Irish Apple Cake

 Ingredients

3 1/4 cups all purpose flour

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

1 tbsp baking pdr

2 tsp mixed spice

3/4 tsp salt

3/4 cup cold butter, cut into 1/4 inch cubes

3 medium apples cut into 1/4" pieces

2 large eggs

1 cup whole milk

2 tsp vanilla essence

2 tbsp granulated sugar, for the topping

 

Preparations

P reheat the oven to 350 F/ 180 C. Butter a 9 or 10 inch springform.

In a small bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, mixed spice, and salt.

In a separate, larger mixing bowl, whisk together the milk, eggs and vanilla extract.

Add the diced cold butter to the flour mixture and rub it with your hands to create fine crumbs. Work quickly so that the butter remains cold. An easier and quicker alternative is to pulse the mixture in a food processor.

Add the apples and stir to thoroughly coat them (this will prevent the apple chunks from sinking to the bottom of the cake). Add the wet mixture to the dry apple mixture. Stir just until combined. Be careful not to over-stir. The batter will be very thick.

Spoon the batter into the greased springform and smooth the top. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of sugar over the top.

Bake the cake for 65-75 minutes or until it's golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean (test it a couple of times to make sure the toothpick is going into the cake and not into the apple).

Let the cake cool in the pan for 5-10 minutes, then remove the outer ring and transfer the cake to a wire rack to cool completely before slicing.  Irish apple cake is often served with Creme Anglaise (vanilla custard sauce) or sweetened whipped cream, or can also be served with vanilla ice cream.

 

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Semolina Chocolate Egg-less cake

Today being Saraswati Pooja, I made this for prasad, as I don't have to stand and keep stirring, as I'm having pain in my knees & back.

 

Ingredients

Semolina/ suji roasted not necessary 1 cup

curd 1 cup if not sour*

milk 1 cup

sugar 3/4-1 cup as per taste

cocoa pdr 1 tsp

vanilla essence 1/2 tsp

baking pdr 1 level tsp

nuts & raisins as desired

ghee  1 tbsp for greasing the micro-safe bowl + add to the ingredients 

* if curd is sour add 1/4 cup rest add milk to make it 1 cup 

Preparations

In a big bowl, mix semolina, sugar, cocoa pdr well. 

Then add curd & milk, mix well, rest for minimum 30 minutes covered.

After that mix well again, if is thick add some milk to get it ti near pouring consistency. If too watery, add some more suji & sugar if desired.

Add nuts, raisins, and baking pdr,mix well, add vanilla essence, mix well.

Pour it in a micro-safe greased bowl. 

In my microwave, in high power, it was done in roughly 51/2 minutes .

I checked with a knife in the center, it came out clean. 

I removed, slightly cooked and cut into pieces as desired.

Guests thought it tastes like cake, or sheera/ kesari. 

I wanted a small twist to the normal kesari/ sheera , hence added cocoa pdr & vanilla essence, instead of the cardamom pdr.

One can double/ half the ingredients as desired. 

You may bake in normal oven, then the consistency of the batter must be thicker, or those who don't have oven/ microwave, you make use the pressure cooker to bake, be keeping it in very low flame, without the whistle. 

 

 

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Eggless Brownies

  

Ingredients: 

1 cup maida, 

¼ cup cocoa powder, 

¾ cup powdered sugar, 

½ tbsp baking powder, 

a pinch of salt, 

½ cup milk, 

½ cup butter, 

1 tsp vanilla essence, 

½ cup dark chocolate (melted), 

¼ cup chopped nuts 

 

Preparations

Preheat the oven and grease a baking tray and set aside.

Whisk melted butter and sugar. Add milk, melted chocolate, and vanilla essence.

Take a separate bowl and mix the dry ingredients like flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt.  

Next, add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well. Also, fold in chopped nuts.

 Next, add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well. Also, fold in chopped nuts.

 

 

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Millet Brownie Balls, egg-less

 Made this ragi/ finger millet brownies, egg-less.  It came so soft that I had to make small balls with them.

Ingredients

mashed banana 1 big

ghee melted 1/4 cup

sugar 1/2 cup

cocoa pdr 3 heaped tsp

ragi flour 1/2 cup roughly

milk 1/4 cup

baking pdr 1 tsp

baking soda 1/4 tsp

walnuts and sunflower seeds

vanilla essence 1/2 tsp

salt a big pinch 

 

In a bowl mixed mashed banana , salt, baking pd, baking soda, sugar, cocoa pdr well along with melted ghee. 

I added ragi flour 3 tsp at a time, mixing well, then added more flour, milk, till I felt the batter was thinner than the normal cake batter, added nuts

spread on a microwave safe plate baked for 3.30 minutes, checked, felt it needed to be baked a little more, baked for another 45 seconds.

