Banana & Carrot Eggless Cake in Cooker (Food Remake)

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

My last entry to the event.. When I did not had oven, I always wondered how to bake a cake.. I knew my mom used to bake the cake in the cooker before she got her oven. But many people told not to bake in the cooker as we use sand in it and it spoils the cooker. I was scared and was not ready to loose a cooker :-))))

Then I got the recipe to bake a cake in a cooker(after I got my two ovens in the kitchen, life is like that always, Bhagwan deta hai toh chappar phadke deta hai :-))))))

Here sanjeeta kk  has used the water and separator as the base and aluminium to cover the cake, She has mentioned it as bread, but personally when I tasted, it was soft and spongy like cake. So I thought of labeling it as Cake. I hope she won't mind.

The carrot and banana combination is a hit here.

click Banana & Carrot Eggless Bread    for detailed recipe. I am not giving the whole recipe here as Its a last minute entry to the event and I can not trust my internet connection.  

Sending it to the ongoing event 

Dinner Recipes from Sonia's Kitchen' BLOG

Announcing Celebrate Sweets – Cakes event

Which is started by ME.

Thanks everyone for visiting this week to enjoy the cakes in my place. 

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Cakes(Re Mixed and Re posting)

Tried and tasted by Nivedita
Hi All,
These are few cakes from my archived posts..

Black forest cake in Microwave: My daughters and me had a very good time with these mini cakes :-)

Microwave Chocolate Cake :This became regular in my menu after I learnt to bake it.. Its amazing, super fast cake for any occasion

Microwave Egg Less Coffee Cake:-my first ever bake cake:-)))))))), I loved each bite of this and again when I tried this with coffee powder it was just yumm...

Forgot to add one more cake which is my daughter's favorite again and I had prepared this cake for my younger daughter's birthday to give in her school.


Eggless Chocolate Cake (Food Remake)

Sending it to the ongoing event 

Dinner Recipes from Sonia's Kitchen' BLOG

Announcing Celebrate Sweets – Cakes event

Which is started by ME.

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Basic Egg Less Sponge Cake(Food Remake)

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

One more cake in my blog. I hope you all are not getting bored with my daily cake recipes!!! I was waiting for these recipes and photos for long time to publish.,

I just fell in love with this cake. I never imagined that an egg less cake will be so soft, spongy and the tastiest at the same time :-))), This is the perfect cake for the beginners and for those who do not take egg but wants to eat their cake too.

I have baked this cake many times. And every time I have clicked the photos. Here are few photos.(I am not getting few more in my folders :-( , too many folders with lot of photos)

Coming to the recipe for this cake, I followed recipes from two people. Both the recipes are same. 

One is Madhuri of CookCurryNook : Basic Eggless Sponge Loaf Cake

And the other one is

Sailu of Sailu's Kitchen : Basic Eggless Cake (Using Curd)

Thank you both for so lovely recipe.

Here goes the recipe:

Ingredients:

APF -  1 1/2 cups

Fresh Yogurt - 1 cup

Sugar - 3/4 cup

Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp

Baking powder - 1 1/4 tsp

Vegetable oil (Refined oil) - 1/ 2 cup

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Method :

Preheat the oven for 10 minutes.

Cream the sugar and yogurt till the sugar melts.

Add BP and BS. Mix well and keep aside for 3 to 5minutes till the bubbles appear.

Add the vegetable oil and essence. Mix well.

Add the sieved APF and mix well but slowly and little at a time ( 2 tbsp at a time)

Transfer the mix into the 6" pan. 

Slowly pat the pan on the floor to remove any air. 

Bake it at 200 degree Centigrade for 10 minutes.

Then reduce the temperature to 175 degree and bake for 20 - 25 minutes.

Allow it to cool and turn it on the decorating plate after some time

Enjoy this tastiest cake with a cup of tea or coffee. I love this combination. Perfect for tea time :-)))

Sending it to the ongoing event 

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Announcing Celebrate Sweets – Cakes event

Which is started by ME.

