Eggless Racing Car Track Cake

Made this cake for my son's 8th birthday. Isn't this an apt cake for boy's 8th birthday??? My son asked me for a racing track cake, after a little google search for the shapes I came up with this. I could make my son and the guests happy with lovely cake.

4 Layer Rainbow Cake - Eggless

Finally!!!! Finally made this rainbow cake. This cake is a great idea for birthdays or any other parties. I call this a No age restriction cake. You can make this cake for a kid's first birthdays or your birthdays , anniversaries etc. Made this cake last weekend. My guests said "Wow..Where did buy this?" "Looking and delicious too" . Such lovely comments always inspire me. 

This cake was in my to do list for very long. I kept on postponing this thinking that it will be a tedious work. But it is not difficult as I expected. It took a lot of time as I have only one round baking pan. I used Icing for the outer cover and in between the layers too but you can use whipped cream in between the layers and icing for the icing for the outer cover. Make the icing with only 1/2 of the quantity in the icing ingredients list.

Ingredients (For Each Cake Layer)

1 cup of Cake Flour

1/2 cup Sugar

1/3 cup Yogurt

1/3 cup Oil

1/2 cup Water

1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence

5-6 teaspoons Food Colour

1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

For Icing

2 cups Baking Margarine 

5 cups Icing Sugar

2 teaspoons Vanilla Essence

1. Mix Cake Flour, Sugar, Yogurt,oil, water and vanilla essence for each cake in a separate bowl. (Ingredients given above are for one cake). Add food colours to each bowl, mix it well.   

2. Preheat oven at 180 degrees. I only have one so I prepared the cake batter ready for all the cakes but added baking powder and baking soda before pouring the batter in the pan. 
3. I kept baking sheet in baking pan so that I use the same pan again for baking all the cakes without cleaning it. Add baking soda and baking powder in a bowl, mix it well and pour the cake batter in baking pan and keep it in the oven.

4.  Bake it for 25- 30 minutes. Do the toothpick test. If the toothpick inserted into the cake till the bottom comes out clean, the cake is ready. Let it cool on a grill. 
5. Follow steps 3 and 4 to bake the other cakes. 

6. Now make the Icing : Use baking margarine at room temperature. Cut that into small pieces, whisk it for 10 minutes till it becomes fluffy. Add icing sugar, whisk it well so that icing sugar completely blends into it( for atleast 10 minutes). Add icing sugar 1 cup at a time. When icing is fluffy and smooth, add vanilla essence and finally whisk it once.

7. The next step is layering the cake. I made a 4 layer cake so started with the blue cake. (For a 7 layer rainbow cake, you have to start with purple.) Remove the baking sheet from blue cake, place it on a serving plate, flat side up. Using a kitchen knife, spread the icing evenly on top of the cake. (Use can use whipped cream in between the layers as I already mentioned).

8. Place the other cakes in order  and spread the icing. Trim the edges of the cake. Spread icing all around the cake . Keep it aside for 10-15 minutes for the icing to set. Now using a clean knife, shape the cake to look neat.

9. Design the cake with the remaining icing and sprinkles .

10. Make any occasion special with this super tempting, super delicious cake. Don't forget this is an EGGLESS CAKE !!!!

Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes / Cup Cakes in Cones - Recipes for Kids

Another easy recipe made by kids during winter holidays is this one. My kids were so bored at home when I asked them to help me to make cupcakes their response was "Oh mummy we don't want cupcakes everytime". But when I told them that this time they are going to make Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes they were very excited. Kids get bored eating the same stuff everytime, my kids are not an exception but because they get to make the same old cupcakes in a different way they liked these.

Ice Cream cone cupcakes is a nice idea for kids parties.  These are easy to make and kids themselves can make these with a little help from elders. They allowed me to show the procedure, keep the cones in oven and to take photos. Thumbs Up.

Recipe is exactly same as 5 Minute Mug Cake Recipe. Try it and make your kids happy.

