Eggless Marble Cake Recipe | Marble Cake (Eggless, Butterless)

Marble Cake, eggless, butterless marble cake makes excellent tea cake or a quick breakfast cake or even dessert. Since Valentine day is just a day away I am sharing this very easy and delicious cake recipe which is eggless and also without any butter plus I have used yogurt this time which bring good flavor and taste to the cake so if you look for easy yogurt base cake recipes then you going to cake this.

Eggless Dates Cake | Eggless, Butterless Dates Cake Recipe

Dates Cake, eggless, butterless date cake makes excellent tea cake or a quick breakfast cake or even dessert. Hope all of you had great start of the year and wishing everyone again a very Happy New Year and to start this year of blogging on sweet note here is simple yet delicious date cake recipe.  This dates cake recipe is very easy just mix the dry ingredients, wet ingredients and bake and we don't need any special gadgets also a bowl, spatula or wire whisk is enough to make this moist and delicious cake. 

Black Forest Cake

Remember my tricolor cupcakes with cream frosting, the same day I also made this black forest cake for DH birthday.  Last year I baked chocolate cake with chocolate frosting which was so delicious I got wonderful review for it from DH and others but couldn’t post it as I didn’t took pictures. 


This year after a lot of thinking I decided to make black forest cake as it was in my wish list for long and took all my effect to take pictures too.  The step vise pictures looks a bit messy, but having newspaper over the counter really helps a lot with aftermath of baking as the one part I hate about baking is cleaning after all the work done, always end up having so many things to wash, clean, wipe and store back all the spoons, cups, tins and what not! It’s just me or any of you have same feeling too?  Anyways here the cake just before cutting :)


Coming back to our cake, yes I agree I didn’t pipe well and it doesn’t cook all pretty too as I am still learning and hope to do better in future.  It was a humid day (as always) the icing was melting which you can see in the pictures and I was running out of my patience.   If you are patience enough and practice you can decorate the cake nicely it comes with practice so don’t be dishearten if 1st time you don’t get it right, you will eventually get it it’s just matter of time. 

Anyways the cake tasted deliciousssss, seriously it was too delicious everyone liked it and I shared this with my friend and she loved it too.   I adapted the recipe from joyofbaking and from Prema’s black forest cake recipe and came up with my own recipe, and thanks to Prema for always motivating to try icing, no matter how I do she still praise it with kinds words (though I know the truth ;)).  So not dragging any more let’s look at the recipe.   Posting this cake today as it's dear friend Dharini birthday, so here you go gal Wish you Happy Birthday.

Ingredients:
[Adapted from Joyofbaking & Prema’s Culinary]

For Chocolate Sponge Cake
Plain Flour - 250gms ( 2 cups)
Baking Powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Baking Soda - 1 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Eggs - 4
Granulated White Sugar - 200gms
Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp
Vegetable Oil - 60 ml [4 tbsp]
Cocoa Powder - 30 gms [ 1/3 cup]

For Whipping Cream Frosting & Assembly
Whipping Cream - 400ml
Icing Sugar - 20gms
Pitted Cherries - 1 tin [halved, keep the syrup]
Corn Flour - 1 tbsp
Granulated White Sugar - 2 tbsp
Maraschino Cherries - 10-12
Chocolate Rise - 100gms
Colorful Sprinkles - 1 tbsp [optional]



Method

For Chocolate Sponge Cake
1. Shift plain four, baking powder, soda, salt and keep aside. Line and grease a 9" round baking tin. Preheat oven at 180C [ I used 8” round baking tin].

2. In a large bowl break eggs, add sugar and beat in high speed for 5-6 minutes or until egg mixture gets light & fluffy  add oil, vanilla extract and beat for a minute to combine everything well.

• For eggless version, replace eggs and sugar with 1/2 cup of condense milk and rest of procedure is same

3. Add cocoa powder, Keep adding flour in small quantities and blend well.

4. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.  You will also notice cake will start to leave sides of pan.  Cool on a metal rack for 5 minutes before removing cake from pan and then cool the cake completely before frosting.

• [You can bake this as a single cake like I did or divide the batter in two same size tin and bake twice, you need to check the cake after 25 minutes if it’s baked fully.
• You can make the sponge cake in advance and store in fridge (wrapped well in cling) up to to 2 days before doing frosting]

For Frosting
5. Remove wax paper from cake and slice the cake in 2 or 3 layers horizontally.

• [If you baked the cake in 2 pans then slice in 2 layers so in total there will be 4 layers of cake]

6. Drain out juice from cherries in a bowl, halves cherries & keep aside.  In a small bowl take 2-3 tbsp of drained cherries juice, add corn flour and mix well, make sure not to form any lumps.

7. Heat drained juice along with 2 tbsp sugar until it starts to boil, slow flame, now add corn flour mixture and whisk briskly.  In a minute juice will start to thicken off flame and keep aside to cool.

8. In a large bowl add whipping cream, icing sugar and beat till stiff peaks.

Now that we have all prep work done we can work on our assembly.
For Assembly
9. Place a cake layer on the cake board and brush with prepared syrup evenly over, idea here is to soak cake to make it soft but do not add too much of syrup it will make the cake soggy and it will break.

