…shrink & will not rise well. Insert a toothpick in the centre of the cake to check if the cake is ready. It should come out clean when ready. Remove from the oven. Let it rest for a few minutes & then invert the cake onto a plate. Invert again & place on a cooling rack. Let it cool completely. Slice the Zebra Cake in wedges & serve it preferably plain. Decorate with icing or sift some confectioner’s sugar before sl…
…e you consume them within a week. Just relish and savor the beautiful Vati Cake / Butter Cake Tarts with a glass of warm milk or a hot cup of tea, if you please. 🙂 Ingredients: 250 gm sifted; Maida / All-purpose Flour 150 gm Butter (cut into small pieces) ¼ tsp Salt 70 gm Caster Sugar 2 Eggs For the Vati / Tart Pastry: Combine all the above mentioned dry ingredients in a sufficiently large bowl. Use your fingers or a food processor to rub pieces o…
…temp.) 1 tsp. Vanilla Essence ½ cup Dark Chocolate Chips 1 cup mashed ripe Bananas (2 large Bananas) Method : Pre-heat the oven at 180C. Line a 12 cup muffin pan with liners or you may use paper ice-cream cups like I did. Peel the bananas & mash them to a puree with your hands or with an electric mixer/blender & keep aside for later use. In a large mixing bowl, add the flour, sugar, baking pwd., baking soda & salt & combine well. I…
…are done & the center is still molten & oozing. This richly dense chocolate cake is delicious… It is very easy & quick to prepare & bakes within a few minutes. It is ideal for a great dinner party when you want to serve something a little special. It is important to serve it warm because when you cut through the cake, the chocolate just spills through! It is excellent served with a dollop of whipped cream or your favorite ice-crea…
…ulp 2 tbsps. Cocoa pwd. (make a paste with milk) Procedure: Grease a bundt cake pan or any cake pan of your choice with butter and lightly dust with flour. Combine and sift maida and baking powder. Set aside. In a sufficiently large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add one egg at a time and beat well after each addition. Add milk and lime juice and mix with a wooden spatula or spoon. Add few tablespoons of flour at a time and f…
…medium & continue beating till the batter is smooth. Pre-heat the oven to 180C. Divide the batter in the prepared cupcake moulds or any variety of cake moulds or in cake tins. Bake for 20-25 mins. if using cake tins & for 12-15 mins. if using cupcake moulds/muffin tins. The top of the cakes/cupcakes should be lightly golden & a toothpick inserted in the centre should come out clean. Do not overbake or the cake will be dry. It is better…
…ind… to eat healthy we steam our food in banana leaves & cook with raw bananas. The banana fruit, flowers, stem, leaves & the entire plant is especially used in Indian cooking, rituals & religious functions. How can we ignore or look down upon it when it gives us so much? Mankind should seriously give it a rightful place & feel proud to see it in their fruit basket, place it on the dining table & serve it with love to their fam…
…chocolate pieces into a heavy bottomed saucepan and gently heat until the chocolate has melted. Bring the temperature of the chocolate milk to lukewarm. Stir in whisked eggs, sugar and vanilla essence into the chocolate milk to dissolve the sugar and pour over the bread. Leave to soak for 10 minutes. Gently push the bread down into the custard. Mix together the brown sugar and cinnamon powder and sprinkle over the top of the pudding. Place the di…
…ake in a pre-heated oven at 150C for an hour. To avoid overbrowning of the cake; cover the top of the cake with a piece of foil. After baking, do not remove the cake out immediately but leave the door of the oven slightly ajar for about 8-10 minutes. Wear oven mittens and then remove the cake pan from the oven and immediately tap on the kitchen table. Unmould immediately onto a baking sheet or a sufficiently large plate. Peel off the parchment com…
…Goan Christmas Cake. It is a rich & moist semolina/rawa & coconut cake. I remember the times my grandmother used to make this cake in a traditional clay oven which we had bought in the Mapusa market in Goa way back in the early 70s. Throughout our journey by bus from Goa to Pune we had to handle the clay oven with great care. We had wrapped it with lots of cloth & there was a big fuss about its safety. I never understood then, the imp…