It is a very simple and easy cake. You can use it as a sponge or eat it like a tea cake. Tutti frutti and choco chips are optional . It comes out soft and melts in mouth. In my house this doesnot last more than a day.
Ingredients
1½ cup All Purpose Flour/Maida
¾ th cup Sugar
½ tsp Baking Soda
1¼ tsp Baking Powder
Salt a pinch
½ cup Yogurt | Curd
½ cup Milk
½ cup Oil
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Steps
Sift dry ingredients 2 times to help the air the batter
Mix yogurt. Sugar, oil , curd and vanilla
Add slowly the dry ingredients and mix with soft hands
Simultaneously keep adding milk the batter to make it in falling consistency
Bake in Preheated oven 180 degree for 35 to 40 min or toothpick comes out clean
Note
You can add titi frooti or chocochip to make it interesting
Are you tired of eating the same chocolate cake? Well with this 4 ingredient cake you can make Lotus Biscoff cake in less than 30 mins.This can also be made with any kind of biscuit.This is a quick and easy way to end your sugar desires.
Ingredients
Two Hundred and Fifty grams – Lotus Biscoff biscuits or any kind of biscuits
This cake brought back some old memories as I made this simple cold cake for my mother when I was twelve years old. It is fireless cooking and young kids can make it.
My daughter chanced upon this recipe in old diaries that I have where I scribble recipes. She decided to make the same cake for me on Mother’s Day ..I guess what they say is true ‘the legacy continues…
Pl note the ingredients are approximate and will depend on size and your taste. You can keep tasting it along the way
Ingredients
Hundred to two hundred grams Softened butter (Amul)
Two to three tablespoons of Drinking chocolate
Twenty Glucose biscuits
Five to seven tablespoons Icing sugar/castor sugar(or grind regular sugar into a powder and use it then)
Cold milk to dip biscuits
Drop a vanilla essence
Method
Mix the butter,sugar,chocolate till fluffy with beater
Diphe glucose biscuits in cold milk and put them in the bottom of a tray/dish, Pl put some icing on the tray before you place the biscuits
Add some of the cream on top of the biscuits
Keep layering till you run out of cream
At last decorate the top however you liked
Keep in the fridge till set
And enjoy it cold!!
If you have leftover icing,you can use it to decorate some cupcakes. It is like butter cream icing. It may not hold too long outside the fridge so keep putting it back . This is a very good way to bond with your kids and do this together as a mother day activity. You can experiment with flavors by skipping chocolate, adding jam or different essences or colors.
Akanksha , my daughter likes to make quick mug micro cakes . I discovered this quick and easy recipe which I modified to her taste. It is very simple and easy even the kids can make.
Ingredients
Four Tablespoon ragi flour
One Tablespoon Almond flour ( this helps to cut bitterness but u can increase one tablespoon of Ragi flour if u like the taste or you do not have Almond flour)
Three Tablespoon brown sugar/jaggery powder
One Tablespoon of cocoa powder
One fourth Teaspoon baking soda
One fourth cup milk
Two tablespoon Oil
Half teaspoon vanilla extract
Dark chocolate melted or Ganache for decoration (optional)
Method
Take a big mug or small size bowl of borosil.
Add the Dry ingredients in the bowl.
Then add wet ingredients and mix well.
Adjust the consistency by adding more milk.
Put it in the microwave for two to two and half minutes.
Let the cake cool in the microwave for another minute before you take it.
Once it’s cooled, top it with any kind of your favorite melted chocolate and sprinkles.
Then ENJOY!
It is a quick healthy fix for sweet craving and easy to make. The best part is that it is gluten free and delicious.
You could replace the almond flour with whole wheat flour also. It comes out fairly decent.
You could also refer to the Regular Ragi Chocolate Cake already in the blog for making a regular standard cake ( pl give the link)
Since everyone loves cakes and are open to trying new recipes, here we go with another Whole Wheat Cake with Orange which is a healthy cake for all fitness freaks and gives added Vitamin- C.
Recipe:– This recipe will give a cake of approximately 475 gm and give the best result with fresh oranges. As you all know I am a believer of making cooking simple so this is also one pot recipe with no beater and is eggless. I have not tried this with eggs at all. I felt eggs would overpower the orange flavour.
Ingredients
one cup Whole Wheat flour
one tablespoon Corn flour
half teaspoon Baking soda
half teaspoon Baking powder
one pinch Salt
half cup cup Castor Sugar
1/4 cup Cooking oil (can not be replaced with butter)
one cup or 200 ml Fresh orange juice or Tetra pack one
one teaspoon Orange zest or ½ tsp orange essence or 1 tbsp marmalade
Methods
Preheat your oven to 180 degree C.
Sieve the dry ingredients- whole wheat flour corn flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda and keep aside. Sieving is very important for airing the mixture
In a bowl take the wet ingredients- castor sugar, oil and orange juice. Beat well with Hand.
Add Orange Zest/ Essence
Now add the sieved flour mixture and mix softly in cut and fold in one direction
Mix everything very well with a spatula and check there should be no lumps in the cake batter
Pour the batter in a lined or greased cake tin of about 6 inches.
