Saturday, February 17

Eggless walnut cake with coke

Having tried cakes with the full-proof never go wrong recipes of Rich Chocolate banana and Carrot cake, tried this egg less cake recipe from one of my gujju friend. She is great cook and actually loves cooking. Her recipes never fail me. And the best person to have a easy egg-less recipe is definitely her :)

She told me lots of variations too that can be done in the same recipe ( tried and tested by her). This cake is very heavy and filling to eat and after eating this, we don't feel like eating anything else. I think that's why my kids names it as cursed caked, so funny and weird. They just cant resist the temptation to eat it and after eating this they don't have any appetite left to eat anything else.
And the best thing I like about this cake is, its full of nuts, a healthier option to give to kids.

Ingredients :

All purpose self raising flour 2 cups
Milkmaid 1 tin ( 397 gms)
Butter 125 gm
Baking soda 1 tsp
Khane ka soda 1 tsp
Dry fruits mix 250 gms
Coke  125 ml
Vanilla essence 1 tsp


1. Preheat the oven to 200 degree Celsius
2. Grease a 6 x6 inch baking dish and set aside.
3. Take flour , baking soda and khane ka soda and mix well. Pass it through sieve 3 times so as it mixes completely .
4. Add softened butter in a deep bottom bowl and whisk it with an hand mixer or electric mixer for 2-3 minutes, until soft and frothy
5. Add milkmaid and mix well
6. Add the dry fruits ( I used roasted and chopped walnuts)
7. Add the issuance and finally add coke.
8. Pour the batter in the prepared baking dish and bake for 30-40 minutes, until the skewer comes out clean .
9. Let it be in oven, a standby time of 10-12 minutes and we are done.

You can see how much soft and spongy the cake looks. These were the only slices left in the whole cake, that was left for me to pack and store, rest all was gone directly from the baking dish.

Tips :

1. Keep the nuts of choice  ready , roasted and chopped in advance.
2. We can have variations by using fanta, instead of coke and adding orange Zest , orange essence to have orange cake.


Tuesday, February 13

Rock Cake or Rock Buns

I stumbled upon these when when my DS, who is now in lower secondary, brought a few buns that he baked in school. I was amazed that he can do some baking/ cooking on his own, as at home he rarely steps in kitchen. :P
Okies, so we tried them and liked them instantly. So I asked him to bake a fresh batch at home as well. " Ohh, its very simple recipe, lets make it " . He took out a printout of the recipe with the ingredients and its amount and viola, there was no butter/ margarine in the list. Other ingredients were sure out of proportion as well. :(

But since we loved the buns and he insisted the recipe is simple and need not to be so proportionate, I decided to google the recipe and try it. Upon searching I came to know that all lower secondary kids are taught to make rock buns to demonstrate the rub-in method. There is actually no specifics to the amount / ingredients used. Its depends upon your taste buds how you want to it soft , hard, crunchy, nutty ....
They got there name, as they are rough looking and hence dont soomthen them down.Rock buns are a specific type of pastry, distinguished by the hard, crust-like texture and sweet taste. Good Old Rock Cakes These were once economy cakes, not too expensive, providing cake for large families.


200 gms ( 1 1/3 cup) All purpose flour
75-80 gms Melted Butter
75 gms Sugar
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
1 Egg
75 gms Berries/ Raisins
1 Tbsp Milk 

1tsp Vanilla essence


1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F and grease the baking tray
2. Sieve the flour in a large bowl
3. Pour melted butter over it and with hands rub the butter over the flour. All grains of the flour should be coated with butter and resemble breadcrumbs
4. Add sugar and dried fruit mix.
5. Finally add egg, milk , vanilla essence and mix thoroughly.
6. Using two forks, lift up small portions of the mixture and place on the baking sheet more than an inch apart.
7. Place the tray in the preheated oven for 10-15 minutes until golden brown. Leave it inside oven for about five more minutes, then transfer to a wire tray to cool.

Tips :

1.The buns need to be rough looking, do not smooth them down while placing them in baking tray
2. You may vary the ingredients / proportion , depending upon you like harder or softer buns.


Thursday, January 14

Healthy Oatmeal cookies





Dry Ingredients:
3/4 cup (105 gm) all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon (optional)

1 cup (210 gm) packed brown sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract

3 cups (260 gm) old-fashioned rolled oats
1 cup walnuts or pecans (optional)
1 cup white or dark chocolate chips (optional)


6. Add the dry ingredients and beat until incorporated.






Sunday, February 1

Chiwda: Cornflakes mixture

This is a very simple mixture recipe, which can be made very fast and easily at home. It has minimum of spices , so nothing can go wrong with the recipe. Kids love to eat it, as it simple, less spicy, crunchy and filling. My next door neighbor taught me this, before I moved out, and re-located to a  bit distinct place.( Earlier either she used to pack and bring it or come at my place and make it for me :)  )This assorted mixture is mixed with crunchy bites like roasted peanuts, cashew-nuts, fried beaten rice and cornflakes. What you want to add in your mixture is individuals choice. Here in India, we have assorted styles of mixtures which can be prepared with numerous flavors to choose from; sweet, spicy or tangy.


Raw Corn flakes (Talne wala makka) 2 cuos
Peanuts 3/4 cup
Curry leaves 1/2 cup
Rice flakes , medium (Pooha) 1 1/2 cups
Potato chips, dried (optional)
Coconut dry sliced
Cashew nuts 1/4 cup
Garlic paste
Green chilies

Black pepper powder
Sugar powdered
Salt to taste


  1. In a  heavy bottom pan , add enough oil to deep fry.
  2. One by one deep fry all the ingredients ( Better in this order :cornflakes, flattened rice, sago, peanuts, cashew nuts and  coconut) and take it out in a tissue paper. 
  3. When hot itself, add salt to taste and black pepper.( Later when it cools and extra oil absorbed by tissue paper, it gets tough for the salt to stick to it.)
  4. Turn off the fire and fry curry leaves.
  5. Lastly fry the garlic paste too and add all the fried ingredients to it.
  6. Add sugar. Mix well
  7. Let it cool before storing in a air tight container.
  8. Eat it with a cup of tea, or just like that.

We can add home made sev, murukku too to it
Can add raisins too to this mixture for those having sweet tooth

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