Eggless Orange Rainbow Cake

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baked this cake for father's day. This was my daughter Ishani's choice. She wanted me to bake only rainbow cake for dad. Need not to say that she is a huge fan of rainbow.

Ingredients

All purpose Flour - 1 1/2 cup

Baking Soda - 1 tsp

Baking Powder - 1 tsp

Melted butter - 1/2 cup

Condensed milk - 400 gm tin

Fanta 0r Orangeade - 1/2 cup

Orange essence - 1 tsp

Method

In a big mixing bowl sieve together

                                             All purpose flour

                                             Baking Soda

                                             Baking powder

In another mixing bowl beat together

                                             Melted butter

                                             Condensed milk

Add Sieved mixture to the butter and condensed milk mixture. Mix well. To this mixture add orange drink by cutting and folding. 

Divide the mixture into 7 equal portions. Add one food colours into each. I've added red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and pink. Preheat the oven at 400 F. Grease the cake pan. I've used 8" round pan.

Now comes the assemble of the cake. Pour a heaped tablespoon of one colour in the center of the pan and allow it to spread a little. Pour another colour batter in the center now and wait for a minute to spread. Keep doing it until all the batter is used.

Use toothpick to make a design .  Put it in the oven for around 40 mins.  Insert a toothpick in the center and if it comes out clean the cake is done.

I covered this cake with chocolate Ganache.

To make Chocolate Ganache

8 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate - chopped into pieces

3/4 cup heavy whipping cream

Place the chopped chocolate in a big steel or glasss bowl. Heat heavy cream on medium high until it comes to a boil. Remove from heat and immediately pour cream over chocolate and stir until completely mixed and glossy.  Allow the ganache to cool before pouring on the cake.  The longer you allow the ganache to cool, the thicker it will set.

The kids tried to lick it. You can see it in this picture.

Eggless apple banana cake

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made this cake recently. Ripe banana in the kitchen inspired me to bake that day.I've chosen  this recipe  and it always come out very good. This is the best use of ripe banana.

Ingredients
Wheat flour - 1 cup
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Banana - 1/2 cup
Yogurt - 3/4 cup
Coco powder - 1/4 cup
Apple cubes - 2tbsp
Pecan chopped - 3 tbsp
Raisins - 3 tbsp
Sugar - 3/4 cups
Butter - 4 tbsp
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Method:
Preheat the oven at 350 F. Sieve all the dry ingredients. Add banana, yogurt, butter and vanilla essence. Mix well. Add apple and nuts. Mix thoroughly. Grease and flour the pan. Pour the mixture in the prepared pan and put it in the oven for around 40 mins or until done.  I used a small heart shaped pan and a bread loaf pan for this. The bread loaf pan was not fully filled.

This cake is off to Sri's Healing foods event hosted by Krithi and Nevideta's Celebrate Sweets hosted by Sonia

Eggless Custard and Jam Cookies

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oday I promised my daughter for a play date with her friend but could not make it, the result was a upset kid at home, which I don't like. To make her happy I proposed to bake cookies........she was very excited because I was allowing her help in cooking. She wanted to bake chocolate cookies.....alas the pantry was out of coco powder. After much discussion, we settled for jam cookies. I googled for a nice recipe and followed it but that was also a disaster. It was asking for more butter than required so the result was a flat and burnt cookies. Finally I added some custard powder to the remaining cookie dough and came up with these mouthwatering cookies.

Ingredients

All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cup

Mango custard - 1/2 cup

Powder sugar - 1/2 cup

Cardamom powder - 3/4 tsp

Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Butter - 1/2 cup melted

Curd - 2 tbsp

Jam - the flavour you like

Method

Preheat oven at 375 f. Mix all the ingredients together and make a dough. Make a small ball and press it between your palms. Make a shallow dent in the cookies. I've used a lid of a bottle, You can use your thumb too. Add little jam in the dent and arrange in lightly greased baking sheet. Put them in the oven for around 13 mins. The colour of the cookies will slightly change when they are done. Allow them to cool on wire rack for 10 mins.