Chickpea Sundal / Channa Sundal

Dussera Navaratri are from 13th - 21st October this year. During these days South Indians mostly make Sundals and other desserts as offerings to Lord Durga in 9 avatars for 9 days. 

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.

Rice Cakes with Nutella and Banana- Kids Recipes

Nutella is becoming kid's most favourite thing these days. They are asking me to make Nutella Rice cakes, Nutella Sandwiches, Nutella bread sticks, Nutella popsicles the list is endless. They want everything with Nutella. Here is one of those easy peesy crunchy snack for the them. 

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 !!!!

Chocolate Spoons - Kid's Recipes

These chocolate spoons are easy to make and a perfect idea for kids parties. You can pack and gift these delicious spoons. Add sprinkles of your choice or according to the party colour and theme. Make birthday parties more interesting.  

Things you need

Spoons Plastic or Silver

Plain Chocolate bars 

Butter 

Sprinkles

1. Break chocolate bars to pieces. Place the end of spoons at an angle (I placed them on a small notebook) so that the spoon is in level. 

2. Add butter. A teaspoon of butter will be enough for each bar of chocolate. Butter gives a nice shine to chocolate. Melt chocolate in a double boiler or in microwave. Stir and heat the chocolate till the chocolate is almost melt but not completely. Remove it from heat. 

3. Pour melted chocolate into spoons and quickly add sprinkles to each spoon before the chocolate hardens.
   
   
4. Allow it to set for about 15 - 20 minutes.

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.

Paneer (Indian Cottage Cheese) Tikka in oven

Paneer Tikka is a good starter and snack. Paneer (Indian Cottage Cheese) is marinated in with curd and indian spices and then grilled. You can easily make this at home. With this oven method recipe you can make paneer tikka in bulk for parties.

There is no green bell pepper in my paneer tikka recipe because of my daughter. She doesn't like it and exchanges that with paneer pieces. Whenever we order this in restaurants we both are always finally left with vegetable pieces.   So I started making these at home without green bell pepper.  Problem solved. 

Enjoy your winter, rainy days with hot Paneer Tikka. Serve it with Green chutney and 

Sweet Chutney.

Ingredients

12 1" Paneer Cubes / Indian Cottage Cheese

1 Yellow Bell Pepper / Capsicum

1 Red Bell Pepper / Capsicum

1 Green Bell Pepper / Capsicum

1 Onion

2 Tomatoes

3 tablespoon Yogurt / Curd

1 teaspoon Ajwain

1 teaspoon Dhania Powder

1/2 teaspoon Black Pepper Powder

1/4 teaspoon Turmeric Powder

1/2 teaspoon Red Chilli Powder

Salt as needed

Oil as needed

1. Mix curd, cumin powder, black pepper powder, Ajwain, salt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt in a bowl. Add lemon juice and mix it.  

2. Grease the skewers with oil. If you are using wooden skewers, keep them in cold water for atleast 30 minutes so that they don't burnt in oven. Keep the frozen paneer in hot water till it becomes soft. Then cut paneer to 1 inch cubes. Remove the seeds from tomato and peppers. Cut tomato, onion and all peppers to inch size. Coat the pieces all over with the marinade. You can also marinate vegetable pieces. Keep them in refrigerator for atleast 2 hours.

3. Preheat the oven at 220 degrees.  Arrange paneer, tomato, peppers and onion in skewers. Keep on them on a grill or on a baking tray. I placed them on a grill and kept the grill in a baking tray. Bake them for 15 minutes or until the edges of the paneer turns brown.

4. Serve it hot with green chutney and sweet chutney.

Dahi Papdi Chaat - Chaat Items

Best thing about these chaat recipes is every bite tastes different and you get many flavours and textures at a time. Dahi Papdi Chaat with a mix of sweetend curd, soft boiled potato, sweet and tangy chutneys, crispy papdis and masala powders is mouth watering.

You can buy papdis and chutneys from Indian grocery shops or can easily make these at home.

Click on the link for Green Chutney / Mint Coriander Chutney recipe

Click on the link for Sweet Chutney / Date and Tamarind Chutney recipe.

Click on the link for Papdi recipe. 

Click on the link for Sev recipe. 

Ingredients (Makes 4 Plates)

24-30 Papdis

4 tablespoons Yogurt / Curd

1 teaspoon Sugar

3 boiled Potatoes

4 tablespoons Chopped Coriander

Sev as required

Green Chutney as needed

Sweet Chutney as needed

Chat Masala Powder as needed

Red Chilli Powder as needed

Salt as needed

Cumin Powder as needed

1. Cut potato to 4 parts. Boil potatoes for 3 whistles in a pressure cooker, discard water, remove the skin of potato and let it cool. Cut these boiled potatoes to small cubes. Keep all the ingredients ready. Mix sugar to yogurt to sweeten it. 

2. Place 6-7 papdi on a plate. Place 2-3 potato cubes on each papdi. Pour a teaspoon of sweetened curd on papdis.

3. Add sweet chutney, green chutney and then a teaspoon of chopped coriander.

4. Add sev. Mix all the powders and salt. Sprinkle this powder mixture on papdis. 

5. Serve it immediately.