Whole Wheat Ragi Chocolate Cake
This super easy and vegan Recipe for Whole Wheat Ragi Chocolate Cake is a healthy twist to regular chocolate cake. You can make this cake in a regular oven or on the stove top. Ragi is also known as finger Millet, Nachni, Kezhvaragu, Madua.
Equipment
- standard measuring cup (240 ml)
- Mixing bowls
- Dutch Oven or any other Heavy Bottomed Pot if baking on stove top
- Oven
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients
- 1 cup Almond or Soya Milk
- 1 tbsp Vinegar or Lime Juice
- 1 cup Jaggery or Brown Sugar
- ⅓ cup Olive Oil or any other neutral flavored oil
- 1½ tsp Vanilla Extract
- ¼ cup Unsweetened Choco Chip
Dry Ingredients
- 1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
- ½ cup Finger Millet Flour. Also known as Ragi, Nachni, Madua. You can substitute Finger Millet flour with Whole Wheat Flour.
- ¼ cup Dark Cocoa Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- ¼ tsp Salt
Ingredients for the Glaze
- ½ cup Unsweetened Dark Chocolate Chips
- 1 tbsp Dark Cocoa Powder
- 1 tbsp Plant Butter
- 2 tsp Jaggery or Brown Sugar
- 2 tbsp Almond or Soy Milk
Instructions
Prepare Wet Mix
- Add Milk and Vinegar and keep aside for 10 minutes for milk to curdle into buttermilk.
- Add all other ingredients except chocolate chip
Prepare Dry Mix
- Sift all ingredients to aerate
Assemble
- Add dry ingredients to the wet mix.
- Also add choco chips
- Pour batter in a greased and lined baking Pan. This cake will fit into a 6 inch round pan properly.
- If baking in the oven, then bake in a preheated oven @360°F/180°C for 35 minutes. Use the middle rack for baking.
- If baking on stove top, then preheat a heavy bottomed pan or Dutch oven on gas for 15 minutes.
- Place the cake inside.
- Cover with lid and bake for 35 minutes on stove top.
- Take the cake out and let it cool completely.
- You can use the basic sponge as it is for any further dessert or cake.
- For the glaze, add all ingredients in a small dry pan.
- Heat water in a pan. Keep the mix on boiling water and let it melt. You can also microwave it.
- Pour the glaze over the baked cooled cake.
- Make any other decoration as per choice.Enjoy a delicious treat.
