Egg-less Molten Lava Cake

Just out of the oven

When Gayatri announced that for the Eggless Baking Group we were to try Molten Lava cake that  Sowmya of Nivedhanam  had suggested  this month my girls were thrilled!!

For the challenge Gayatri had provided a recipe from Noobcook. The recipe is here but in case you want to try making it egg less it will not work as it is.

I mean replacing just the eggs with the replacer that you plan like I did will not work; you will have a cake that looks like this in your hands.

 The others have successfully tried the recipe by increasing the flour and reducing the butter.

Then I decided to use the recipe that I had tried out ages ago from Vidya of Sugar n’Spice. Below is the same recipe but made egg less with a few changes.
By the way these pictures are taken in the evening after sunset kindly excuse!

Ingredients:

·       115 grms of chocolate

·        115 grms of butter (I used Amul) + for greasing 6 ramekins( I used bowls)

·        ¼ cup curd (thick)

·        ¼ cup milk

·        1 tsp vinegar

·        I tsp vanilla essence

·        1/3 cup sugar

·        ¼ cup + 1 ½ tbspn Maida

Method:

1.     Pre heat oven to 180ºC. Butter the ramekins sides and the base.

2.     Mix the chocolate and the butter in the microwave proof bowl and melt the chocolate and butter. Use short spurts of 30 secs till all the chocolate has melted. Stir in between the microwaving.  It will be faster if the chocolate is in smaller bits.

3.     Meanwhile beat the milk, vinegar, curd and sugar in a medium bowl till the sugar dissolves. Stir in the vanilla essence.

4.     Once the chocolate has melted Add the chocolate and butter mix to the milk and curd mixture and sugar mix, add the maida and fold well till well incorporated.

5.     Pour the mix till ¾ full and bake in the oven. The time taken will differ from oven to oven .Do check it out for your oven.

6.    I needed exactly 12.62 minutes for this gooey effect.

7.      Serve hot immediately with ice cream or whipped cream or dusted with icing sugar.

Thanks Gayatri and Sowmya without your push I would have never tried this cake egg-less.

Linking to

 Egg less baking.

Bake Fest

and Know your Flours ~APF started by Jagruti Guest hosted by me.

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Gulab Jamun for SNC #2

When Divya Pramil of you too can cook Indian food came up with this idea of having to teams North and South both challenging the other team I was thrilled. I signed up.

Then for various health reasons I could not sit at the computer and I had given up on this challenge. In fact I have not participated in any of the groups for which I am a member.

Then the other day I saw this beautiful Gulab Jamun post that the North posed for us here in the South. It was my hubby’s birthday the next day so I decided that this is what I will fed him!!

My idea was how difficult can it be?

But pride goes before a fall and I fell mightily learnt a lesson in humility!!J

Announcing Kid's Delight ~ Story Book Special

The best days in life are when you are kid! School and Home, Play and Study, Eat and Drink added to this were Long Vacations!

What was the best part of vacation were cousins and visits to library. I remember going to the library at opening and coming back as the Librarian was hungry for his lunch. Evenings we were not allowed to go to the library as we used to come back late!!!

We cousins still remember our treks to the library and the way we use to discuss the books we read, the foods we read about since it was mostly Enid Blyton that we read we discussed frying eggs( a no-no in our family), scones, cakes, sandwich. Ah those were the days!!

In an effort to grip the grains of time that are flowing away as the days pass by Srivalli and I thought to theme this times Kids Delight to be Cooking From Story Books.

It need not be from Enid Blyton ladies you may cook from any story book that you read.

Right now my kids read Harry Potter so I may send in some HP dishes. The one thing that floors me in HP is ‘Pumpkin Juice’. How does one make it?

A small line saying where you got the recipe or the idea for the recipe for will be appreciated.

Here are the general rules:

·        The event starts from Nov 16^th ends on 15^th Dec’2012.

·        Multiple recipes are permitted.

·        Recipes submitted to other events are also permitted.

·       Recipes from archives can be accepted ONLY if updated as current posts.

·       Only Eggs and Veggie recipes please.

·        Please use the logo below it helps to spread the word.

·        Recipes from those who do not blog are accepted. Please send me the recipe and the picture @themadscientistskitchen@gmail.com.

·       Link to this announcement as well as to Srivalli’s page a must.

·       Bloggers may add their links to the linky below.

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Shaped Bread Rolls

My bread basket

In her introduction for Baking Partners #4 Swati said that as Thanksgiving is approaching, we were to make some dinner rolls. 

Our challenge is Shaped Dinner Rolls as baking bread is what most of us have tried. but this time we were to make them  going to add some technique not only make them taste great, but also look beautiful.

As a part of the challenge we were given two different recipes, one with egg and other without egg. We were to choose either one of it.  We were also to make changes top suit our taste and needs. The one mandatory thing was that we to try at least three shapes, from 7 different shapes given for challenge. The different shapes we were given were

1)         Clover leaf  2) Rose Shape 3) small braid 4) knot 5) crescent shape 6) Rosette or Kaiser 7) Lion house rolls.