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Eggless Chocolate Cake – flax egg chocolate cake – Eggless Flaxseed Chocolate Cake
🥄 Prep: 15 min
🔥 Cook: 10 min
🍽 Serves: 2 servings
A deeply chocolatey, eggless cake made with real food ingredients that tastes indulgent and bakes up perfectly every single time.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
If you have been searching for a rich, fudgy chocolate cake that is completely eggless, this Eggless Flaxseed Chocolate Cake from Bake With Neetu is exactly what you have been waiting for. Neetu Sirigiri, MasterChef India Telugu Top 8 finalist, brings you a decadent bake that proves you do not need eggs to create something truly spectacular.
Flaxseed powder is a powerhouse ingredient packed with omega-3 fatty acids, fiber, and plant-based protein that binds your batter beautifully without a single egg. The combination of coffee decoction and cocoa powder deepens the chocolate flavor while keeping this cake wholesome and nourishing.
- ✅ Flaxseed powder acts as a natural egg replacer, adding fiber and omega-3 fatty acids that make this cake nutritious as well as delicious
- ✅ Coffee decoction enhances the depth of the cocoa powder, giving you a richer and more intense chocolate flavor without any artificial additives
- ✅ Buttermilk made with milk and vinegar tenderizes the crumb and keeps every slice moist and soft for days after baking
- ✅ This recipe is completely eggless and made with real food ingredients, making it a wonderful choice for vegetarians and anyone looking for a wholesome homemade treat
Ingredients You’ll Need
(Full measurements in the recipe card below)
Dry Ingredients
- • 1+3/4 cups maida/flour — base structure
- • 1/3 cup cocoa powder — rich chocolate flavour
- • 1 cup sugar — sweetness
- • 1 tsp baking powder — lift and rise
- • 1/4 tsp baking soda — reacts with buttermilk
- • pinch of salt — enhances flavour
Wet Ingredients
- • 1 cup unsalted butter — moisture and richness
- • 1/4 cup buttermilk — tenderness and tang
- • 1/3 cup coffee decoction — deepens chocolate taste
- • 2 tbsp flaxseed powder — egg replacer
- • 1/3 cup chocolate chips — melted into batter
- • vanilla essence — rounds out flavour
Substitutions
| Ingredient | Swap |
|---|---|
| maida | gluten-free flour blend for GF version |
| sugar | coconut sugar for less refined option |
| buttermilk | non-dairy milk plus 2 tsp vinegar |
How to Make It — Step by Step
Make Flax Egg
Mix 2 tbsp flaxseed powder with 6 tbsp water and rest for 10 minutes until it becomes gel-like.
Prep Buttermilk
Combine 1/4 cup milk with 2 tsp vinegar, stir and set aside for 5 minutes to curdle.
Mix Dry Ingredients
Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.
Combine Wet Ingredients
Melt butter with chocolate chips, then stir in coffee decoction, buttermilk, flax egg and vanilla essence until smooth.
Bake
Fold wet into dry ingredients, pour into a greased tin and bake at 180 degrees C for 30 to 35 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
Tips for the Best Result
Mix the flaxseed powder with 6 tablespoons of water and let it sit for 10 minutes before using. It will thicken into a gel that binds the cake just like a real egg would.
The coffee decoction does not make the cake taste like coffee – it deepens the chocolate flavour beautifully. Use strong filter coffee or instant coffee dissolved in hot water.
Make sure your unsalted butter is soft and at room temperature before creaming with sugar. Cold butter will not cream properly and will affect the texture of your cake.
How to Store
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, you can use whole wheat flour but the cake will be slightly denser. For best results, use a 50/50 mix of whole wheat and maida.
Mix 1/4 cup of any plant-based milk with 2 teaspoons of vinegar or lemon juice and let it sit for 5 minutes – it works perfectly.
Yes, the chocolate chips are optional. You can skip them or replace them with chopped walnuts or dried cherries for extra texture.
This usually happens when the flax egg is not given enough time to gel, or when the butter and sugar are not creamed well enough – do not rush these steps.
Nutrition Per Serving
| Nutrient | Per Serving (2 servings) |
|---|---|
| Calories | — |
| Protein | — |
| Carbohydrates | — |
| Fiber | — |
| Fat | — |
| Sugar | — |
Estimates only — values vary with exact brands used.
Ingredients
- → 1+3/4 cups of maida/flour
- → 1/3 cup of chocolate chips
- → 1/4 cup of buttermilk(1/4 cup milk+2 tsp of vinegar)
- → Vanilla essence
- → 1 cup unsalted butter
- → 2 tbsp Flaxseed powder
- → 1/3 cup coffee decoction
- → 1 cup sugar
- → 1/4 tsp of baking soda
- → 1 tsp of baking powder
- → Pinch of salt salt
- → 1/3 of cocoa powder
Instructions
- 1. Mix 2 tbsp flaxseed powder with 6 tbsp water and rest for 10 minutes until it becomes gel-like.
- 2. Combine 1/4 cup milk with 2 tsp vinegar, stir and set aside for 5 minutes to curdle.
- 3. Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.
- 4. Melt butter with chocolate chips, then stir in coffee decoction, buttermilk, flax egg and vanilla essence until smooth.
- 5. Fold wet into dry ingredients, pour into a greased tin and bake at 180 degrees C for 30 to 35 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
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