sponge is what makes my baking fun! One bowl, add all the ingredients, quickly whisk them until smooth and in under 10 minutes with no fuss at all, the cakes are baking. It forms the base for SO MANY of my desserts

These always bake up perfect as you might have noticed and inspire me to create endless desserts using this very simple, one bowl, eggless recipe as the base. Infinite possibilities as you can see, and these are only a handful. If you stop by my feed on Instagram, you’ll know what I’m talking about!

Back to blueberries and they’re a favourite ingredient in my kitchen. Easily available, quite sturdy and not very perishable, I use blueberries a LOT in desserts. That natural blue always shines. One of my favourites is that No Bake Blueberry Swirl Cheesecake you see above. You can find the recipe here. It’s a fuss free, no gelatine vegetarian dessert and it tastes amazing!

You can find most of my recipes on Instagram on my recipe handle PAB Recipes and some here on my blog. The Ombre Blueberry Cheesecake is one I shared very recently on the blog. It’s much too delicious and really simple to make. I hope you try try making it. Anything ombre gets my vote and this was so worth it!

Did I tell you that the 4 ingredient blueberry cream cheese filling and frosting in this eggless Blueberry Chocolate Cake is finger licking good? Very addictive, delicious actually, it’s light, creamy, smooth, glossy and doesn’t get too firm like a buttercream. Do make sure you use a nice full fat cream cheese to get it to the right consistency. Unlike traditional frostings, this blueberry frosting doesn’t use cups and cups of icing sugar to get it going. I used just enough to sweeten it if you know what I mean.

The blueberry compote adds a ton of flavour and moistness to this pretty as a picture Blueberry Chocolate Cake, the drips of blueberry syrup quite delightful. I have a detailed blueberry compote recipe on the blog if you like. It’s quite the perfect, simple recipe that comes together in 10 minutes.

Once the cakes are baked and the blueberry compote is ready and cool, assembling doesn’t take a lot of time. Once assembled, I like to chill the cake for a couple of hours for it to get moist and for the flavours to mature. After that, slice this addictive good, earthy Blueberry Chocolate Cake & ENJOY!

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


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Eggless Blueberry Chocolate Cake

This layered eggless cake is one of those where chocolate lovers meet blueberry lovers, the best of both worlds really! The one bowl eggless cake is as simple as the blueberry cream cheese filling & frosting. The recipe is really a cake walk!
Makes one 6" dessert cake
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword baking, blueberries, cake, chocolate, cream, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, fruit, homemade, no eggs, no gelatine, one bowl, sweet, V day, vegetarian
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Chill 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Servings 6 people

Ingredients

Eggless chocolate sponge

  • 210 g buttermilk
  • 50 g oil
  • 100 g castor sugar
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • Pinch salt
  • 15 g cocoa powder
  • 50 g wholewheat flour/aata
  • 100 g all purpose flour/maida

Blueberry compote

  • 100 g blueberry frozen or fresh
  • 30 g sugar
  • 1 tsp cornflour
  • 1 tbsp water
  • Juice of /2 lime

Blueberry Cheesecake Filling

  • 200 g cream cheese full fat, chilled
  • 40 g whipping cream 30% fat, chilled
  • 50 g icing sugar
  • 1 1/4 tsp blueberry powder

Blueberry Cheesecake Frosting

  • Remaining 135g blueberry cheesecake filling from above
  • 100 g cream cheese full fat, chilled
  • 25 g icing sugar
  • 1/2 tsp blueberry powder

Instructions

Eggless Chocolate Sponge

  • Makes two 6" cakes
  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Line two 6″ tins with parchment.
  • In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and give them a good whisk until .
  • Pour the batter into the tins, about 260g per tin, and bake for 18-20 minutes, until done or the tester comes out clean. Cool completely on the rack. Trim the tops.

Blueberry compote

  • Place all the ingredients EXCEPT lime juice in a heavy bottom pan and simmer slowly until the berries begin to soften and release their juices.
  • Strain the berries out into a bowl and reserve.
  • Reduce the syrup over low heat until very thick, then add it back to the reserved berries.
  • Stir in the lime juice. Cool completely..

Blueberry Cheesecake Filling

  • In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese and icing sugar until nice and smooth. Beat in the whipping cream adding the blueberry powder ¼ tsp at a time until you reach the desired colour.

