Chocolate Cake (Eggless)

This is my first cake ever, and the first dish, too, that I baked in my very first oven (which was a gift from my parents on my first-oops!-27th birthday this year), for my very first huby- hahhaa!
My  mother was suprised at my success as she felt that chocolate cakes are hard to rise, but this turned out just perfect. I was surprised myself of the fact that an amateur like me could do it so easily!

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour (maida)
3 tbsp cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp soda bicarbonate
1/2 cup butter (do not use melted butter!)
1/2 cup fine sugar(if sugar is not fine, grind it in electric grinder)
1/2 can(200 ml) condensed milk (if you don't prefer condensed milk, you could add 1 1/2 cup milk and 1 1/2 cup sugar- instead of 1/2 cup sugar-in which case, you don't have to add the 3/4 cups of water)
1 tsp vanilla essence
3/4 cup water

Method:

1. Sieve together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and soda bicarb; keep aside.
2. Cut butter, that has been just taken out of the fridge and kept for 5 minutes, into smaller pies.
3. Mix the butter with sugar in a mixing bowl, using a hand mixer(or electric mixer). Add in the condensed milk, vanilla essence and water, mixing each time an ingredient has been added.
4. To the above mixture, add the sieved flour mixture, little by little, mixing each time.
5. Grease the baking pan with butter and dust it with a little flour till the entire inside of the baking pan is covered with the flour.
6. Pour the cake mixture into the pan(lick the bowl!) and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degree Celsius(360 degree Fahrenheit) for 30 minutes or till a knife inserted into the cake comes out clean.
7. Cool and transfer onto a plate.