Coconut Cake

Its been 3 years since I have started this blog. There is growth in my cooking and my food photography too. I still click the photos with my mobile. The more you cook the more you learn. I get inspiration to cook new things from facebook food groups and many other food blogs.

Ingredients :
All Purpose Flour : 1 and 1/4 cup
Coconut Oil : 1/2 cup
Dried Coconut Powder : 3/4 cup
Curd : 1/2 cup
Milk : 1 cup
Baking Powder : 1 tsp
Baking Soda : 1/2 tsp
Vanilla Essence : 1 tsp
Granulated Sugar : 1 cup

Procedure :
1. Preheat oven to 350 degree faranheit.
2. Mix flour, baking powder and baking soda in a bowl.
3. MIx together oil, sugar, curd, vanilla essence and milk with a beater at medium speed.
4. Now add the all purpose flour in the wet mixture.
5. Fold it the coconut flakes and beat for another 20 seconds with the beater.
6. Pour the batter in a 9x5 bread tin. You can alternately pour it in a cake tray.
7. Bake it for 20 minutes. The top bakes pretty quickly.
8. Cover it with a foil and bake furthur for another 20 minutes. (It took me nearly 40 minutes to bake the cake overall).

2 min Coffee Microwave Cake

What do you do when you get hungry at 12 at night? The pantry empty. With a few basic baking ingredients here is a Coffee cake. A 2 in 1 delight. It almost takes as much time as it takes to make the cake. I made this cake in my cereal bowl. This is an eggless cake.

Ingredients:
All Purpose Flour : 1/2 cup
Sugar : 1/4 cup
Baking Powder : a pinch (1/8th tsp)
Instant Coffee Powder : 2 tsp

Milk : 5 Tbsp
Vanilla Extract : 1/4 tsp
Oil : 1/4 cup

Procedure:
1. Mix well all the dry ingredients.
2. Finally add the wet ingredients and mix well.
3. Microwave for 2 min.

Your cake is ready. Relish with Ice cream. 

Mawa Pistachio Cake

I prepared this cake for our 4th engagement anniversary. I love experimenting with mawa. I was happy visually about the cake. But when the cake was not warm I could feel the smell of was overpowering. So the next time I make it I would probably add 1 egg.

Ingredients :

All Purpose Flour : 1 and 1/4 cup

Baking Powder : 1/2 tsp

Green Cardamom Powder : 1/4 tsp

Salt : a pinch

Mawa : 1/2 cup (softened)

Butter : 7 tbsp

Sugar : 1 cup

Eggs : 2 ( Or 1 and increase the milk )

Milk : 6 tbsp

Saffron : 1 tsp

Pistachio : 1/2 cup

Almonds/ Pistachio : for garnishing (I used almonds but you can substitute with Pistachio)

Procedure :

1. Bring the eggs, mawa and butter to room temperature.

2. Heat up the milk for 10-20 seconds in microwave add the saffron strands and let them soak. 

3. Mix the flour, baking soda, salt and cardamom powder. 

4. In another bowl mix the butter, sugar and mawa till it turns slightly brown in color. 

5. Once the mawa mixture turns creamy add the eggs and beat for 2 more minutes.

6. Now add the milk saffron mixture and beat it on low speed for 2 minutes. 

7. Add the mixed flour beat on medium speed to make it smooth and creamy batter. Fold in the pistachio with the batter 

8. Pour the batter in a greased cake pan and garnish with pistachio/almonds.

9. Bake them for 22-25 minutes at 350 F. Check once with toothpick if not bake for another 5 minutes until the toothpick comes clean.