Blueberry Cheesecake Frosting

  • Turn the leftover filling into a large bowl and add the remaining ingredients for the frosting. Whip until smooth, adding more blueberry powder if required to reach the desired colour.

Assemble

  • Place a 6” sponge on a serving platter. Top with the blueberry cheesecake filling followed by the blueberry compote after straining out excess liquid if required.
  • Top with the second sponge and very gently push downwards to sandwich into place. Place it in the freezer for 30 minutes for the filling to firm up slightly.
  • Frost with the blueberry cheesecake frosting and garnish as desired.
  • Slice and serve immediately or refrigerate until required

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Eggless Brownie Fudge Cake … 5 ingredients to deliciousness. The magic of simple desserts!

Eggless Brownie Fudge Cake … if you are torn between eating brownies or a cake, then this is for you. It’s the best of both worlds where deep, delicious fudgy brownies meets chocolate cake. If you dive in further, you’ll find the promise of pudding as well, so it’s a win win, and a deeply delicious one at that!

This fudgy cake is a hug in a bowl, one of those desserts than you can whip up at a moments notice. It’s comfort eating at best, something that really warms you up and gives you that sweet fix you need. The Brownie Fudge Cake is a great winter dessert option for the holiday season. That bar of chocolate on top is completely optional but melts quite prettily on top of the cake as it steps out of the oven! It adds a frosting of sorts to every bite.

This fudgy bake is as simple as it is delicious, a dessert that gives you instant gratification. 5 ingredients, one bowl, whisked in 2 minutes, baked in under 20 minutes and ready to be eaten immediately. Sold? Dive right in! That’s the magic of simple chocolate desserts!

… Never underestimate the joy of CHOCOLATE. You can add a small touch of chocolate to dessert or make it totally chocolate, what’s not to love! I think it’s my favourite ingredient in dessert, one that always makes me happy. Go down my feed on Instagram, and you’ll know what I’m talking about ♥ !!

I love that you can go gluten free with this Eggless Brownie Fudge Cake too. I’ve made it with sorghum flour/jowar ka aata as well, a millet flour, and it turned out quite nice. It tends to thicken a little more because of the nature of the millet flour, so perhaps use 10g less than all purpose flour, else add a dash of extra milk.

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!

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Eggless Brownie Fudge Cake

This is as simple as it is delicious, the dessert gives you instant gratification. 5 ingredients, a one bowl, whisked in 2 minutes, baked in under 20 minutes and ready to be eaten immediately. Sold? Dive right in!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, British
Keyword baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, one bowl, simple, sweet, vegetarian
Servings 2 people

Ingredients

  • 140 g 55% dark couverture chocolate melted
  • 140 g sweetened condensed milk room temperature
  • 40 g milk warm
  • 50 g all purpose flour maida
  • 1 tsp baking powder

Chocolate bar

  • 60g 55% dark couverture chocolate melted

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180C.
  • Melt the chocolate in a large bowl and stir in the rest of the ingredients.
  • Turn the batter into a 6" bowl and bake for 17-20 minutes. Tent the top with a sheet of foil into 10 minutes of baking to stop the top from overbrowning.
  • Top with a bar of chocolate (optional), let it stand for 5 minutes and serve immediately.

Chocolate bar

  • Pour the melted chocolate into a chocolate bar silicon mold big enough to fit the baking dish. Tap sharply to get rid of any air bubbles and distribute the melted chocolate.
  • Place in the freezer for 10-15 minutes until set. Demold and trim with a sharp heated knife if you need to. Refrigerate until required. The bar can be made in advance, or can be set while the cake is baking.

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15 Prettiest Mother’s Day Eggless Desserts As Sweet As Her … Love for Mum

It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow, and if you’re still looking for creative and beautiful quick desserts to make for that special Mum, I have you covered! It’s a mix of ideas, recipes of course, ideas that are eggless, bake and no bake, and are full of love, colour too!

There’s something for every Mum. Chocolate, coffee, a TON of fruits, AND a ton of flavours. Cheesecake, layered cakes, panna cotta, Tiramisu, tart cakes, dessert shots, tarts, cupcakes, pudding … take your pick! From a quick 3 ingredient chocolate pudding to a Strawberry Orange Tart Cake and a #nogelatine pistachio panna cotta, here you go!