Bake in a preheated oven for 180 degrees C for 30-35 minutes or till the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool the cake before cutting slices
After all that hard work, treat yourself with a big slice of the decadent cake with tea or coffee.I PROMISE eating a big ol’ slice will be worth it!!
P.S. add some chocolate chips to attract kids,trust me it works all the time… 😉
This recipe holds a lot of nostalgia, passed down from my mom, who insisted on feeding my kids healthy. It’s a simple one-pot recipe, no fancy equipment needed.
Ingredients
1 Cup Oil (not to be replaced with butter or ghee)
2 Cup Whole wheat flour
3 Cup Red Grated Carrot ( preferred Red winter)
2 Cup Sugar
4 Eggs Or replace with 1 cup to 1 cup and ¼ cup milk
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Baking soda
1 tsp Garam masala
Walnuts and almonds for garnishing
Method
Put all the ingredients and mix with hand.
Pl note donot use any beater or spoon as it will break due to thickness in the batter
If using eggs beat them slightly with fork and add to mixture
Bake in pre heated oven for 40- 45 min at 200 degree Celsius. Time may vary esp. for eggless one as it take time. Tooth pick should come out clean
Pl note the recipe is for 1kg cake
Points to remember
I donot recommend using this with orange carrot but if doing pl use All purpose and Whole wheat – 1 cup each and sugar cannot be reduced
Batter has be to falling in lumps and not a flowy one You need to be extra careful on eggless batter that u donot overmix or add extra milk otherwise cake will get brunt feeling. Pl add slowly the quantity of milk. It can vary due to the quality of whole wheat also.
Happy Cooking and Build the Mom and Kids bond.
It’s joy of cooking with kids and making memories with laughter and warmth of the bonds been built that motivates me to do stuff with them
Having lived and worked a decade down south, as a family we all have developed a taste for Ragi. 15 years back Ragi was not so much known in North India but more used in South for their regular eating. Our cook in Bangalore used to make amazing Ragi dosa, kheer and other stuff. Then as we moved to Delhi the kids choices changed and they had also moved to become teenagers. Chocolate is their favourite choice and so I decided to experiment with Ragi and Whole wheat chocolate cake. Tried many recipes and came out with this version.
It turns out yum, initially I did not tell the kids but now they love it so much that they demand it. No guesses here the mother will be very happy.
This recipe makes about a 500 gm cake and you will need 7-8 inch pan
Ingredients
Ragi Flour- ¾ cup
Whole wheat flour/All-purpose flour – ¾ cup
Coco powder- 2 tbsp (Could be replaced with drinking chocolate/Bournvita)
Oil- 2/3 rd cup ( one could use butter but I prefer oil)
Curd- 1/3rd cup
Milk- ¾ cup
Sugar- 1 cup (you could use normal sugar, brown sugar or jaggery)
Vinegar- ½ tsp
Vanilla essence- 1 tbsp
Baking powder-1 tsp
Baking soda-½ tsp
Salt- 1/8 tsp
Method
Sieve the dry ingredients Ragi, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt together. Please do this step 2-3 times to ensure you incorporate air in the mix.
Mix sugar with dry ingredients
Mix the wet ingredients in different bowl – Oil, Milk, Vinegar, essence and curd. Please whisk the curd before mixing with the other ingredients.
Now slowly pour this in to dry ingredients bowl which has sugar. Mix lightly with hand as you do not want air which has been incorporated in flour should be lost.
Once mixed please pour in greased tin and bake in Pre heated oven for 25-30 min at 180 degree. Skewer should come out clean once inserted.
Remove from oven and cool.
One could do little chocolate frosting by adding molten chocolate or any other frosting over it . It tastes yum either ways. I have tried replacing curd with egg but it does not come out that well so would suggest stick to curd for this.
Brownies – the name itself gives so much happiness. It is every chocolate lover’s favourite. Lot of people have been asking for this recipe. It is very easy to make, you just need to follow the right temperature of ingredients and baking time. You will get the amazing crinkled top.
Ingredients
Butter 115 gm- cut in cubes
Dark chocolate (preferably compound) 125 gm/1 cup
Castor sugar 1 cup
2 eggs- room temperature
Flour/All purpose flour/Maida – ¾ cup
Cocoa powder – 1 tbsp
Vanilla essence -1 tsp
Method
Pre heat the oven at 160 degree.
Take an 8-inch brownie pan. You need to line it with parchment paper or aluminium foil. Cross the paper and it should be hanging out. It needs only to be greased with oil
Melt the chocolate and butter by double boiler method. Chocolate should be grated or cut in small pieces and butter in cube sizes.
Remove from heat and whisk the sugar. By doing this you are lowering the temperature
Add eggs and essence.
Stir in flour and cocoa powder
Bake in Preheated oven for 25 min to 30min at 160 degree. Inserted toothpick to check may have moist crumbs as toothpick will not come out clean due to chocolate
Take out the brownie along with paper/foil and let it cool for 3 to4 hours. Remove the paper and then cut the slices.
Enjoy the brownie.
Tips- Paper should be hanging outside enough so that you can take the brownie out easily from the tin. Let it cool completely before you remove paper and cut.