Ingrendients (Makes 10)

10 Ice Cream Cones

8 tablespoons All Purpose Flour / Maida

2 tablespoons Cocoa Powder

4 1/2 tablespoons Sugar

6 tablespoons Milk

6 tablespoons Oil

1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder

1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Essence

1. Mix all the ingredients. Pour 1 1/2 - 2 tablespoons of batter in each cone.

2. Pre heat the oven at 180 degrees. Fill all the cones and keep them on a grill.

3. Add sprinkles on the top and bake for 15 - 20 minutes or till the tooth pick inserted in ti comes out clean. Allow them to cool for 5 minutes.

4. Isn't it easy to make and a nice idea for parties.

Cupcakes in Colours - Recipes for Kids

  

Do you know who made these cupcakes. My kids. They wanted to make rainbow cupcakes but they felt it is too difficult for them so they tried these Colourful Cupcakes first. My kids took my recipe Chocochip muffins excluded chocochips and added their favorite colours blue and green to it. They allowed me to put the tray in oven. Everything else was done by them.

Ingredients (Makes 12 Cupcakes)

1 1/2 cup Cake Flour 

1 cup Sugar

1/2 cup Oil

1/4 cup Water

1/2 cup Milk

1 teaspoon Baking Powder

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence

5 -6  drops of each Food Colour

1. Mix cake flour, sugar, oil, milk and water in a bowl. Divide the batter to equal parts into 2 bowls. Now add your favorite colours to each bowl. Mix it well.

2. Preheat oven at 180 degrees. Arrange the cupcake papers in the muffin tray. Fill 2/3 of the cupcake paper with batter. Bake it for 18 - 20 minutes or till the toothpick inserted in it comes out clean.

3. Allow them to cool.

Eggless Carrot Cake

Yummy, tasty, moist , soft ..... I have more words to describe this Carrot Cake but are these words not enough to get tempted and give it a try? Must tell you this is the best carrot cake I have ever tasted. 

Carrot Cake was there in my to do list since very long. I made carrot muffins many times but somehow I missed this. When I made it,  the cake got over with in few minutes. There was hardly a small piece left for me. 

These days whenever I make cakes, I am having guests at home. I will happily serve the guests but nothing will be left for me. Situations like these makes you happy and sad at the same time.

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup All  Purpose Flour / Maida

3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons Sugar

1/4 teaspoon Salt

1 teaspoon Baking Soda

1 teaspoon Baking Powder

1 cup Grated Carrot

1/4 cup + 1/8 cup Oil

1/4 cup Milk

1/4 cup Water

1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1. Grate carrot and keep it aside. Pre heat the oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes. Meanwhile in a bowl, add flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Mix it well, keep it aside. In another bowl, add oil, sugar, milk, water and vanilla essence. Mix it well.

2. Now add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients 1/4 at a time and mix it well. Then add grated carrot. Fold it into the mixture. Don't over mix after adding carrot. Grease a baking pan with oil or butter. Pour the mixture in that. Bake it for 30 -35 minutes.

3. Finally sprinkle icing sugar over it.

Eggless Brownies

This is the best eggless brownie recipe ever. I have been thinking of trying and making 

this since many days but kept on postponing this as I didn't have the recipe for this. Finally got the recipe made some changes and came out delicious.

Ingredients

1 1/4 cup Flour

1/3 Cocoa Powder

3/4 cup Sugar

1/4 cup Melted Butter

1/2 cup Milk

1/2 cup Yogurt

1 1/2 tablespoon Mixed Fruit Jam

1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Essence

3/4 teaspoon Baking Powder

1. Mix flour, and cocoa powder in a bowl.

2. Mix sugar and melted butter in another bowl. Add vanilla essence,yogurt,milk, mixed fruit jam. Mix all these well.

3. Pre heat oven at 180 degrees. Now add baking powder to flour and cocoa powder and then the wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Mix all these for 5 mins. 

4. Pour this whole mixture into a greased baking tray. I don't have a rectangular baking tray so I baked it in a circular tray. Bake it for about 35 mins or till the bottom is baked properly. Remove it from oven, cool it for 10 mins. Turn it upside down and cut it into desired shapes.

5. Enjoy

Baklava

Baklava is a rich middle east sweet dessert layered with Phyllo sheets and filled mixed nuts and honey.

