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. 

Apricot Cookies (Eggless)

I had bought a lot of apricot's from Costco. I was hoping to make Khubani ka Meetha actually. But for making Khubani you need another kind of Apricot which are dark brown in color. Never the less the Khubani tasted more like Apricot halwa.

I came across this recipe in Sinfully Spicy Blog.

Ingredients :
Butter : 1/2 cup (Keep out the butter so that it is very soft)
Sugar : 1/2 cup
Cinnamon Powder : 1/4 tsp
Salt : 1/8 tsp
Chickpea Flour/ Besan : 2/3 cup
All Purpose Flour/ Maida : 1/4 cup
Dried Apricots : 1/2 cup (Chopped into pieces)
Slivered Almonds : for Garnishing (Optional)
Baking Soda : 1/8 tsp

Procedure :
1. Preheat oven to 375 degree faranheit.
2. Sift all purpose flour, Chickpea flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
3. In another bowl whisk butter and sugar together (do not make it too fluffy).
4. Fold the sifted flour into butter and sugar mixture.
5. Divide the portion into gooseberry shaped balls and spread them on a cookie sheet.Garnish with silvered almonds if you prefer). Keep a little space between the cookies as it expands a little on cooking.
6. Bake the cookies for 10-15 minutes till they become slightly brown in color.