Eggless Chocochip Choco Cupcakes With Chocolate Buttercream Frosting..!!!

My daughter is a fanatical chocolate lover. Be it an ice-cream, cake or dessert her mind and tastebuds always revolve around chocolate. Since her very tender age she does not even want to try any flavor other than that. Therefore, making chocolate cakes at home is one of my unvarying works. Mostly I make cakes with eggs but this time my wanderlust mind asks me to go eggless. So this time I made Choco-chip cupcakes with chocolate buttercream frosting without using eggs. The outcome was fantastic and wholly loved by her and her friends.

Here is how to make it:

Ingredients:

                            :For the Cup Cakes:

1. All Purpose Flour ( I used self raising flour, will be available in supermarkets): 1 Cup
2. Granulated Sugar: 1  Cup (  I used 1 1/2 Cup as it was in powdered form)
3. Unsweetened Cocoa Powder: 1/3 Cup
4. Baking Powder: 1 tsp.
5. Baking Soda: 1/4 tsp.
6. Salt: Just a pinch
7. Oil: ½ Cup
8. Water: 1 Cup
9. Distilled Vinegar: 1 tbsp.
10. Vanilla Extract: 1 tsp.
11. Choco Chips: A handful.

              : For Butter Cream Chocolate Frosting: 

1. Unsweetened Chocolate : 125 gm.
2. Butter: 2/3 Cup (preferably unsalted version, and the butter should be kept at room temperature for sure)
3. Confectionary / Icing Sugar: 1 ½ Cup
4. Vanilla Essence: 1 ½ tsp.

 Process:

                                   Making Cup Cakes

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C for 10-15 minutes.
2. Prepare your cupcake baking tray with the cupcake liners. If you don’t have cupcake liners then grease it with little butter.
3. Take a bowl and sieve all the dry ingredients together i.e. flour, cocoa powder, sugar, salt, baking powder & baking soda. Mix them well.
4. Take an another bowl and add the liquid ingredients together i.e. water, oil , vanilla extract and the vinegar.
5. Then pour the liquid ingredients slowly and gradually into the dry ingredients and mix well. But remember not to over mix them.
6. Now pour the batter into the cupcake liners carefully and fill each other cupcakes liners only up to 2/3 rd.
7. Sprinkle few chocochips on the top.
8. Now bake them in the preheated oven for 20-22 minutes. Time of the baking may vary according to the power of the ovens. Once done insert a toothpick to check whether it comes out clean or not. If it comes out clean then your cakes are ready.
9. Let them cool in the baking pan for few minutes. Then remove the cupcakes from the pan and let it cool completely.

                                   Making Frosting:

1. I melted the chocolate using the double boiler method. For this you have to take a sauce pan filled with about an inch of water, bring it to boil. Put a heatproof bowl on top . Add the chopped chocolate into the top bowl. Let it melt with stirring constantly. Soon the chocolate will be melted. Now let the melted chocolate come to the room temperature and make it cool completely.
2. The melted chocolate must be cooled down. Otherwise the frosting will be very runny and you couldn’t able to frost.
3. Now take a bowl, put the room temperature butter and using a electric mixer mix it till it becomes soft and fluffy.
4. Add the icing sugar into it and mix it very well to get a smooth and creamy batter.
5. Add the vanilla extract whisk it.
6. Then add the cooled and melted chocolate and whisk it again at high speed to get a very nice soft, smooth, fluffy and creamy frosting.
7. Now put them into the piping bags and frost them on the top of the completely cooled cupcakes (don’t frost when the cupcakes are hot or warm, frosting will be runny in this way) and decorate according to your choice.

                                                                      Enjoy Your Food..!!

Eggless Apple Cake..!!!

I purely love eggless baking. It’s not only easy, quick and hassle free but also the cakes you get, are super delicious, moist and spongy. Eggless baking may be little delicate but once you master the art of it you will also start loving eggless baking. Today, I am going to share a perfect tea time cake recipe, Eggless Apple Cake which is not only very easy to make but also is very delicious too.

Here is how to make it :

Ingredients:

• All-purpose flour 1 Cup
• Sugar : 1 Cup ( I used white powder sugar, you may use granulated sugar or brown sugar whatever you have)
• Apple: 1 (Grated)
• Oil : 65 ml ( ¼ th Cup approximately)
• Lime Juice : Juice from a half lime
• Vanilla essence: 1 Tablespoon
• Baking powder: 1 Tablespoon
• Baking soda: 1 Teaspoon
• Cinnamon Powder: 1 tsp. (Optional, skip it if you don’t have it)
• Milk: ¼ th Cup

Process:

