Eggless orange-Carrot Cake

My first ever eggless cake. I had bookmarked this recipe since long but got Christmas 'Muhurat' to make this. It turned out very nice and spongy. My brother Sameer liked it. I was very much happy to listen his compliment. Special thanks to Rak's Kitchen, from her blog I had tried this cake. Only change or addition is I have added carrot to cake to enhance it's taste.

Ingredients

All purpose flour (APF) - 1 & 1/4 cup

Condensed Milk - 1 cup

Orange juice - 1/2 cup

Grated carrot - 1/4 cup

Sunflower Oil - 1/2 cup

Powdered sugar - 3 tablespoons

Baking powder - 1 teaspoon

Baking soda - 1/2 teaspoon

Orange Zest - 1/2 teaspoon

Lemon Juice - 1 tsp

Orange essence - 1 teaspoon



Procedure

Preheat oven at 180 degree C. Sieve dry items, that is APF, Baking powder, Baking soda. Now in a deep bowl pour oil, orange juice, lime juice, essence, condense milk. Add powder sugar then whisk it nicely. It should be fluffy mixture. Now add grated carrot and orange zest and mix wel. Then add dry ingredient little by little and mix well. Take care that no lumps should form while mixing. Grease the baking pan with butter and dust it with APF. Now pour the batter in pan neatly. Bake it for 30 minutes. Let it cool down on wire rack. Lovely orange flavored spongy eggless cake is ready to serve. So now pure vegetarian people also can enjoy their Christmas with this cake:-)

Banana Cake

As winter & Christmas days are coming closer….my kitchen again started smelling cakes :-).  Just for a change instead of  chocolate or pineapple,  I made Banana cake. Oh! wow, it tastes so very nice. We just loved it. This recipe is adapted from one very old Marathi recipe book 'RUCHIRA' by Kamalabai Ogale.

 

Ingredients:

All purpose flour -  2 cups
Eggs  - 2

Sugar - 1 cup

Butter - 1/2 cup

Baking soda - 1 teaspoon

Baking powder - 1 teaspoon

Salt - 1/4th teaspoon

Over ripped banana - 3

Limejuice - 1/4 teaspoon

Milk - as required

Procedure

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease square pan  with butter and dust with flour. Keep it aside.  Sift all dry items that is flour, Baking powder and baking soda. Cream butter, sugar and salt.  Now add eggs and beat it nicely. Then add mashed bananas and lime juice. Mix it well. Now add the sifted flour mixture to this beaten mixture little by little and beat well till blended smoothly. You can add milk if required for the dropping consistency.  Pour this batter in greased pan. Bake it at 180 degrees C for 20-25 minutes.  Cool in the pan for few minutes. Turn out on the wire rack for cooling. Can be served warm for a breakfast.

Merry Christmas with Plum Cake

Wish u all A Merry Christmas!!!

From Last year I was planning to make Plum cake for Christmas, but some how I missed it. But this year I prepared it wel in advanced. Soaked the nuts in Rum 5 days back. And yes My plum cake turned out very nice.



Ingredients


Chopped dry fruits - 1 cup (dates, black raisins, walnuts, dry cherries, cashews, almond, Tuty fruity)

Rum - 1/2 cup

Orange peel - 1 teaspoon

Maida - 1 cup

Powdered sugar - 1, 1/4 cup

Baking Powder - 1 Teaspoon

Nutmeg powder - 1/8 teaspoon

Dry ginger Powder - 1/8 teaspoon

Cinnamon Powder - 1/4 teaspoon

Cardamom Powder - 1/4 teaspoon

Butter - 100 gms.

Eggs - 3

Orange juice - 1 tablespoon Vanilla essence - 1 teaspoon

Sugar - 1/2 cup for caramel



Procedure

Soak all chopped nuts and orange peel in a Rum for 4-5 days. You can store it in a fridge for a longer.

For Caramel
In a nonstick pan heat 1/2 cup of sugar on low flame. Continuously stir till it melts fully and caramalised. Now add 1/4 th cup of water and stir it immediately. Boil it for another 1 minute and let it cool it for some time.

