Thursday, March 8, 2012

EGGLESS YELLOW SPONGE CAKE



Recipe Source: Tamalapaku


Ingredients:
All purpose flour                   1.5 cups
Baking powder2 tsp
Baking soda1/4 tsp
Milk1 cup
Sugar1 cup
Custard Powder1/2 cup
Vanilla extract1 tsp
Butter1/2 cup


Procedure:
Step1:
Boil milk,butter and sugar in a sauce pan.Boil it until the sugar melts

Step2:
Once the mixture becomes lukewarm, add in the custard powder. Using a whisk mix well until there are no lumps

Step3:
Sift the dry ingredients together (Flour, baking powder and baking soda) in a large bowl

Step4:
Now add the liquid ingredients to this and mix well. Do not overmix though

Step5:
Pour the batter in a greased 9" round pan

Step6:
Bake in a preheated oven of 325F for 40 - 45 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.Bake it in the middle rack of the oven


Notes:
  • Allow the cake to cool completely before slicing.If required garnish with powdered sugar
  • This cake does not require any frosting as such. If adding frosting reduce the amount of sugar in the batter to 3/4 cups
  • If adding powdered sugar on top,sprinkle with a help of a sieve to spread evenly
Frosting the cake with whipped cream (optional)
Whipping cream: 1/2 pint
Powdered sugar: 2 tablespoons
Vanilla extract: 1/2 tsp

Sugar syrup
Water: 1/4 cup
Sugar: 1/4 cup

1) Whip the cream with sugar and vanilla extract until the stiff peak forms
2) Prepare the sugar syrup by boiling water and sugar together until the sugar dissolves
3) Cut the cake into twp horizontally. Moisten with the sugar syrup
4) Frost with whipped cream
Custard Cake

Eggless Custard Cake

Eggless Custard Cake


Monday, March 5, 2012

Masala Triangle chappathi



Ingredients
Wheat flour/Atta                           2 cups    
Salt1 tsp
Sugar1 tsp
Oil2 tablespoons
Ghee/Oil:2 tsp
Ajwain seeds1 tsp
Red Chilli powder1/2 tsp
Warm water1 cup
Procedure:
Step1:
Add 2 tablespoon of oil to the flour and mix well


Step2:
Add salt, sugar, chilli powder, ajwain seeds and knead well with warm water.
Approximately requires 1 cup of water.Add more if required


Step3:
Divide into 8 equal balls.


Step4:
First make a circle. Coat with ghee/oil and fold it into half


Step5:
Again coat with this oil/ghee and fold this to half again


Step6:
Now roll it into triangle shape


Step7:
Heat the tawa and cook the chappathi on both sides with oil


Suggested Accompaniments
Vegetable Kurma

Saturday, March 3, 2012

CWS: Cooking with Corn Roundup

Finally I have posted the round up of the CWS cooking with corn event.
Thanks to all of you for the wonderful entries and thanks to Priya for giving me this opportunity


Sravani of Srav's Culinery concepts sent Corn & Tomato Salad





Shoba of Good Food sent Corn Bonda


Kalpana Sareesh of Life with Spices sent Corn Methi


Divya of DivyasCulinery Journey sent Corn Fritters


Sasikala of Sasi Samayal Kuripu sent Roasted corn salad


Vaishali of ribbon to pastas sent Cheesy corn rice


Usha of  MySpicyKitchen sent Chocolate Popcorn


Kaveri of Palakkad Chamayal sent Sweet corn tikkis and Spinach and corn sandwich 




Sangee of SpicyTreats sent SweetCorn Cilantro rice,Sweet corn tomato bhath, Sweet Corn Tikkis,






Rasya Srinath of Vegetarian Food and me sent Corn Kebabs


Gayathri Rani of Gayathri's cook spot sent Sweet Corn Tofu kebab


Julie of Erivum puliyum sent Corn Chat




Finally my entry Microwave Corn flour Halwa