Eggless Carrot Muffin

     Till date, me tried so many cake versions but never tried muffins at home as i dont have muffin tin at home and even me was postponing the day to buy the tin. Finally saw a muffin tin for cheaper rate, me grabbed it. Immediately me tried this eggless carrot muffin by the next day and the recipe is mentioned below

ALL YOU NEED:

Maida	1 cup
Vanilla Essence	1 tsp
Grated Carrot	1/2 cup
Baking Powder	1 tsp
Baking Soda	1/2 tsp
Yogurt	1 cup
Sugar	3/4 cup bit less
Milk	1/4 cup
Salt	Pinch
Oil	1/4 cup

METHOD:
     Preheat oven to 375 F. Sieve maida, baking powder, baking soda and place it a wide bowl. Now add sugar and salt, mix all the wet ingredients for 5 mins. Now add grated carrot, vanilla essence, yogurt, milk and oil. Stir well without any lumps and until all the mixture mix up well. Now take the muffin tray, line up with muffin cups, fill 3/4 of the cup with the batter. Place it in the oven and bake it for 20 mins.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Dhokla - Microwave method

     "Dhokla" - Have tasted this recipe in many places but never tried at home. Actually i planned many times to try it at home but unfortunately it was keep on skipping. Finally Dhokla (preparation) day has come but unfortunately(again), it was a complete disaster dish which made me to HATE dhokla. I decided not to try dhokla at home. One of my north indian friend is much expert in preparing it so, atlast decided to keep her next to me and had a safe try. OMG! FORTUNATELY it came out very well and it was a super-blaster dish finally.

ALL YOU NEED:

Rava	1 cup
Besan Flour	1 tbsp
Turmeric Powder	Pinch
Eno salt	1 tsp
Sugar	1 1/2 tsp
Salt	1/2 tsp
Curd	1/2 cup
Hing	Pinch
Water	1/2 cup
Oil	1 1/2 tsp

To Garnish

Coriander Leaf	3 Twigs
Green Chilly	1 No.
Mustard	1 spoon
Oil	1 spoon

METHOD:
     Take a wide bowl. Add rava/sooji, besan flour, curd, Turmeric powder, sugar, hing, salt and oil. Give hard stir until it all get mixed up by adding required water. Let it sit for 10 minutes. After 10 mins, add eno salt, give a stir and add water if the batter is very thick. Take a microwave safe bowl, grease it with oil and pour the batter into it. Now microwave it for 5 mins by covering the bowl partially. Meantime, keep a pan, heat a spoon of oil, add mustard, once it splutters, add slited green chillies. Once it sauted, Put off the flame.

     Now check the microwave, if it is done, let the dhokla cool dowl. Once its done, replace it to a flat plate, cut into small square shape (If its not in a proper square, let it cool down for somemore minutes.) and toss the dhokla in the pan (in which we have prepared the garnished ingredients) by adding chopped coriander leaf.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Cranberry cake

     Its my long time goal (!) to bake a PERFECT cake, so far have tried plenty of variations in cake but last week was my PERFECT day to bake my PERFECT CAKE, i guess. Yes, finally i acheived it !!! Yiiiipppeeee! Without any further delay directly going to the ingredients and methods !

ALL YOU NEED:

Maida	1 cup
Rava	1/2 cup
Sugar	3/4 cup
Dried Cranberry	1/4 cup
Baking soda	1/2 tsp
Baking powder	1 tsp
Olive oil	2 tbsp
Curd	1/4 cup
Milk	2 tbsp
Salt	Pinch

METHOD:
     Take a wide bowl, add all the dry ingredients, mix well. You can sieve it, if possible. Now add all the wet ingredients, give a hard stir. Add required amount of milk, if the batter is too thick. Meantime preheat oven at 190 C for 10 mins. Now grease the cake pan with olive oil and pour cake batter and bake in oven for 30 to 35 mins in the same temperature.
    Once 3/4 batter got baked, grease the top with milk or oil just to avoid the dryness since we added rava. After 30 mins, insert a tooth pick and check if its coming out clean. If yes, your cake is ready and allow it cool and enjoy !

Linking this to Bake-A-Thon

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

My second Bake !

     I am a big addicted person for baked dishes. Nowadays, my passion towards Baking becoming like Addiction. Yes, reason behind is, am not familiar about my microwave usage/functionality, which we got as gift. That too, am having IFB with lot of in-built options. I am still under R&D and the manual which they have offered has NIL instruction about handling/preparation. So, am struggling to work with it. Most of the time, it is untouched :( You wont believe me, its going to be 1 year since we are owning it but till date, it have used it thrice :( I am much much eager to use it but i am HELPLESS. Eventhough i am novice in Baking somehow tried two bakes, one is Vanilla Tutti Fruity cake and another is Eggless Banana Dates sponge cake. He he... Nice name is it ? ;) Here comes, tentatively tried cake method for yur views

ALL YOU NEED:

Maida Flour	2 cups
Banana	2 Nos.
Dates	6 Nos.
Baking Powder	Pinch
Vanilla Esscence	1 spoon
Powdered Sugar	1/2 cup
Butter	4/5 spoons

METHOD:
     Grind Banana and Dates together to a fine paster. Let it sit for a while. Take a wide bowl, Seive Maida. Add pinch of baking powder, powdered sugar to the Maida. Add butter and Vanilla Essence. Mix it well, until it becomes sticky. Now add grinded banana and dates mixture. Give hard stir until it mixes well with the Maida. Now grease the microwave pan with the better. Pour the mixture into the greased pan. Keep pan into the microwave and set the "Cakes" option and i kept the timer for 10 mins. Funny moment was, in that 10 mins, i opened and checked the pan for morethan 10 times. Bit scared whether it will get burned... :P

    After 10 mins, take out the pan and allow it to cool for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, just inserted a tooth pick and it came out clean. Whoa!! I am was overwhelmed and was just jumping from top to floor to taste my second bake. I am much much happy with the taste but if i know the proper procedure, i can get rid off my fear :( thats the drawback with my method.

Note:Selecting "Cake" option and setting timer, all these are done tentatively. As i dont know the exact procedure. :( (You know, how much i feel sad, when i type this line)

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