Eggless dates cake

Ingredients:
All purpose flour(Maida) - 1.5 cup
Seedless dates - 20
Baking powder - 1 spoon
Salt - 1/4 spoon
Milk - 1 cup
Sugar you can adjust with as per dates sweetness
Vanilla extract - 1/2 spoon
Chocolate chips - 1/4 cup
Butter - 1/4 cup

Procedure:
Coarsely grind the dates and sugar with little milk.
Sift together flour, salt and baking soda.
In the flour mix add dates mixture, remaining milk, vanilla extract, chocolate chips and butter. Mix well to form a uniform dough.
Keep the dough aside for 10 mins. Until then preheat the oven for 10mins at 180 ºC.
Grease the cake tray with butter and pour the mixture into it.
Bake the cake for 15-20 mins. Or you can check if the cake is done or not by inserting a toothpick.
If the toothpick comes clean the cake is done and you can remove it from oven.

Same dates cake recipe was prepared for Nandita's last year birthday and Chaitra's this year birthday :)

Eggless chocolate cake

Ingredients:
All purpose flour(Maida) - 1.5 cup
Cocoa powder - 3 spoons
Baking soda - 1 spoon
Salt - 1/4 spoon
Water - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Vanilla extract - 1/2 spoon
Vinegar - 1 spoon
Oil or butter - 1/4 cup

Procedure:
Take a bowl and mix water, sugar, oil or butter, vanilla and vinegar till the sugar completely dissolves.
Sift together flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda.
Add the flour mix to the liquid mixture one table spoon at a time. Mix well to form a uniform dough.
Keep the dough aside for 10 mins. Until then preheat the oven for 10mins at 180 ºC.
Grease the cake tray with butter and pour the mixture into it.
Bake the cake for 15-20 mins. Or you can check if the cake is done or not by inserting a toothpick.
If the toothpick comes clean the cake is done and you can remove it from oven.

I prepared this cake on Nandita's birthday 2011. Chaitra thanks a lot for the recipe :)

Chocolate muffins

Last recipe prepared by my student Nandita and instructed by me at Finland ;) Sorry Nandita for the late update due to my vacation. Hope you are happy now :)

Ingredients:
Refined flour (maida) - 2 cups
Cocoa powder - 3-4 spoons
Baking powder - 2 spoons
Salt a pinch
Butter - 250 grams
Powdered sugar - 250 grams
Eggs - 4
Cashews - 5-10

Procedure:
Preheat oven to 180 ºC. Grease muffin moulds.
Take a bowl and add refined flour with cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
Mix together melted butter with sugar and beat well with a wire whisk or beater till light and fluffy.
Mix in one egg at a time and whisk thoroughly.
Pour batter into prepared muffin moulds, filling them only two thirds.
Bake at 180 º C for thirty five to forty minutes.
Once done remove from oven and garnish with cashews.

Strawberry cake

I am very glad to add this post :) I don't believe its my 100th post in my blog!! For this 100th post I thought that I should prepare something special which is very new in my blog and memorable one. As I never posted any cake recipes yet in my blog so thought of preparing a cake. And I would like to dedicate this post to my beloved husband :)
I wouldn't have started this blog without my husband's encouragement and guidance. This post is for you my love :)

Ingredients:
All purpose flour - 1 1/4 cups
Baking powder - 1.5 spoon
Sugar - 1.5 cup
Eggs - 5 large eggs (2 whole and 3 separated)
Unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly - 6 spoons
Strawberries (washed,dried and stemmed) - 500 gms
Water - 2 spoons
Vanilla extract - 3 spoons
15-20 washed, dried, and stemmed
Whipping cream - 2 cups
Salt

Procedure:
Take a large bowl add flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Whisk in 2 whole eggs and 3 yolks (reserving whites), butter, water, and vanilla. Whisk until smooth.
Beat remaining 3 egg whites and slowly add 3 tablespoons of sugar, beat until soft peaks form.

Now slowly add the above mixture to the cake batter until no white streaks remain.
Preheat the oven for 250 degrees for 15mins.
Pour batter into prepared pan and bake until toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean, 20 - 30minutes.
Once cake is done remove from oven and allow it to cool.

Take the whipping cream in mixy jar add little sugar, vanilla extract and whip until nice cream is formed.
Remove from jar and refrigerate it for 10-15 mins.
Now keep 10-15 berries aside.
Heat a pan and the remaining berries into the pan. Cook until they are soft and later add 2-3 spoons of sugar depending in the sweetness of berries.
Once the berries become too soft remove from heat and allow it for cooling.
Cut the cake into two thin slices. Keep one slice on the plate.
Now cut the strawberries into half. Arrange the strawberries around the edges of the cake.
Add the strawberry mixture in the center.

On top of the this mixture add the whipped cream and place the second slice of the cake.
And arrange in the same way as instructed above.
Once the icing is done refrigerate for 20-30 mins and then serve it.

For you :D