Thursday 8 January 2015

vanilla cake

VANILLA CAKE
Hi friends,
Today I m sharing you a wonderful recipe that you surely enjoy in your home. I received lots of request from my friends to bring a cake whenever I m going to meet them. I m sure when u bake this cake your relatives and friends will definitely compliment you to bake this cake. As it is microwave version it is easy to bake in a few minutes. Enjoy this microwave cake in your home and please give me your wonderful feedbacks. Enjoy this cake with your family and friends.

INGREDIENTS
·         11/2cup                maida
·         1cup                      whole milk
·         3/4cup                  sugar    
·         3tbsp                     cornflour
·         1/2tsp                   baking powder
·         1/4tsp                   baking soda
·         1tbsp                     lime juice
·         1/2tsp                   vanilla essence
·         3tbsp                     oil
METHOD
1.       Seive flour,  cornflour and baking powder.
2.       Mix sugar and milk in a bowl until sugar dissolve.
3.       Add vanilla essence and oil in milk and sugar mixture and mix well.
4.       Add flour mix in a milk mix spoon by spoon and mix well until a smooth batter is prepared.
5.       In a bowl mix lime juice and baking soda and quickly mix this in cake batter.
6.       Put this cake batter in a greased cake tin of around 7-8”.
7.       Bake in a microwave at 100 power for 6 min.
8.       Check it with a tooth pick and it comes out clean.
9.       This cake looks completely white as compared to oven bake cake.
10.   Let it cool for another 5 min on cooling rack.

11.   Enjoy this cake with your favourite toppings.

Sunday 4 January 2015

SPICED FRUIT AND NUT MUFFINS

SPICED FRUIT AND NUT MUFFINS
INGREDIENTS
·         1 1/2CUPS                           flour
·         1/4tsp                                   cinnamon powder
·         1/4tsp                                   nutmeg
·         1/4tsp                                   ginger powder
·         3/4cup                                  powdered sugar
·         1/2cup or 100gms                yellow butter
·         1/2cup                                  milk
·         1 ½ tbsp                               vinegar
·         1/2tsp                                   baking powder
·         1/2tsp                                   soda-by-carb
·         1tsp                                       vanilla essence
·         1/2cup                                  kaju,badam,mixed cherries,walnut(rolled in 1tbsp maida)
·         1/2 tsp                                  yellow food colouring
METHOD
1.       Preheat oven at 180C.
2.       Grease muffin moulds with some butter or oil.
3.       Sift flour, mixed spice, baking powder three times.
4.       Cream butter and suger until sugar dissolve and becomes fluffy.  Butter and sugar mixture turn white in color or in pale yellow.
5.       Rub flour mix with creamed butter. Its look in crumbly texture.
6.       Mix vanilla essence and yellow color in crumble mix.
7.       Divide milk into two parts. To one part which is at room temperature, add vinegar.
8.       Warm the other part of milk slightly and add soda-bi-carb. Now mix both the milks together.
9.       The milk will start foaming (bubbles appear). Mix quickly in cake mix very weel.
10.   Add chopped dryfrits nad cherries on cake batter.
11.   Fill all muffin moulds with cake batter. Sprinkle some more dry fruits on every muffins.
12.   Bake in preheated oven at 180C for 20 min, then lower the temperature to 150C for another 20 min.
13.   When the muffins are done, let it cool for 10 min before removing from the moulds.

14.   Around 12 muffins are prepared from this receipe.