10. Add a dollop of cream on top and spread over, decorate with cherries.

11. Repeat for 2nd cake layer with syrup, cream and cherries. Keep the third layer on second,spread the cream on top evenly.

12. Frost sides of the cake.  Fill cream in a piping bag and decorate top sides.  In the center you have include chocolate  shaves.   I thicken up remaining syrup and spread it in center.

13. Coat sides of cake with chocolate rice and also on top of cake and pipe lower edges of cake.

• [I did a mistake of piping top and bottom of cake and then coat chocolate rice]

14. Place the Maraschino cherries at the top and add sprinkles in center. 

Want a bite?



Have a nice day ~~

Open-Face Plum Cake Recipe

I made this cake for my in-laws and couldn’t post it due to my blog break, now what better than to post a cake before Easter and the fact that this cake is so simple; makes it more appealing.  I always like plum and decide to bake something with it this time.   After little search I end up at Martha Stewart recipe, a very simple recipe.  I have halved her recipe and made one cake. 



I liked this cake texture, it was just so perfect, plum juice flowing all over the cake making it look so pretty and it goes without saying everyone liked it.  So if you are looking for some easy and quick tea time cake with fruit then this is for you.  Before moving over to recipe…wishing everyone Happy Easter and long weekend. 



Ingredients: [ Serves -6 ]
Recipe Source: Martha Stewart

Plain Flour/Maida - 3/4 cup
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
Sugar - 3/4 cup + 1 tbsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Milk - 1/4 cup
Vegetable Oil - 2 tbsp
Egg - 1
Plums - 5-7 [ I used black plum]
Cinnamon Powder - 1 tsp
Cold Unsalted Butter - 1 1/2 tbsp [cut into small pieces]



Method:

1. Grease a 8” or 9” pan with 1/2 tbsp of butter and 1 tbsp of flour. Dust of excess flour from pan.  Preheat oven to 400F or 200 degree. 
2. Wash, halve and pit plums.  Make sure not to use very sour plums or over ripen plums.  I used black plums here, you can use red/black whatever you wish.



3. Shift flour, baking powder, salt and keep aside.  In a wide bowl add 3/8 cup sugar, milk, oil, egg and whisk well to combine everything.  Add 1/2 tsp of cinnamon powder and mix.



4. Add flour in batches and fold gently.



5. Pour batter in prepared pan and arrange plums with cut side up, over batter.  Sprinkle remaining sugar, cinnamon powder over plums, dot with butter. 
~ I also inserted small pieces of plum inside pan, that’s why you can see red plum juice in cake.



6.  Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean.  Mine took 40 minutes to bake.  Let the cake cool completely on a wire rack and cut in desire shape.



~ Cake taste better next day.  Look at the sauce on pan edges, so beautiful right? 



Would you like a bite?  And this goes to Radhika's I Love Baking Event..



Note:

1. Refrigerate and you can keep the cake for 1 day, more than that plum might get spoil or sour.
2. Try not to use very sour plums, it will spoil cake taste.
Have a nice day ~~

Eggless Orange Marble Cake

This orange marble tea cake I baked for friends and also for my in-laws.  I adapted this easy recipe from Prathibha’s Orange Cake and made it orange marble cake as Prathibha mention in her post it’s a very easy recipe, a must try for beginners with simple basic ingredients.  Chocolate & fresh orange gives the cake unique taste and refreshing flavour making it perfect for this Christmas season baking,  today is my sister-in-law birthday so it’s perfect for me to post this cake recipe, Happy Birthday Gudiya. 

Ingredients:
Plain Flour - 1 1/4 cups
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
Condensed Milk - 1/2 cup/can
Butter - 1/2 cup [at room temperature]
Fresh Orange Juice - 1/2 cup
Powdered Sugar - 3 tbsp [ to taste]
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Apple Cider Vinegar - 1 tsp [optional]
Orange Zest - 1/2 tsp
Cocoa Powder - 2 tsp

Method:
1.  Sift flour, baking powder and soda and keep aside.
2. In a bowl add butter, condensed milk, orange juice, sugar, vanilla essence and apple cider vinegar and mix everything well.
3. Now fold in flour in 2-3 batches and after each addition mix gently so there is no lumps formed. 
4. Divide 1/2 of cake batter in another bowl, add cocoa powder and mix well.  In the remaining cake batter add orange zest and mix well too.
5. Preheat oven to 180g C and grease a 8 inch round or square pan, whatever you like.
6. In the prepared pan add 1tbsp of orange batter followed by 1tbsp of cocoa batter, continue doing it until you run out of both batters. 
You can use a toothpick or knife and make swirls on the cake, I didn’t do that.
7. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until the crust is golden brown in color or if the tooth pick comes out clean when inserted in centre of cake.  If required bake for 5 more minutes.
8. Cool the pan on a wire cake, after 5 minutes invert and remove the cake from pan and let it cool completely now.  Cut in desire shape.
Enjoy orange marble cake with hot or cold drinks. 