Cooled, removed, sad when I cut into squares, as they're sooo soft, it kept breaking, hence I rolled then into balls ! 

 

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Apple-Plum-Raisins-Sunflower Egg-less Cake

I wanted to try this cake since some days. My own idea. Plums were not too sweet, I chopped and mixed them with sugar, along with finely chopped apples.

Ingredients

plums 5 finely chopped

apple 1/2 finely chopped, both the fruits were mixed with sugar well and soaked for almost 2 1/2 hours. 

raisins washed and soaked 2 tbsp, mixed with the fruits

sunflower seeds 2 -3 tbsp

all purpose flour about 3/4 cup

baking pdr 1 tsp

baking soda 3/4 tsp

salt little

banana mashed 2 tbsp

sugar 1/2 cup or as needed

vanilla essence 1 tsp

coconut oil 2 tbsp +

milk 2 tbsp

curd 1 tbsp

 

Preparations

in bowl I added the soaked fruits

added baking pdr and baking soda with salt to the fruits, it just started expanding, that I had to shift it to a bigger bowl

then added oil, milk,  flour about 3 heaped tsp at a time, mixing well, added sugar ,added more flour mixed well, continued till I got the desired consistency which should be thinner than the normal cake batter

added essence and seeds, mixed well.

greased 2 micro-safe glass plates, poured the mixture, micro high for 4 minutes, after 1 plate was done, I baked the second plate for 4 minutes.

once removed, with a knife turned around the corners, the cake easily came out when I tapped it onto a plate, cooled a little, then cut into pieces. 

due to slightly sour plum,when you get the plum pieces  mixed with the sweetness of the cake, it tastes better.

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One-bowl chocolate cake, Egg-less

Ingredients

Add in a bowl the ingredients one by one, keep mixing well  

All purpose flour  1 cup

Sugar ½ cup

Cocoa pdr ¼ cup

Baking soda ½ tsp

Milk  ½ cup

Oil ¼ cup

Vanilla essence 1/2 tsp 

Mix all well in a bowl and bake @ 180 C for 30 minutes in a pre-heated oven.

  

NOTE- As the size of the ovens vary, so too voltage, I request you to keep a watch on your cake right from 15 minutes on wards if your oven is small, bigger will take around 30-40 minutes depending on the size. Best is to keep an alarm accordingly. Mostly you can smell the cake once it is done. Good luck.

 

NOTE 2- I gave my small OTG due to lack of space in my kitchenette here. I bake cakes in my microwave. If I bake in the glass plate to cover the micro-safe dish, then I need just 3 1/2 minutes. But the batter should be more flowing than the normal cake batter, then you'll get a real soft cake.

 

 

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One-bowl vanilla cupcakes Egg-less

 Ingredients

In a bowl add Flour 1 cup , then rest  of the ingredients well

Sugar ½ cup

Milk ½ cup

Oil ¼ cup

Baking pdr 1 tsp

Vanilla essence 1 tsp 

Bake for 20 minutes @ 180 C in a preheated oven.

 

NOTE- As the size of the ovens vary, so too voltage, I request you to keep a watch on your cake right from 15 minutes on wards if your oven is small, bigger will take around 30-40 minutes depending on the size. Best is to keep an alarm accordingly. Mostly you can smell the cake once it is done. Good luck.

 

NOTE 2- I gave my small OTG due to lack of space in my kitchenette here. I bake cakes in my microwave. If I bake in the glass plate to cover the micro-safe dish, then I need just 3 1/2 minutes. But the batter should be more flowing than the normal cake batter, then you'll get a real soft cake.

 

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Easiest Egg-less Chocolate Brownies

Ingredients

Dark chocolate chopped 120 gm

Oil 50 gm

Butter 50 gm

Pdr sugar 200 gm

Thick curd ½ cup

Ragi flour  60 gm

Whole what flour 50 gm

Cocoa pdr 30 gm

Baking pdr ½ tsp

Baking soda ¼ tsp

Warm milk -3 tbsp or as needed

Vanilla essence 1 tsp

 salt 1/8 tsp

 

Preparations

Pre-heat oven to 175 C / 340 F.

Line an 8” / 20 cm square pan with parchment paper.

Melt the chocolate, butter and oil together in the microwave or over double boiler, cool slightly.

Stir in the pdr sugar, curd, vanilla , mix well.

Sift together ragi flour,,whole wheat flour, salt,cocoa pdr, baking pdr, and baking soda. Mix the dry ingredients gently with the wet ingredients. Add warm milk if the batter feels too thick, it should be of pourable consistency.o

Pour the batter into the prepared pan, tap it  well.

Bake for 22-25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out with moist crumbs.

 

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