Eggless Banana Cake

Hi Friends, I am back with another eggless cake, so this weekend after a long time raj would like to have a cake and I was thinking what to do then I found the ripened bananas in my kitchen and immediately started searching out for recipes online and finally found one and tested the below version with few modification to the original version. Here goes the recipe:

Ingredients:

· Banana’s – 3 or 4 mashed

· Maida/All-purpose Flour – 2 cups

· Sugar- 1 cup

· Butter – 1 cup

· Soda -1/2 tsp

· Baking powder – 1 tsp

· Vanilla extract – 1 tsp

· Elaichi powder -1 tsp

· Cinnamon powder – 1 tsp

· Milk – ½ cup

Method:

·  Preheat the oven at 370^o degrees

·  Mix the allpurposeflour, soda, baking powder, elachi powder, cinnamon powder and sieve them together.

·  In a mixer mash the bananas, put the sugar and butter a mix it for 1 min to get into a smooth paste.

· Slowly add the milk into the allpurposeflour mixture and mix them well to form into a smooth mixture.

· Now mix the mashed bananas mixture into the milk and allpurposeflour mixture.

· Just fold all the ingredients in one direction.

· Put the whole batter in a greased cake pan and put some almonds/raisins on the top of it and bake it in the oven for 20-25 min.

· Check with a knife or with a toothpick in the centre and if it comes out clean the cake is baked perfectly, otherwise, bake it for another 5 – 10 min and check it out once again.

· When it is baked, remove and let it cool for sometime and then cut it and serve it.

Vanilla Cookies

Hi Friends , after a long time i thought of trying some simple eggless cookies and started searching for reciepes .finally i came thru Ashwini's blog , which is a wonderful blog and one of the blogs i follow regularly. In her blog i found about this valentine heart cookies and i tried those and it really have turned out very well.Thanks to Ashwini for sharing this reciepe.if u still have any doubts on this reciepe u can always check Ashwini's blog .so the reciepe goes like this: 




Ingredients:

• All-purpose flour / Maida – 2 cups
• Unsalted butter/Clarified Ghee – 2/3 cup
• Fine powdered sugar – 1 cup
• Vanilla extract – 1 tsp (good quality one is preferred)

Method:

• Pre-Heat the oven to 350^o F 
• In a large bowl, sift together the flour, butter and rub the butter with your hands so that it gets mixed into the flour without any lumps.
• Add Sugar and vanilla extract and knead the dough to form a firm ball.
• Place the dough on a lightly floured surface and roll the dough like a chapathi but with 1- inch thickness.
• Now cut the cookie dough in whatever shape you want and place them on a lightly greased baking sheet/ wax paper with butter.
• Place them in the oven for 10- 15 min and remove them.
• Let them cool on a rack and sprinkle the sugar dusting on those cookies.
• Place them in a air –tight container for a longer period . 

Eggless Orange Cake

Ingredients:

•  All-purpose flour/Maida – 2 cups 
• Granulated sugar – ¾th  cup (finely powdered)
• Baking soda – 1 tsp 
• Baking powder- ½ tsp 
• unsweetened orange juice – 2 cups ( fresh is better)
• 1 teaspoon (5ml) grated orange zest
• Vegetable Oil – 1/3 cup

 Method :

•  Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
• In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking soda, and baking powder until well mixed. All at once, add the orange juice, vegetable oil, and orange rind/zest.
• Stir just enough to combine the ingredients, then immediately pour into the greased baking pans.
• Bake for 35 to 40 minutes check with a toothpick poked into the middle of the batter and see whether it comes out clean, and it is lightly browned on top.
• Cool completely on a cooler rack .

Note : I have not done any icing or dusting on it . you can do the sugar powder dusting or the icing.

Egg less Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate chip cookies are one of the Americas most famous cookies. Recently when we went to Trader Joes shop we got a small packet of semi sweet chocolate chips and cocoa powder .so just thought of trying these cookies and eggless chocolate cake. After seeing many recipes I finally have tested the below version and giving you the recipe.

Ingredients:

· All-purpose-flour – 2 cups

· Baking powder – 1 tsp

· Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp

· Semi –sweet Chocolate chips -1 tbsp

· Cocoa powder – ¼   tbsp (I used Hershey’s)

· Unsalted butter – ½ cup

· Granulated Sugar – 1 cup

Method:

· Preheat the oven to 350^o F

· Beat the butter and sugar in a mixer to form a creamy mixture.

· Take a large bowl and add the flour, cocoa powder, Vanilla essence, baking powder, chocolate chips and the creamy mixture and mix well all the ingredients.

· Knead the dough to a firm mixture.

· Now take the dough and prepare small lemon sized balls out of it.

· Using palm of the hand, flatten each cookie to ½ inch thickness and place them on a slightly greased cookie sheet with each one 3 inches apart.

· Bake the cookies for 25 min -30 min until they become lightly brown in colour. (Time varies from oven to oven).

· Remove from oven; let them cool on a wire rack.

Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients :

• Butter -3/4 cup

• Sugar- 11/2 cup

• Water-1/4 cup

• Baking soda -1/2 tsp

• Dry fruits – hand ful .

• Vanilla extract -1tsp

• Oatmeal – 3 cups [I used quaker oats]

• All –purpose flour /Maida – 2 cups

• Parchment / wax /cookie sheet -1

Method :

• Grind the butter and sugar. Add water and vanilla. Blend to form a cream.

• Combine baking soda, oatmeal and flour. Mix well. Add to above ingredients.

• Mix all the dry fruits/nuts into that mixture.

• Take any shape or take a measuring spoon and pour the mixture of cookie into that and     drop it on a cookie sheet.

• Take a greased wax paper and drop the cookie mixture on to it.

• Bake at 350°F for 20- 25 minutes[In the middle check once for the rawness. Time varies from oven to oven , so be careful.

• After removing from oven . let them cool on a cooling grid for 10 mts.

• Enjoy the Cookies.