• Grate the apple first.
• Heat a  non-stick pan and add the sugar. Lower the flame and add the grated apple. Stir it. Soon the apple and the sugar will mix with each other. Cook until the sugar gets completely dissolved. Now turn off the flame and pour the oil into it little by little (don’t pour all the oil at a time) and stir continuously. Squeeze the lemon juice and add the vanilla essence into it. Mix well.
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• Now transfer the apple, sugar and oil mixture in a big bowl.
• Start sieving the dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Mix in the all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon powder and mix well.
• Now in the apple mixture bowl gradually add the dry ingredients. Don’t add all the dry ingredients once at a time. Add the milk and whisk to get smooth batter. The batter will not be very smooth as grated apples are there in the mixture. But don’t bother.
• Preheat the oven at 180 degree for 10-15 minutes.
• Meanwhile prepare your baking pan. Grease the tray with little butter and put a parchment or butter paper into it. Grease that paper also. In this way, removing cake from the cake tin will be very easy.
• Pour the batter into the prepared cake tin uniformly.
• Start baking it at 180 degree C or 350 degree F for 30-40 minutes. The time may vary according to the power of the oven. Therefore, it’s better to keep checking your cake at some intervals. Insert a fork inside the cake, if it comes out clean then your cake is ready.
• Allow it to cool for sometimes. Then demold it and cut it into pieces and serve.

                                                                          Enjoy Your Food..!!!

Eggless Rich Chocolate Brownie..!!!!

Fundamentally cakes and brownies are dissimilar from each other. Brownies have chewy or cookie like consistency and they have a crackled top whereas cakes are light and fluffy with smooth top. Generally cakes tend to have more flour, while brownies tend to have more butter (melted) or oil. During baking a cake, baking powder and baking soda are used as the basic ingredients whereas in case of baking most of the brownies, baking powder and baking soda are not necessary.

But in my version, I have used baking powder and made a soft ,moist and rich chocolaty brownie. Though here  I have mentioned to use unsalted butter but you may use salted butter too. But if you are doing this just skip the use of salt stated in the recipe ingredients. To give a extra crunchiness to the brownies use of walnuts or almonds are the must but I didn’t use them as my daughter doesn’t want to eat them. For a double chocolaty taste in this recipe I have used some chocolate chips also. If you don’t want you may not have to use this.

Here comes the recipe:

Ingredients:

• All Purpose Flour: ¾ Cup
• Powdered Sugar: 1 Cup
• Salt: ¼ tsp.
• Baking Powder: 2 tsp.
• Cocoa Powder: ½ Cup
• Unsalted Butter (Melted/Cooled): ½ Cup
• Unsweetened Yogurt: 1/3 Cup
• Vanilla Extract: 2 tsp.
• Chocolate Chips (Optional): ½ Cup
• Chopped Walnut/Almonds (Optional): ½ Cup
• Water: ½ Cup (If required)

Process:

• Preheat the oven at 180 degree Centigrade or 350 degree Fahrenheit for 10-15 minutes.
• Take a bowl and add in all the dry ingredients together i.e. all-purpose flour, sugar, salt(if using) and baking powder. Add in the cocoa powder and mix thoroughly. Make sure that there is no lump in the mixture.
• Now melt the butter in microwave or in oven and let it cool down completely.
• Take a big bowl and add the melted butter, yogurt and vanilla extract and whisk it thoroughly until you get a very smooth, creamy and, lump free mixture.
• Add in the dry ingredients gradually into the liquid mixture and mix well. But do not over mix. During this time if you find that the mixture is too tight you may add ½ cup of water and mix well.
• Add the chocolate chips and almond or walnuts if you are using. Mix well.
• Now take a baking pan and grease it with butter or oil. Line it with parchment paper with sides up. Actually with the use of parchment paper it will be easy to lift up the brownie after baking. Grease the parchment paper also with butter.
• Now pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake it inside the preheated oven for 30-40 minutes (The times actually depends on the power of the oven, it may take even 45-50 minutes).
• Check the brownie by inserting a fork or tooth pick. If it comes out clean then the brownie is ready.
• Take the pan out of the oven and let it cool completely. Once the brownie cools down completely demold it and cut it into square pieces. Dust them with some powder sugar and serve. You may serve it with vanilla ice-cream also.

                                                              Enjoy Your Food..!!!

Milk Powder Cake...!!!

Since a long time many of my readers have been asking me for a quick ,easy, tried and tasted recipe of a cake , which can be baked specially in the microwave oven.  So ,here I am sharing one of them today which I usually prepare at home for my daughter, as this one is one of her most favorites. 
Milk Powder Cake: 



Here comes the process:



Ingredients:

• All purpose flour /Plain Flour: 1 Cup
• Milk Powder:1 Cup
• Powdered Sugar: 1 Cup
• Low Fat Fresh Cream: 1 Cup
• Butter (Normal or Unsalted): 2 tbsp.
• Oil or butter for greasing the baking pan
• Cinnamon Powder: 1/2 tsp. (Optional)
• Baking Powder: 1 ½ tsp.
• Baking Soda: A pinch.
• Cashews: A handful.

Process:

• Preheat the oven to  180 degree C for 5 minutes.
• Now in a mixing bowl sieve the flour, mix in powdered sugar, milk powder,baking powder, baking soda, butter and the fresh cream. Using a electric mixer or by hands mix thoroughly until there is no lump.
• Grease the baking pan with little oil or butter.
• Pour the batter into it,sprinkle some cashews on top and bake in in the preheated oven for 30 minutes( timing generally depend on the power of your microwave oven, so it may require little more or less time than the mentioned timing) at 180 degree C.
• To check whether the cake is done or not, just insert a fork or toothpick inside the cake. If it comes out clean, then your cake is ready.
• Make it little cool and carefully demold it from the cake pan , cut and serve.