And this goes to Sangeetha’s Bake Fest.
Have a nice day ~~

7 Links Game

Hope everyone had a great Diwali celebration, it’s time to take break & relax now and I am just going to do the same.  It’s been long I am tagged by Prathibha and Prema for this 7 link games and it’s time for me to look through the blogging journey.    Thank You guys for tagging me, here I go

My Most Beautiful Post: Apple Compote Financiers.  I think you all will agree with me on this one, don’t you?  The name is complicated but the recipe is very simple and the end result you see for yourself.  I have received lot of compliment for this post and few people did try this too. 


My Most Popular Post: Prawn Masala. This recipe was 1st non-vegetarian recipe on my blog which was done by Sis and BIL, so far this is one post that tops high number of hits for each month and top in search too.  This is one recipe where I got maximum feedback from readers, few have commented in blog and lot of people mail me with full appreciation for this recipe.  Some times simple things makes big difference and this masala prawn is true example of that.


The Post I Am Most Proud Of: Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookie, These cookies I baked for my nephew, after eating these cookies my BIL, Sis and nephew declared I am good baker it’s so difficult to get compliment from them. Them n my colleague both said these cookies taste just like shops one’s, what else to make me happy.  Few of my friends tried it and loved too. 


Most Useful Post:  Chawal Ki Roti.  This is one of the best use to use leftover rice and prepare a tasty dish.  Most of the time I do this,  lot of readers and friends has tried this and loved it.


Surprise Success Post:  Aloo Gobi Ki Sabji.  One of my another popular post, it’s easy, delicious and very authentic recipe.  And this is one recipe for which I get lot of compliment every time I make this.  Again received good feedback for this recipe too. 


Another post surprise successful post is Murkku Sandwich.  I never expected to get the huge response I received from this post, lot of query and lot of people tried it.  


Most controversial post: None so far


Post Which Deserves Attention, But Did Not Get As Much:  I have lot of posts which needs attention If I have to point now I would say Marmer Cake, It’s a very simple recipe with a tasty result, it looks so pretty still didn’t get much needed attention !



I would like to tag Lubna, Ramya, Indrani, Ramya Bala, Sapthna, Faith & Priya.

Have a nice day ~~

Fruit Trifle | Trifle Pudding Recipe

I find planning a menu time consuming task and last few days I had back to back hosting guests, every time to decide new menu with new recipes can be difficult and one of those days Prathibha gave me the idea to try Fruit Trifle/Trifle Pudding for dessert. 


The good thing about this trifle is one can make this recipe as per their taste and requirement and it’s so simple to make. If you have lot of work for get together or party then this trifle can be very handy as everything can be put together in less than 20 minutes provided having some cake in hand.  Just make the custard, arrange the trifle, keep it in fridge and forget about it until it’s time to serve and wow your family, friends and guests with this delicious and attractive trifle.

Try this recipe during this festive season for a sweet surprise to your near and dear ones, how about using eggless cake to make this trifle pudding and serve this for Diwali dinner dessert for a change?  Sounds interesting rite? 



Ingredients: [Serves - 6]
Cake - 1 1/2 cup chopped [ I am using marmer cake here]
Banana - 2
Apple - 1
Strawberry - 18-20 pieces
Whipped Cream - For garnishing [optional]
  
For Custard
  Custard Powder - 3 tbsp
  Milk - 500ml
  Sugar - 4 tbsp [to taste]
 


Method:

1. We can start with making the custard, boil milk, meanwhile in a bowl take custard and add 50ml from the boiling milk or just enough milk to mix with custard.  Make sure there is no lumps formed. 
2. Add sugar in milk and let it simmer for 2 minutes.  Now add the custard milk mix and stir non-stop on low flame, milk will start to thicken this takes 3-5 minutes. Custard has to be thick with pouring consistency, keep aside.



3. While the custard is getting ready we can work on chopping the fruits.  You can use any fruit of your choice like orange, pomegranate, peach etc.  Wash well and chop all the fruits, keep aside.


4. You can use cake of your choice, if you have any leftover it works perfect.  Chop cake in small pieces, even brownie or muffin will work here.  I am used marmer cake.
5. For assembly, in serving glass add chopped cake pieces until 1/4 of glass.  You can use a large serving bowl or plate and arrange the cake pieces. 


6. Pour 3-4 tbsp of custard, then layers of fruits.  I kept apple, banana followed by strawberry. 


7. Our fruit trifle is ready, cover it with cling wrap or aluminium foil and chill in fridge for 2-3 hours or until ready to serve. 



Garnish with whipped cream and top it with strawberry or cherry before severing.  Isn’t that easy?  Make this a day before (don’t use banana in that case as it will change colour) or in the morning before your party.



Variations
~  If you don’t have any leftover cake in hand no problem, try this with jelly.
~ Use any flavour custard, I used pista flavour.
~ Choice of fruit is up to you whatever you can lay your hands on.  You can also use canned fruits but personally I like to use fresh ones.
~ You can do layering as per your choice like starting with cake/jelly, fruits and then custard.  In this case you have to let the custard set first. 

Have a nice day ~~