I bought and tasted Baklava for the first time in Dubai airport. We got addicted to these. My husband who is a frequent traveler to Dubai always brings these for us .

I have been thinking of trying this at home since so many months and finally I did. You can make the filling with nuts like Walnuts, Pistachios, Cashews, Almonds etc. I just added cashews and almonds one cup each. It tasted so good. You can add 2 cups of mixed nuts.

Try it. You will love it .

Ingredients

1 cup Almonds

1 cup Cashew nuts

1 teaspoon Cinnamon Powder / 1 small Cinnamon Stick

1/2 teaspoon ground Cloves / 2 Cloves

1/2 cup melted Butter

1/4 cup Honey

1/4 cup Sugar

Directions

1. Take Phyllo sheets out from freezer, leave them at room temperature for 25 -30 minutes. Cut 10 pyhllo sheets to 30 cm X 15 cm rectangle. Filling which I made is just enough for this size sheets. Make coarse powder of Cashews and Almonds, Cinnamon stick and cloves. If you have cinnamon and clove powders at home , directly add these to the cashew and almond powder instead of adding stick and cloves. 

2. Take the powder into a bowl, add sugar, honey and butter. Mix all these well. This is your filling. Pre- heat the oven at 180 degrees. Brush the baking sheet with butter and place 5 sheets of phyllo sheets on top of each other. Spread the filling all over the sheets evenly. Now place 2 sheets, brush it with butter all over, and place 2 more sheets, brush these with butter again. Finally place the last sheet, pour 2 teaspoons of honey on it and spread it evenly.

3. Now cut the sheets into squares or diamonds with a sharp knife till the bottom of baklava (I forgot to do this so I did this after baking). Bake them for 30 - 35 minutes or until golden and crisp at the top. 

4. Heavenly, Yummy dessert for you.

Pinwheel Cookies

 

Made these cookies during these Christmas holidays. These fun cookies with chocolate and vanilla swirls are fun to make. These are delicious and perfect for Christmas parties. Though the rolling is a bit difficult, it is worth making these for a nice treat. You can also pack for lunch box.

Ingredients

2 cups All Purpose Flour / Maida

1/2 cup  Cocoa Powder

1/2 cup Powdered Sugar

1  cup + 2 tablespoon Unsalted Butter 

2 teaspoon Vanilla Essence

1/2 teaspoon Salt 

Directions

1. In a bowl add vanilla essence to flour and mix it well. Whisk 1 cup of butter at room temperature. Add powdered sugar mix it well. No need to salt salt if you are using salted butter. Now add flour 1 cup at a time and knead it well.

2. Divide the dough into 2 portions, one slightly bigger than the other.  In another bowl whisk 2 tablespoons of butter at room temperature then add cocoa powder. Mix these well.

3. Now add the small ball of dough to this and mix it. Now wrap these vanilla and chocolate dough balls in plastic wrap keep it in refrigerator for 30 minutes.

4. Take them the dough balls out and roll the vanilla dough on a wax paper( or on foil ) into a rectangle. Do the same for chocolate dough. Flip the rolled chocolate dough onto vanilla dough, peel the wax paper (foil) off. Cut the edges. Use these cut edges to make marble cookies (Step 6).Now gently roll the dough so that both the layers are adhered.

5. Now the tough part. Gently and tightly roll the sheets from one side like a log. While rolling use the foil or wax paper press the log to get proper shape. Cut the log into 1/4 inch thick slices. Preheat the oven for 5 minutes at 160 degrees . Place a baking sheet on baking tray and then place these cookies on the tray. Bake them for 10 minutes.

6. We are left with some pieces of vanilla and chocolate dough after cutting the rectangle sheets. Make a dough ball with that. Take small portions, place on baking tray, press them down and bake them for 10 minutes. You also made marble cookies now.

7. Store them at room temperature in a cookie jar or airtight container if they are any left.
   Good thing about making cookies is after rolling the dough into log you can freeze them and whenever you are ready to bake , take them out of freezer slice them and bake. Enjoy your parties with these delicious cookies.