Eggless Chocolate 🍫 Cake 🍰

Ingredients

• 1 cup milk 🥛 lukewarm
• 2 tsp Vinegar
• 1/3 cup butter 🧈 melted
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 cup refined flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 1/4 cup boiling water
• 1 tbsp orange 🍊 zest(use 1/2 &1/2)
• 1 small orange 🍊 juice (2-3 tbsp)
• Chocolate 🍫 spread 1/2 cup or as required
• Orange 🍊 segments & strawberry 🍓 for garnish

Steps

1. In a nonstick pan, stir the vinegar into the lukewarm milk and leave it to rest for 2-3 minutes.
2. Mix in the butter and vanilla essence thoroughly. Sieve in all the dry ingredients and mix to a batter with no lumps. Mix in the orange zest and juice as well.
3. Clean the pan's edges, put on a lid and cook over the lowest flame for 15 minutes.
4. Seal any hole in the lid with a small piece of aluminium foil.
5. When the cake is cooked, turn off the flame and leave it to cool completely.
6. Meanwhile, pour the boiling water onto the sugar and mix thoroughly to make the sugar water for moistening the cake. Orange juice can be used instead.
7. The cooled cake will release easily: flip it onto a large plate or a cake stand. Brush all the sugar water evenly over it, or moisten it with orange juice.
8. Pour on the chocolate and spread it evenly; swirl it decoratively if you like. Decorate with orange segments, halved strawberries and orange zest, or decorate the cake as you prefer.
9. The chocolate cake is ready to enjoy.