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Black Forest Cake

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

This week, My blog is celebrating the CAKE WEEK. The reason is again the event. As I got stuck in the house work, I could not post regularly and my cake photos left behind. Now is the time for me to post all the cakes.

Today is the day for Black forest cake, which is my favorite... everyone's favorite in my house. And who does not like this one?

And when it comes to baking, I am a very good copycat.. I always follow the recipe from other blogs. But this time it was the recipe which I learnt in my baking class. I have collected many more versions of Black forest cake recipes, which I am going to try soon. The reason is I got the Whipped cream powder which was not available all these days. Its a wonder powder. Just add some chilled water and whip it with the blender. Wooo... you have a yummy whipped cream...

I am not sure about the reason why my cake was hard, may be it was more baking powder or old baking powder, I felt its not that soft.. may be will try soon again to find out the mistake.

The recipe is here: (I have edited it according to my taste)

Ingredients:

Cocoa powder - 1/8 cup

APF - 1/4 cup

Eggs -2

Sugar(Granule) - 1/4 cup

Baking powder - 1/2 tsp

Baking Soda -  a pinch

Hot water 1 tbsp(If required)

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Sugar syrup - 1/8 cup to soak the cake(mix equal qty of water and sugar and mix well)

Whipped cream - 1 cup

Cherries-  1/2 cup, one boil, remove seeds. Chop few cherries to spread and keep few cherries full to decorate.

Method :

• Whisk egg, sugar and vanilla essence over hot water till custard consistency. 
• Add Sieved APF, cocoa powder, baking powder and a baking soda.
• Mix it. Add little water. Mix and cut. 
• Put in a greased and dusted 6inch tin and bake in a preheated over at 180 degree for 30 minutes. RElease sides. Remove and cool.
• Cut in to 2 equal halves with a thread and soak with sugar syrup.
• If you have a ready whipped cream thats fantastic., or if you have whipped cream powder prepare the cream by adding water and keep it ready in the refrigerator for half an hour.
• Now
• take the first half of the cake.  Apply the cream, Spread chopped cherries. 
• Keep the second half of the cake on it. Soak with sugar syrup. Apply the cream again. 
• Decorate with the cherries and grated chocolate(I did not had chocolate :-(  )
• Keep in the fridge for sometime before you serve.

Sending it to the ongoing event 

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Announcing Celebrate Sweets – Cakes event

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Keep Baking :-)))


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Vegan Mango Cake(Food Remake)

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

Two years back....

I was scared of baking. The word itself made me sweat.. I never thought that I will start baking one day.

But there is always first step and we learn to walk only when we start that first step and keep on falling down and getting up again. Each fall is a lesson for us to keep the next step carefully. This is what happened with me here.

There are many times that I have wasted the whole cake, I have felt bad for the money I spent for the ingredients and taken oath that I will never bake the cake :-),. But every oath ended within 7 days. Again I had tried and again another failure...

But, now, may be I will not be a great baker or can get a job in baker's cake.. but definitely I can bake a cake which my kids love to have. I can bake a cake for my kid's small parties..

Here is my Nth number of cake... This also was a failure because I used Rice flour instead of APF..

When  I am talking about the cakes and bakes,, I would love to thank many bloggers here, who are my inspiration to keep my baking fire on in my mind..

(It definitely doesn't mean that  other bloggers are not my inspiration, but when it comes to baking, I just love to dig into these blogs and every time I have got perfect recipes. It is me who is not good at baking.) How can I forget the tips by Aparna S Mallya on how to preheat the oven before we start baking and few more. Thanks dear.

Champa of  Versatile Vegetarian Kitchen
Suma of   Cakes And More!
 Raaga of The Singing Chef 
Ria of  ♥Ria's Collection♥  and
Deeba of Passionate About baking

I don't know when will I reach their level!!!!!...

Thanks all for the great help.. You all are my teachers.