Of course there are many more ideas on the blog and loads more on my Instagram handle if you like! This Eggless Wholewheat Biscoff Banana Bread is a favourite, just saying! If you’re looking for a quick gift and have no time to make something, maybe she’d like my cookbook!

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!

The simplest & most delicious No Bake Mango Cheesecake
Sweet, creamy, indulgent and so satisfying, if Mum loves mangoes, make this for her. A recipe that uses just 4 ingredients for the cheesecake filling, this is the quickest, eggless, no bake mango cheesecake I've ever made!
Check out this recipe
Tiramisu heart cake… A gentle, delicious dessert for tiramisu lovers and coffee lovers, dessert lovers too!
This one is for Mum the coffee lover! It's a gentle, delicious dessert for tiramisu lovers and coffee lovers, dessert lovers too! This is ALL HEART!
Check out this recipe
Eggless Blue Matcha Chocolate Cavity Cake
It's endlessly fascinating to see the shades of blue that the butterfly pea flower reflects in the blue matcha tea. There's something so calming and ethereal about blue in patisserie, it's a great choice for Mother's Day!
Check out this recipe
Eggless Raspberry Chocolate Cake
An eggless chocolate sponge, deep delicious ganache, bright fresh raspberries topped with the smoothest and most luxurious mascarpone cream. The flavours do a magic dance on the palette, each spoonful delightful. The raspberries were quite special here though you can always use strawberries if you like. Makes 4 small cakes.
Check out this recipe
Pistachio Panna Cotta with Raspberry Sauce
I love using natural colours of ingredients in desserts and this pistachio panna cotta is one Mum will fall in love with. The #nogelatine dessert is as simple as can be, and requires just 4 ingredients.
Check out this recipe
Eggless Strawberry Orange Tart Cake
… a delicious burst of flavours and colours in a tart which is a cake OR a cake that looks like a tart! If Mum loves a tart this is for her, and if Mum loves a good cake, you know this is it! Win Win for sweet Mum!
Check out this recipe
Eggless Strawberry Dessert Box
… Light as a cloud and bursting with fresh flavours, a refreshing dessert box you can wrap up for Mum. The little strawberries on the sides are all heart and just what she's going to love!
Check out this recipe
Quick Biscoff Dessert Shots
Delicious layers of happiness on repeat! These simple dessert shots are absolute joy; so much flavour and texture, oh-so-pleasing on the palette, it's a fuss free dessert inspired by much loved Biscoff. The pairing of these crisp biscuits and biscuit spread, a taste that grows on you, will make Mum so happy!
Check out this recipe
3 Ingredient Chocolate Cheesecake
Light, delicious and mousse like, this no bake cheesecake uses just 3 ingredients, 5 if you include the base. When so little yields so much deliciousness, you know it's time to make it! And if Mum loves chocolate, or cheesecake, or both, this is definitely a good idea ♥
Check out this recipe
No bake Mango Mascarpone Tart
Here's another scrumptious idea for Mum the mango lover! A crisp biscuit crumb gives way to a nice bite of slightly tart mango, then the sweetness of mascarpone floods the palette. The jelly really makes this shine!
Check out this recipe
Eggless Saffron Pistachio Cupcakes with Saffron Buttercream
Sweet dreams are made of these! Festive, simple and ever so delicious, these are literal cupcakes baked in demitasse cups. Perfect for Mum. I'm sure she'll love the idea!
Check out this recipe
3 Ingredient Chocolate Pudding
.. Rich, deeply delicious, satiny smooth and ever so easy, anyone can stir this up in a matter of minutes. Nothing can comfort the soul like a good indulgent old school chocolate pudding. This is going to be ahit with Mum!
Check out this recipe
Vegan Rose Coconut Pudding
A light, refreshing vegan jelly pudding perfect for spring and summer, perfect for now and PERFECT FOR MUM! With just 4 ingredients, this wobbly pudding is as simple as it is delicious!
Check out this recipe
Biscoff Banoffee Box
This is love at first bite. It's such fun when a handful of ingredients come together so deliciously. If Mum loves a good banoffee, this Biscoff twist to the banoffee is everything good. It's really easy to make as well.
Check out this recipe
Eggless Ombre Layered Cake… Delicate, delicious and so soothing.
The chocolate, coffee and vanilla bean combination really is sublime. This feels like a tiramisu yet does a different waltz on the palette, a different flavour profile! Maybe it's the mascarpone cream that keeps it so addictive, maybe it's the pairing of flavours but this ombre cake will win Mums ♥.
Check out this recipe

Eggless Pistachio Cranberry Chocolate Cake… Christmas special!

