Pink Rose Cake: Vanilla Fresh Cream Cake: Sponge Cake: Eggless Baking

Mother- greatest power of the universe!  Because she is there, you are there. You owe your existence to her. When she smiles at me even on a Skype call, I feel like her smile has hugged me. Oh there are millions reasons why I love her and probably because of the million things she has done and still doing for me which I don’t even know of. That’s mom- one selfless person who can make everything worthwhile. How would you describe a mother, someone asked me. Well, life doesn’t come with manual, it comes with a mother.

To compile this post I asked my blogger friends to tell why a mother is an inspiration for them and one recipe/dish they will like to cook for their mother.

Sandhya of Sandhya’s kitchen says-My mum is a very skilled cook, who believes that we need to have a balance in what we eat. Anything in moderation is good for health like a Teaspoon of Ghee. I have learnt my basics (disinterestedly at a very early age like any other girl). Seeing her work selflessly always inspires me !! 

Mum being a coconut lover, I would love to dedicate this recipe of Blueberry Coconutmilk Smoothie to her.

Manali of Cook With Manali  says-My mom inspires me everyday, in everything I do. I think the biggest thing that she has taught me is to have patience and to face all challenges in life with a smile. She is the strongest woman I know and whatever I am today, it's all because of her. 

Mom loves my muffins, so for this Mother's Day I would love to bake her a batch of these Mini Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins, I am sure she would love them!

Rafeeda of Big Sweet Tooth says- Umma was somebody who had a limited dishes to her repertoire. She never loved to experiment and get out of her comfort zone, so much that we could predict what was the menu for the whole coming week. However, whatever she would make, the taste would be so good that I definitely cannot match that taste. She enjoys it when my sister and I do our experiments even though she wouldn't be involved in it. 

She wanted me to try making Lqeimat, which are Emirate yeasted dumplings drizzled with date syrup. However I couldn't make it even last month when they were with me, thanks to our tight schedule. InShaAllah, wish to make it soon for her. 

And I decided to dedicate this simple Pink Rose Cake for mother’s day. I used Vanilla Sponge cake for base and iced it with fresh cream icing with 2 drops of pink colour.

Eggless Vanilla Cupcakes With Flaxseeds, Without Yogurt And Condense Milk

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It’s always overwhelming to be appreciated or to see your blog’s recipes being published on another platforms-isn't it? And when such accomplishments happens a sweet celebration is a must.  This time it is Eggless Vanilla Cupcakes With Flaxseeds. Yum!!

Before I move ahead do take a look at my other eggless bakes:

Eggless Vanilla Cupcakes (with yogurt)

Eggless Almond Chocolate Cake (without condensed milk and yogurt)

Eggless Blackforest Cake (with coke)

Eggless Coffee Orange Marble Cake (with milk)

Today’s recipe is more royal and rich, more elegant and classy. It happened 2 weeks back when I laid my eyes on this square cupcake moulds  and these liners from wilton- oh it was an instant love. If you like new shapes and designs then buying these moulds is a good idea- a great alternative to old round cupcakes. Next, I used flaxseeds as eggs substitutes in this recipe and oh my god (very loudly) why dint I do that before.

Flax seeds are economical, easy, quick and very healthy. Those of you who are vegans, vegetarians or just don’t like the egg smell in the cakes then you have to try and use flaxseeds meal. If you want to know more about it read How to make flaxseeds as egg replacer in the bakes and how to include flaxseeds in the Indian diet.

Ingredients:

3/4 Cup - All purpose flour/Maida

3/4 Cup - Milk

1 tablespoon - Flax Seed Meal (see notes)

3/4 cup - Sugar

1/4 teaspoon - Baking soda

1/2 teaspoon - Baking Powder

1/8 teaspoon - Salt

1 tablespoon - Oil

2 teaspoons - Vanilla Extract

Method:

Mix one tablespoons of flax seeds powder with 3 tablespoons of water. Let it stand for 10 minutes. The mixture will become thick paste.
Preheat the oven at 180C and line the cupcake moulds with cupcake liners.
Mix all the dry ingredients together- all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
In a larger bowl, mix the oil, sugar, flax seed-water mixture and vanilla extract. Mix for 5-8 minutes.
Slowly sieve the dry ingredients mixture with the wet mixture and beat alternating the milk. 
Fill the cupcakes liner with the batter and bake till 35-40 minutes or till toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Let the pan sit on the rack for 10 minutes and let the cake cool down completely before frosting.

