Simple and Easy Eggless Cake

Ingredients:

• Maida (Flour) - 2 1/2 cups
• Butter or Ghee - 3 tablespoons
• Milk - 1 cup (room temperature)
• Curds (Yogurt) - 1 cup
• Seedless Dates - 1 cup, finely chopped and mixed with 1 tablespoon flour
• Baking powder - 2 level tablespoon
• Powdered Sugar - 2 cups
• Walnuts, Aprictos - 1 cup
• Vanilla essence - 2 teaspoon

Method:

Powder sugar. Add butter and blend for 2 minutes. Add milk at room temperature and blend for a secong. Add curd and blend for another minute. Add dates, vanilla essence and blend for 2 seconds. Add the sifted maida and baking powder mix and just blend to mix together.

Pour into a well greased cake pan and shake gently. Top that with chopped walnuts and apricots. Bake in a heated oven at 190 degrees C for about 40 minutes.

When a nice smell starts coming in, insert a sharp knife into the cake; if the knife comes out in one smooth motion without sticking, this means your cake is ready.

(Thanks to Vijaya and Manisha for help in ingredients)

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Eggless Orange Cake

Ingredients

• Powdered Sugar - 2 tumbler (very fine powder)
• Milk - 1 cup
• Maida - 3 cups
• Refined Oil - 1/2 cup
• Vanilla Essence - a few drops
• Baking Powder - 1 tablespoon
• Baking Soda - 1/4 teaspoons
• Butter - 4 tablespoons (full)
• Orange- 1

Method:

Sieve the maida with baking powder and baking soda atleast 4 times. Take the juice of orange do not add water to this juice. Take oil, sugar, butter and beat it well with hand till it becomes light and fluffy. To this mixture alternate maida and juice (cut and fold motion).

If the juice is over start adding milk. When the mixture is done it falls in folds.You can add cold water if needed. Pour it in a greased baking dish and bake.

To make this cake in a cooker:

Baking in a Cooker: Heat the cooker for sometime. Keep the cake dish inside. Do not cover it and cover the cooker with some other lid. Keep the flame sim and bake for 1 hour 5-15 mts.

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Eggless Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 cup flour
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup cold water
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tsp vinegar

Method:

Preheat oven to 375°F.Spray a small baking pan (8×12) with vegetable spray or Baker’s Joy.Combine dry ingredients directly in the pan. Mix all the wet ingredients. In a small bowl, combine remaining ingredients leaving out the vinegar until the final step.

Combine wet and dry ingredients, stirring together in pan until well combined. Stir in the vinegar rapidly and immediately place pan into preheated oven and bake for 25 to 30 min.

Optional: You can stir in 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips just before baking to make a richer cake with melted chocolate bits or swirls.

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