Micro wave Orange Cake~A Blog Hop

Since my husband & I have our birthdays just 4 days off one another we celebrate together. But this time I wanted to surprise him with a cake on his birthday.

Surprise has to be surprise does it not? So what better than a cake that cooks in the microwave and in 12 minutes when he is at walk, best time his evening walk?

So I baked this cake for him from Mom’s Corner by Rudra my partner for Blog Hop for this fortnight.In case you have not checked her corner till now do so now.Thanks to Radhika who is the brains behind the entire operation! You can join the gang subscriptions to the new version are open till the 15th  Dec.

Reposting for Events-- Kids_Delights

I am reposting Chatpata Makhana as my entry to Gayathri's  Cook Spot as my entry to Kids_Delight originally started by Srivalli 

Chatpata Makhana

This is simple but lovely recipe not only do the kids love it but we adults also cannot keep away from popping quite a few in our mouth.

This is made out of Makhana which is  roasted lotus seeds .

There is nothing to it just pop a few makhana in an oven proof bowl. Add a tsp of ghee (I suppose you can use oil or butter but I have always used ghee which is clarified butter), a tsp or 2 of chaat masala as per your taste mix well.

Microwave in the oven for 1 minute or 2.

Serve it. Enjoy!!

Archana

Egg-less Chocolate Cake 2 Or Whole Wheat Egg-less Chocolate Cake

The Egg-less Chocolate Cake! This is how tall it was!!

Amazed at this gargantuan cake! Well I was too and it has a story behind it…

My friend Vidya came around the other day on her way out for her evening walk and left behind a container for me to microwave as hers was for repairs. She said it was a cake and to just microwave it for 10 minutes. She had also left behind a sachet of Eno’s fruit salt to be used if needed. I used it!!

Since all my micro containers were for a wash I took out the microwave rice cooker that I rarely use and just store my extra dish cloth in it and used it. Boy was I glad I did it, the cake was huge anything else and I would have spent the evening moping the oven floor and cursing her (especially since she was on her way to a party by then)!!

Of course she shared the recipe with me!! We do that regularly. What more you use regular gehu ka atta to make it.

Ingredients:

2 cups whole wheat flour (yes whole wheat /Gehu ka atta)

1 ½ cup sugar

½ tsp soda

1 tsp baking powder

2 tblspn cocoa

1 tblspn drinking chocolate

½ tsp instant coffee (my addition)

½ tsp vanilla essence

2 tblspn butter (I used salted butter)

½ cup curd

½ + 1/3 cup milk (I used 1 cup)

2.5 grms Eno’s salt

Method:

1.       Melt the butter totally add the curds and milk. Mix well and keep aside.

2.       Mix all the dry ingredients except the Eno’s salt in a big bowl.

3.       Add the butter mixture. Mix well. It is okay if the mixture is soft dough consistency the sugar will melt. Keep aside for 4 hours.

4.       Grease a huge container. Mix the Eno’s salt in the batter and transfer to the container.

5.       Microwave for 10 minutes or till the knife inserted comes out clean.

Sending this to Pari's 'Only Series' of events is here at Tamalapaku this month and this time it would be

'Only - Baked'

  

 Archana

Egg-less Whole Wheat Chocolate Cake

Biscuit Cake(Eggless)

My SIL makes this cake very often. It's very simple, tasty, and can be made out of ingredients available at home. Her instructions are also simple but I have tried to put some standard measures.

Ingredients:

1 packet of glucose biscuits the one that costs Rs.10/- only (190 grams).

3 dav sugar (dav is a serving spoon for daal substitute with  190 grams)

2 tblspns Drinking chocolate

2 tblspns  cocoa

220 ml milk

1 sachet of Eno's fruit salt (5 grams)

Method:

1.  Grease a bowl/ tray about 6x3 inches.
2. Grind the biscuits, sugar cocoa and drinking chocolate to a fine powder.
3. Transfer to mixing bowl.
4. Add 200 ml milk and make a batter. Mix well.
5. In the remaining milk add the fruit salt and mix immediately in the batter.
6. Mix well. Transfer in the greased bowl/tray.
7. Microwave for 10 minutes or, till the cake leaves the sides of the bowl or till a knife inserted in the cake comes out dry.

P.S. the beauty of the cake is you can add 10-12 almonds, cashewnuts . I generally add it in the mixer to avoid the complaints galore.

You can use any biscuit only the sugar and flavouring will have to be changed accordingly.

Bake it as a regular cake in the oven also its divine.