Coming to today's cake,

I have followed the recipe from Champa. :-), I think I mailed her several times with many dumb questions,before I baked this cake, and even after I baked these. But each time, she replied me promptly and with proper solution. Thanks dear.

You know that first time it was a disaster as I used rice flour.. But again I tried baking it and it came out very nice.. I enjoyed each bite..

This was the disaster cake which I prepared using rice :-))))

Click  Vegan Mango Cake for the original recipe

Sending it to the ongoing event 

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Announcing Celebrate Sweets – Cakes event

Which is started by ME.

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IYENGAR BAKERY KHARA BISCUITs for ICC May

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

Every month,  is getting more interesting, I am enjoying it and wait for the announcement every month. Sometimes, I will finish the challenge soon and its really difficult to wait for 15th of that month.

I prepared these biscuits which Srivalli has choosen from Champa's Savory Shortbread cookies / Iyengar bakery Khara Biscuit for Indian Cooking Challenge.

The very next day I prepared these and was waiting for the 15th. Here I am with my version. 

I remember mom making biscuits like these. But she had that old round, big oven like a round tiffin box. She always tried biscuits, buns, breads and cake in that. I never tried with her :-(, but here I am getting very challenging and fare chances of learning many new foods. When you are in challenge, you will do it.
That holds good with me..


Ingredients :(I used half the qty from the original recipe, it gave me more than 30 biscuits)
All purpose flour - 1 cup
Butter - 1/2 of 1/3 cup(I had fresh home made butter :-))  )
Green chilly - 1
Yogurt or curds - 2 TBSP
Sugar - 2 tsp
Salt to taste
Fresh coriander, Curry leaves and Fresh mint - 1/4 cup, finely chopped

Method:
Line the baking tray with baking sheets.
Preheat the oven at 160C

In a bowl, mix nicely the APF and salt. 

In another vessel, beat the butter and sugar till creamy. Add the yogurt and continue the beating.Add the dry ingredients. Keep on mixing without much pressure on your hands.

Add the green chilly, and green leaves chopped. Mix well. the dough will be dry. Don't add more curds or water to make it wet.

THE DOUGH SHOULD BE CRUMBLY.

Take half the portion and make into a ball. Roll into 1/4" thick chapati.

Use the Cookie cutter if you have to give the desired shapes or you can use some steel bowl with sharp edges, or bottle cap or even the normal knife to cut these to give any shape.

Transfer these on baking sheet slowly.

Bake for 18 to 20 minutes. Keep checking of getting burnt. My biscuits took 15 minutes to bake. 

They will be soft when hot. But will turn into crispy once cool.

Store in a air tight jar.

This is the last portion left out after cutting with the cookie cutter ;-)

My daughters enjoyed the biscuits with their friends. Planning to bake it again.

Keep Smiling,

Chocolate Cookies again!

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

I am getting addicted to baking. All these years I never thought that I will start baking! I always got scared with the word Baking. But last year I took a resolution(which I am always against) that I will start baking and first time I kept my promise.

Here is one more trial from my kitchen

Chocolate Cookies was my first bake after I bought my OTG. I followed the Recipe from Deepa and it was a hit. I prepared it 2-3 times and the box was empty within a day.

Then I thought of taking little risk(I am grown up :-)   ) and tried this recipe:

All Purpose Flour - 1 cup

Sugar - 1/4 cup

Brown sugar - 1/4 cup

Unsalted butter -  1/4 cup

Coco powder - 1/6 cup

Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Milk -  2 tbsp

Sugar to cover the cookies

• Grease the baking tray. 
• Preheat the oven.
• Sieve the APF, Coco powder, baking power and salt in a big vessel.
• Cream the butter and sugars till creamy and fluffy. 
• Add the sieved flour to this and mix well.
• Add milk and knead like a soft dough.
• Divide the dough in to lemon size balls. Press the balls to make round cookies shape.
• Roll the cookies slowly on a sugar to get the light sugar coating.
• Spread the cookies on baking tray.
• Keep it in the middle rack.
• Bake it on 180 degree C(350 degrees F) for 10 minutes.
• Check the cookies. If you feel they are still not done, bake for few more minutes.
• Cookies will be soft for some time before they get crisp.