                                                                        Enjoy Your Food..!!

Frosted Chocolate Buttermilk Cake...! Happy Valentine's Day to All My Dearest Blog Readers...!

There was a time in my life when I didn't have any idea about this Valentine day. First time, most probably when I was in 10th standard one of my friends told me about it. But I didn't understand properly. After returning home I searched the dictionary and got a very faint idea about the Saint Valentine's Day. Nowadays even my 5 year old daughter knows about it. But anyway, Love is the most wonderful feelings of the world which should be expressed in a special way. 14th February is observed to be celebrated as the Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day or The Feast Of the Valentine. All over the world people celebrate this day in various exclusive ways. Day by day the craziness regarding the day is just increasing tremendously. But to be very honest I don't believe that any particular day is required or essential  to celebrate my love. I think you can make your everyday or even every moment very special for your beloved one. Moreover I don't think that Valentine's day should be entirely related to the "couples" only. We can show our affection to all whom we love, be it our partner, be it our best friends, be it our parents or even children.


Anyway, not exactly because of celebrating this Valentine's day but just to see the smiling face of my little one and also to pamper my baking addiction, I made these frosted chocolate-buttermilk cakes yesterday. I chose chocolate flavor as it is her most favorite

Here is the entire process.

Ingredients:

For the Cake:

• All Purpose Flour:3/4th Cup
• Sugar:3/4th Cup
• Cocoa Powder:6 tbsp( Preferably Dutch Process)
• Hot Water:4/5 tbsp.
• Baking Powder:1 tsp.
• Baking Soda:1/2 tsp.
• Salt:1/4 tsp.
• Unsalted Butter:3 tbsp (melted)
• Buttermilk:6 tbsp.
• Egg:1 large egg
• Egg White:white of 1 large egg.

 For Icing( Buttercream):

• Unsalted Butter:1/2 cup (keep at room temperature)
• Icing Sugar:1 Cup
• Vanilla Extract:1/2 tsp.

Process:

• Preheat the oven in 170-180 degree C .Place the cup ckae liners into your cup cake baking tray.
• In a large mixing bowl mix the flour,sugar,baking powder,baking soda and salt.Set it aside.
• With an electric mixer mix the cocoa powder with the hot water and beat until a thick smooth paste is formed. It may require little more hot water. Mixing the cocoa powder with hot water will intensify the chocolate flavour.
• Now into this chocolate paste add the butter,buttermilk,egg and egg white. Beat until combined.
• Then Whisk in flour mixture till a smooth batter is prepared. You may use a electric mixer for this. But whaterver you use do not over beat it. Mix until smooth and no lump is present in the mixture.
• Pour the batter into the cupcake liners and bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 mins or until risen ,firm and a inserted toothpick into the cakes comes out clean.
• Now take these out of the oven and let it cool for sometime.

For the Buttercream :

• For the buttercream beat together the butter,icing sugar and vanilla extract until smooth.You may add any food color of your choice to the frosting.
• Spread or pipe a little of the buttercream on the top of the each cupcake.
• To make it more special ,make different shapes with fondant or buttersugar paste and decorate your cupcakes.You may use different edible colored sprinkles too.

For the Heart Shaped Cake:

• With the same batter, using a heart shaped mould I made an another cake. For this cake I baked it in the preheated oven for 20 - 25 mins. and decorated it with the same icing and fondant.

          Enjoy Exclusively With Your Valentine...!

Eggless Choco Chip Cookies...

Cookies are my family's one of the most favourite baking stuffs but to be very frank, I don't like to make cookies with egg all the time. This is the only thing which refrains me from making them.  Therefore I was looking for a good  recipe with which I can make crispy, soft and delicious cookies but it should be without egg.After my different searches here and there, finally, I got one and with that basic recipe I made an effort to make Eggless Choco Chip Cookies. I didn't think that my cookies would be so soft, crunchy, crispy and delicious without egg even.

 Here is the recipe for my Eggless Choco Chip Cookies:


Ingredients:

• All Purpose Flour : 1 Cup
• Rice Flour: 2 tbsp.
• Caster Sugar: 4 tbsp.
•  Butter: 60 gm.( Keep the butter in room temperature)
• Vanilla Extract:1/2 tsp.
• Milk: 2 tbsp.
• Baking Powder:1/2 tsp.
• Chocochips:1/2 Cup

 Process:

• Preheat the oven in 160 degree C or 320 degree F for at least 10 minutes.
• Beat the butter and sugar very well with an electric mixer until light and creamy. Add the vanilla essence,milk and beat again.
• Sieve the flour. rice flour and baking powder very well.
• Gently mix in the flour and chocolate chips with butter using a spoon to get a soft dough.
• Shape into small rounds .Flatten slightly.
• Cover the back of a baking tray with aluminium foil and grease it with butter. 
• Place cookies 1/2" apart. Bake in the preheated oven art 160 degree C / 320 degree F for 30 minutes.

                              Enjoy Your Food...!