Now the main part. Beat butter and sugar till becomes fluffy. Now add eggs one by one and beat it for 3-4 minutes. Mean while sift Maida and Baking Powder. Now add sifted maida and Baking powder in the beaten batter Then add all spice powders, then caramel syrup. Mix it properly with cut fold. Now add Soaked dry frits, orange juice and vanilla essence. Mix it with moving spatula in one direction. Preheat the oven to 180 C. Grease the Square baking tray or place a grease proof paper or Butter paper. Pour the batter in the tray. Bake the mixture for about 25 - 30 Minutes or when you pierce the tip of the knife and it comes out clean. Cool it on a rack . For authentic taste sprinkle some rum on the cake and then serve it.

Choco Strawberry

Today is a Birthday of my dear friend Pari. I am wishing her a very happy birthday and a wonderful year ahead. This lovely Choco Strawberry is for you dear on your Birthday!!!!

One more Dessert …….. It's really very easy and Quick. Strawberry with chocolate goes very wel. It's really a party and strawberry season … so lets enjoy it.

Ingredients


Chocolate chips - 1 cup

Strawberry - 15-20

Oil - 1 teaspoon


Procedure
Wash strawberries and dry it completely. Take chocolate chips in microwave safe bowl and add oil in it keep it in microwave high for 40-50 seconds. Take it out and mix it wel. It will become very smooth. Now hold from the green part of strawberry and deep it in chocolate bowl. Once rotate it so that chocolate will get coated everywhere. Place it on a butter paper. If you want you can further decorate with silver balls. Now keep in fridge for half an hour. Lovely combo dessert is ready. Serve as one of a dessert in party.
 

Caramelized banana Sandwich with Vanilla Ice-cream

As December is already started … and party fever is already spread. My big trouble of deciding party menu is a dessert part. I am very bad in that. I regularly in search of some quick and easy desserts. This caramelized banana, I tried when I read it in one blog (sorry I don't remember the name of blog or blogger). So I modified it with stuffing with coconut & jaggery stuffing. Tastes awesome with Vanilla Ice-cream.

 
Ingredients
Banana - 4 (I used small one)

Sugar - 1/4 cup

Ghee - 1 teaspoon

Orange juice - 1 cup

Cinnamon powder - 1/2 teaspoon


For Stuffing

Grated fresh coconut - 1/2 cup

Powdered jaggery - 4 tablespoon

Cardamom Powder - 1/4 teaspoon

Vanilla Ice-cream - 2 scoop

For decoration - Chopped pistachios, almonds and walnuts (optional)



Procedure

For Stuffing
On a slow flame add 1/4 teaspoon pure ghee grated coconut and jaggery in kadai and cook it till the mixture becomes dry (stir in between). Then add Cardamom powder , mix it and remove it from flame. Allow it cool for some time.

In a nonstick pan heat sugar on low flame. Continuously stir till it melts fully and caramalised. Now add ghee, orange juice and again stir continuously. It will start boiling. Reduce it till it becomes thick like sauce.

Now slit the banana vertically. Stuff the coconut mixture into it. If you are using big banana then cut the banana into two pieces. Arrange it on a baking dish. Pour the sauce over banana. Bake it in preheated oven for 15 minutes at 180 degree Celsius. Serve banana with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream and spred chopped nuts on it. (I have not used the nuts because I don't like it). You can make banana sandwich wel before the party and serve with ice-cream on the spot.

 
This goes to aipi of  US MASALA's "Veggie/Fruit a Month - Banana" event and Priya.
 