Notes:

Flaxseed is commonly known as Alsi (Gujrati, Hindi Punjabi), Jawas (Marathi), Tishi (Bengali) and Agasi (Kannada).

I buy the milled ones- but do check the label, you must buy good quality ones. I use this organic Linwoods Organic Flax.

If you want square moulds in India you can buy from here.

Serving suggestions:

Just dust some icing sugar and serve plain.

Serve with coffee or tea.

Icing Options:
Butter cream frosting
Chocolate Ganache
White chocolate glaze
Chocolate Mousse
Mango Mousse
Fresh cream
No cream chocolate frosting

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Vanilla Marble Loaf Cake, Soft And Beautiful

Most of my fellow bloggers in the UK are complaining about the weather. Well I am also one among them, I mean common it is April and it is still snowing here. Any ways the only good way to cheer up the mood in these chill days is to bake something sweet.

I love the smell of the bakes especially with a of touch vanilla. Every time I think of vanilla one cake that pops in my mind is good old Victoria Sponge Cake. I have made eggless vanilla cup cakes before, this time I wanted to try vanilla loaf cake without butter. I always planned to make one but every time I did something new to it, thus forgetting about the plain loaf. Yeah! This time too I did the same thing, I added my favorite silver spoon blue colour to bring the marble effect.  Silver Spoon has some great range in the colors and I find them best among all the food colors. The overall taste and look of the cake was amazing. I added very little blue color and I was satisfied with the outcome. Coming back to the recipe.

Ingredients:

All purpose flour- 11/4 cup
Egg - 2
Oil-1/4 cup
Sugar-3/4 cup
Milk -1/4 cup
Vanilla extract-1 tbsp
Baking powder -1/2 tbsp

Silver spoon blue colour- ½ tsp

Method:-

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F/ 180 C
2. In a bowl beat the eggs well. Add sugar and beat well until it dissolves.
3. Now add oil, milk and beat well.
4. In a bowl sieve all purpose flour and baking powder.
5. Gradually add egg mixture to the flour and mix well. Finally add vanilla extract and mix well.
6. Grease the loaf pan with oil / butter and pour the 3/4^th mixture to the pan.
7. To the remaining 1/4^th mixture, mix the silver spoon blue colour .
8. Put the colour mixture on the 3/4^th mixture such that it gives marble effect. Take a tooth pick and try to bring more marble effect by over lapping vanilla mixture to coloured one.
9. Bake it for 50 - 55 minutes or till the tooth pick come out as clean.(Mine took 55 minutes).

Notes:

If you do not want marble effect, simply put the complete batter in the pan to bake.

Any kind of nuts can also be added to the batter to make nutty vanilla cake.

Serving Ideas:

Cut of the slice and heat in microwave for 20 seconds. Serve hot with ice cream.

Enjoy it with nutella, jam or butter.

Each slice can also be made to use tiramisu trifle like here.

Taste:

Soft, spongy and  beautiful.

Disclaimer: I was not paid or told to write positive review. The post is based on my experience and is unbiased.  With thanks to Silver spoon for the review sample

Eggless Vanilla Cupcake With Butter Cream Icing

Vanilla cupcakes are my favorite ones. After many trials and errors I can say this recipe is a sure shot success. Cupcakes will be perfectly soft, moist and spongy.

Ingredients:

(For Cake)

Maida/ All purpose flour - 1 and 1/2 cups (225 gms)

Thick Curd/ Dahi - 1 cup (250 ml)

Castor Sugar - 3/4 cup (200 gms)

Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Baking powder - 1 and 1/4 tsp

Cooking oil - 1/2 cup (125 ml)

Vanilla essence - 1 and 1/2 tsp

(For frosting)

250g unsalted butter, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

600g icing sugar

2 tablespoons milk

Food colour (optional)

Edible decorating balls

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 deg C for 10mins and line cupcake moulds with paper (i made 12 cupcake).

Sieve maida twice and keep aside. Cream sugar and curd until sugar completely dissolves. Add baking powder, baking soda to the creamed mixture and mix well.

Leave aside for 5 minutes and you can see the bubbles appearing. Now add vanilla essence, cooking oil and mix well.

Next, slowly add maida in portions at a time and blend with above ingredients. Beat well with a whisk until creamy and thick.

Bake in preheated oven at 180 degree C for 20 mins, till a fork inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Allow them to cool down for 10mins,

In mean time, In a large bowl, cream together the butter and vanilla. Blend in the sugar, little portion at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the milk, food color and continue mixing until light and fluffy. Keep icing covered until ready to decorate.