Eggless Pistachio Cranberry Chocolate Cake … Layers of chocolate deliciousness uplifted with bits of pistachios and dried cranberries through the cake. This cake is perfect for Christmas with the flavours and colours coming together so well! It’s the most wonderful time of the year and I hope you are baking a ton as well!

That’s a bit of what I’ve baked the last few weeks! This is the best time to bake and one of my favourite seasons. With winter at it’s peak, it’s wonderful being in the kitchen next to a warm oven. It’s also a time when inspiration is at it’s peak and ingredients and ideas dance in my head! Can you tell?

I’ve really enjoyed creating recipes for the United States Department of Agriculture using their wonderful produce – pistachios, almonds, walnuts, pecans, cranberries, even frozen blueberries. You can find some of the recipes here on reels on my Instagram feed, and now this Eggless Chocolate Pistachio Cranberry Cake. Do follow me on Instagram to see my recipes assembly videos on @passionateaboutbaking with recipes on my recipe handle @pabrecipes

At the risk of repeating myself, nothing screams the colours of Christmas better than bright green pistachios and jewel like deep red dried cranberries, both of which I’ve used a load over these holidays. I’m absolutely loving it! Oh, and there’s a giveaway on my Instagram handle with the United States Department of Agriculture. Do head HERE to enter!

That lace collar though!! I love making a chocolate collar for cakes, a touch I always find special, one I’ve done for years. It elevates a simple cake to something special. It’s as simple as piping melted chocolate on a strip of parchment, waiting for it to get a little firm, then wrapping it around a frosted cake. Set the cake in the fridge until the chocolate is firm, 10-15 minutes usually, peel off the parchment…TADA!

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

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Eggless Chocolate Pistachio Cranberry Cake

Layers of chocolate deliciousness are uplifted with bits of pistachios and dried cranberries through the cake. This cake is perfect for Christmas with the flavours and colours coming together so well!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, homemade, one bowl, simple, sweet
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
2 hours
Total Time 3 hours 15 minutes
Servings 6

Ingredients

Eggless chocolate sponge

  • 210 g cultured buttermilk Amul plain chaach
  • 60 g oil
  • 100 g castor sugar
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 3/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • Pinch salt
  • 15 g cocoa powder
  • 160 g plain flour

Chocolate ganache

  • 250 g cream, 25% fat Amul Fresh
  • 250 g 54% dark couverture chocolate chopped
  • 50 g American pistachios peeled, chopped
  • 35 g American dried cranberries chopped

Topping

  • Pistachio slivers, dried cranberries, edible flowers

Instructions

Eggless chocolate sponge

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Line a 6″ Springform/loose bottom tin with parchment.
  • In a large bowl, add all the ingredients except the flour and give them a good whisk. Stand for 3 minutes until the mixture is slightly bubbly, then whisk in the plain flour. Transfer to the prepared tin and bake for 35-40 minutes, until the tester comes out clean.
  • Cool completely, then trim the top if required and slice into 3 layers.

Chocolate ganache

  • Place the chocolate and cream in a glass bowl and place over a double boiler until the chocolate melts.
  • Stir gently until smooth. Rest at room temperature, whisking now and then. Refrigerate about 2/3 for the piping on top, and keep the remaining to spreadable consistency for the filling.
  • Any ganache left over from the filling can be whisked back into the reserved ganache for piping.

Assemble

  • Place one layer on the serving platter and top with about 100g of chocolate ganache.
  • Sprinkle the filling with finely chopped pistachios and dried cranberries.
  • Repeat for the other layers. Frost the sides and top with the remaining ganache.
  • Garnish with slivered pistachios, dried cranberries and edible flowers.

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!

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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 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
4 hours
Total Time 5 hours
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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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!

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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. 
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 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
8 hours
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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  1. 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!

  2. 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!

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. What is the size of this cake?

    This is a 6″ cake and will serve 6 slices.

  6. 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!

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