Chocolate and Walnut Brownie

Last Christmas I made Sizzling brownie. The recipe of brownie was very easy and eggless. I wanted to try walnut brownie recipe and I selected my friend Purva's method. She had prepared the brownie for her husband's birthday. I think his birthday is somewhere in December…. So wish a very happy birthday from all of us. Wow it turned out very well. Purva, Thanks a lot dear for sharing this with us:)

Ingredients

1 Cup Maida (Plain Flour / Self Raising Flour)

3/4 Cup Butter

3/4 Cup Cocoa Powder

1 Tablespoons of Coffee

1 Tablespoon Hot Water

1/2 Cup Sugar

2 Large Eggs

2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract

1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder

1/4 Teaspoon Salt

1/4 Cup Chopped Walnuts (Basically it is 3/4 cup Chopped Walnuts and almond)

1/4 Cup Chocolate Chips

Procedure

Combine Butter and Coco powder in a bowl and placed the bowl in a Microwave only for 1 Minute. Once the butter is melted remove it from the microwave and mix the butter with Cocoa well and see to it there are no lumps. It should be a smooth batter. In a bowl break the eggs and add sugar to it. Use a hand blender and whisk the eggs and sugar together with the blender. Whisk the eggs till the mixture becomes double in size. Combine coffee and hot water and added to the butter and cocoa mixture. Now combine the Egg and sugar mixture with the butter and Cocoa mixture. Add Vanilla extract and mix both the mixture properly. Keep this mixture aside. Now in a big deep bowl, sieve Maida, baking powder and salt together. Now add the dark chocolate combined mixture in the flour. Fold the flour with chocolate mixture and while folding the mixture add chopped walnuts and chocolate chips in between. Remember to fold the mixture in one direction. Preheat the oven to 180 C. Grease the Square baking tray or place a grease proof paper or Butter paper. Pour the batter in the tray. Bake the mixture for about 25 - 30 Minutes or when you pierce the tip of the knife and it comes out clean or there are cracks on the top of the mixture. Serve brownie with vanilla ice cream… a perfect dessert for Christmas eve.

This goes to Sara's Cakes n Cookies Event.

SIZZLING BROWNIES (In Microwave)

Wish u all A Merry Christmas!

The mood of Christmas celebration has already started. Yesterday I was thinking about some nice dessert for Christmas day. I suddenly remember, few months ago in one Marathi recipe show called 'Mejwani', the chef Parag Kanhere had shown 'Sizzling Brownie' . Immediately I opened my notebook and started experimenting it. ( thank god all ingredients were available at home.). Wow and it turned out yummy In just 20 minutes. This is for my 1 year old niece, Aadyaa's first Christmas where she has started eating. She has a sweet tooth (though there are only 3). I am very confident that she will enjoy this brownie very much. So Aadi, this is for u my dear with lots of ' kakal' ( she uses this for sakhar / sugar)……..

Ingredient :

For Brownie

All Purpose flour (Maida) - 1 cup
Cocoa Powder - 1/4 Cup
Powdered sugar - 1 Cup
Baking Powder - 1 Tea spoon
Soda bi -carb - 2 pinch
Milk - 1 cup
Milk Powder - 3/4 cup
Melted Butter - 1 teaspoon
Vanilla essence - 1 teaspoon

For Chocolate Sauce

Water - 1 cup
Cocoa Powder - 1, 1/2 Tea spoon
Powdered Sugar - 1 tea spoon
Drinking Chocolate - 1, 1/2 tea spoon
Butter - 1 tea spoon
Corn starch - 1 tea spoon

Procedure:
For Brownie
Mix all the ingredients of Brownie. Mix it properly to avoid lumps. Blend it for 2 minutes with hand blender. Now Grease Microwave proof tray with butter and dust some all purpose flour on it. Pour the Mixture and set the Microwave on high for 4 minutes 30 seconds.

For Chocolate Sauce
Take water, cocoa Powder, sugar, drinking chocolate, butter in a kadai & mix it properly. Heat it till it started boiling. Now Make a thick paste of corn starch with water & add it to the mixture. Let it boil for a minute and Now the sauce is ready.

For Sizzler
Lightly heat sizzler plate, till it is hot place it on wooden tray.
Pour some of the chocolate sauce over sizzler plate and some fresh cream over. Spread it properly. Now place one piece the brownie . (brownie should be little hot). Place One scoop of vanilla ice-cream on it . Now immediately pour chocolate sauce on it . Now you can hear a proper sizzling sound. Serve it immediately.


I would like to send this recipe to Purva's Christmas Feast Event

And Tasty treat's Santa's Holiday Challenge