Sending these cookies to  

Srilekha's EFM - Cakes and Bakes Series! event

AND

the  Bake Off event by  Champa of Versatile Kitchen

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Eggless Chocolate Cake (Food Remake)

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

I pinched myself for many times!! Is it a dream or real!Is it me who did this! 

Wait, Wait! I am not writing any suspense story. 

I baked an egg less cake and it came out real! It was spongy, it was moist, it was sweet, it was just perfect except the top crust. That was my mistake as I baked it on High temperature than mentioned.

After I brought OTG, I am not getting full time to concentrate on baking. But today I made it a point to bake a cake. But I am restricted to use Egg because of Shravana Month. So my hunting started to browse for egg less cake. As usual I landed into Sailu's world. You search anything related to food. There are few blogs where you will be directed and Sailu's  Sailu’s Kitchen is among one of those.

Ohh, she got many egg less baking recipes with her. As all of you know about my daughter's love for chocolate, I chose THIS one.

And I followed her recipe 99%, my 1% mistake was I baked it on 180degree C whereas she had mentioned to bake it on 150 degree C.

So the top crust was cracked. 

And best thing what I did was, I took little batter and put it in cup cake mold to bake. Check the click to see my wonderful baby cakes!!

My camera has some ego problem it seems! It never gives me proper flash or light when I need it. Its become difficult for me to take good photos. I don't want to buy new one now. I have to carry on with my this old friend only. I could not take nice photos of my big cake. (Please do not compare my click with her's when you visit her blog!)

I cut the top crust and took the photo. The taste was tooooo good and I never thought I can bake a cake like this.

Thanks Sailu for such a wonderful and easy recipe. I have also given the recipe with little extra tips.

Coming to the recipe:

Butter - 1/2 cup(at room temperature)

or 

Vegetable oil - 1/2 cup

Brown sugar - 2 tbsp(if you do not have, use normal sugar and let me know, I think it should not make much difference)

Water - 2/3 cup

Sweetened Condensed milk - 1 tin(400gm), I used Nestle

Maida or APF - 1 3/4 cup

Cocoa Powder - 1/4 cup

Baking Soda - 3/4 tsp(Use new one, the cake will not come out good if Baking soda and powder are old)

Baking Powder - 1 3/4 tsp

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Vanilla Essence - 2 tsp

1. Grease and dust an 8" baking pan of desired shape
2. Preheat over to 150degree C.
3. Sieve APF, baking powder, Baking soda, cocoa powder and salt at least 3 times and keep aside.(It helps the flour to get mixed properly and get aerated. 
4. Mix the sugar, butter, condensed milk and water with blender or beater.
5. Add the Vanilla essence and flour slowly in batches to this to get the batter of ribbon consistency.
6. Bake in preheated over for 40-45 minutes of till you get clean toothpick out of the cake when you insert it.
7. PLEASE FOLLOW THE RECIPE TO GET GOOD RESULT.
8. DO NOT OVER BEAT THE BATTER.
9. DO NOT KEEP THE BATTER OUTSIDE FOR LONG TIME ONCE IT IS READY.IT SHOULD GO DIRECTLY INTO THE PAN AND THEN INTO THE OVEN.

Wonderful cake is ready to serve. If you are lucky to get the ingredients to decorate the cake you can do it. I do not get whipped cream here, and I still have to learn to make it at home. Till then enjoy my cake without makeup!

Sending this to,

Priya's  Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday Event.

And  the  Bake Off event by  Champa of Versatile Kitchen
And this is going to
EFM - Cakes and Bakes Series! hosted by  Sri of  Me and My Kitchen .

Keep Smiling,