Easy / Simple Cake decoration Tips/Ideas

The base of the cake is eggless chocalte cake. Recipe link below.

http://goeasyrecipes.blogspot.com/2012/07/eggless-chocolate-cake.html

This cake is topped with buttercream frosting, Lets see how to do it.

Butter - 1/2 stick ( room temp)
Powdered sugar/ Icing sugar - 3 1/2 cups
vanilla ess - 1 tsp
milk - 2 tablsp

Add everything in a mixing bowl and beat them for 10 min until you are able to spread it above cake. I used a electric beater and took 10 min to get the correct consistency.

Decoration 1 :

Spread the buttercream frosting above the cake. Cake shd be completely cooled down before applying frosting.

Using various fruits decorate it with your creativity.

Decoration 2 :

Super simple. Spread the frosting above cake as mentioned before.
Take any chocolate like dairy milk/ fivestar (anything). Using a grater just grate above the frosting. As simple as that.

Quick Easy Blueberry muffins

All purpose flour – 1 ½ cup

Egg – 1

Sugar – ½ cup

Milk – ½ cup

Oil (canola/sunflower) – ¼ cup

Baking powder – 1 tablesp

Vanilla ess – 1 tsp

Frozen/ fresh blueberries – 1 cup

Salt – 1 pinch

Method

Mix all the wet ingredients first like egg, milk, vanilla ess, oil along with sugar.

In a separate bowl, add the dry ingredients together like flour (sieve them), baking powder, salt.

Now add the dry to the wet mixture little by little and mix gently.

Don’t over mix, just until everything is incorporated well.

Finally add the blueberries and give a quick mix. Pour into the muffin tray.

Preheat oven to 400 degree F. Bake it for 12 to 15 min until done( toothpick inserted shd come out clean).

Note:

1.Before adding blueberries dust them with flour( see pic below) and then add to the muffin mix. This helps the muffins not to settle down.

2.If you dont have a muffin tray, take a paper muffin cups and fill the mix and arrange them in cookie tray or normal cake pan and bake.

Banana walnut bread

Very simple and easy recipe and tastes good and crunchy because of the walnut.

Follow the banana bread recipe from my previous post ( link below). 

http://goeasyrecipes.blogspot.com/2012/11/banana-bread.html

Follow the steps completely from the above link and finally add chopped walnuts to it and mix before baking it in the oven.

Bake it@ 350 F for. 1 hour. Banana bread takes longer time to bake. Enjoy the aroma of banana while baking....

Oreo eggless cake

Just follow the eggless chocolate cake recipe link below

http://goeasyrecipes.blogspot.com/2012/07/eggless-chocolate-cake.html

Before pouring into the cake tin, crush Oreo biscuits say 10 biscuits and mix it with the cake batter.

Pour it to a cake tin and keep  4 to 5 Oreo biscuits at the top and bake it.

This cake is a small twist to the eggless choc cake and it's a hit.

Banana Bread

 

Ingredients :

Banana - 3 (big)
Butter - 1/4 stick
Egg - 1
Maida/All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Salt - 1 pinch
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Milk - 1 tsp

Method -

Preheat oven 350 Degree F

1.Take a big mixing bowl, add bananas and mash them well.
2.Melt the butter and pour it in the mashed bananas. Mix it.
3.Add sugar and mix.
4.Now add Baking soda, salt,vanilla ess.,egg, milk and mix well.
5.Finally add Flour/Maida and fold them until mixed.
6.Grease a Bread Loaf pan. Pour the mix into it & bake it  for 1 hr.

Upside down Eggless Chocolate Almond Cake

I have made slight modification  to the Egggless Chocolate cake recipe to make it more rich and yummy.

Additional Ingredients :-                

Sliced almonds - 1/2 cup
Light Brown sugar - 1/2 cup
honey 1/4 cup
butter - 1/4 stick

Method :-

Preheat Oven at 350 Degree F

Prepare the cake mix by seeing my earlier post for eggless chocolate cake.

1. Grease the sides of the cake pan.
2.Melt  the butter and pour it in the cake pan. Swirl the pan around so that the bottom of the pan is coated well.
3.Now sprinkle/spread the brown sugar above the butter.Coat it evenly at the bottom. Sprinkling would be better.Not necessary that it should be even.
4. Pour the honey in circular motion above that.
5.Layer the sliced almonds above. Spread it evenly.
6.Pour the prepared cake mix above it.
7. Bake it for 35 to 40 min until a toothpick inserted in the cake portion comes out clean.
8.Once done remove the pan and let it cool for 10 min.
9.Insert the knife at the edges and make sure the sides are released.

10.Invert it in serving plate and keep for 5 mins so that the caramelised almonds settle at the top. Slowly remove the pan from the serving plate.If few almonds stick to the baking pan,you can remove and stick to the top of the cake. If the almond are very sticky to the pan, heat the pan so that it melts the caramelised almonds. Then its easy to take.

This cake is super moist and stays moist too..Enjoy !!!!

Pineapple Cake :-

Ingredients :

Pineapple - 2 cups (crushed with juice)
eggs - 2
All purpose flour - 2 cups
Sugar - 1 cup
Vanilla essence - 1 tblsp




Method :

Preheat oven to 350 degree F

1.Beat the twoo eggs and keep aside.
2. In a mixing bowl sieve all purpose flour,baking powder and add sugar.
3.Now add eggs , vanilla essence and mix well.
4.Finally add the pineapples and fold them well.
5.Grease a cake tin and pour the mixture to it.
6.Bake it for 45 min.

Eggless Chocolate Cake

Ingredients :-
All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
baking soda 1 tsp
salt - a pinch
oil - 5 tblsp
lemon juice - 1 tblsp
cocoa powder - 3 tblsp
vanila essence - 1 tsp
cold water - 1 cup




Method :- Preheat the oven at 350 degree F

1.Take a mixing bowl and all the dry ingredients together.Make sure to seive the flour and cocoa powder well without any lumps.
2.Now start adding the wet ingredients. (oil,vanilla essence,lemon juice,cold water)
3.Blend everthing well using hand/electric blender.
4.Grease a pan and pour the cake mix.
5.Bake it for 30 min.

Tip :-
1.Insert a toothpick and check if it comes out clean,if sticky then keep for few more min and check.

2.If you want you can layer a chocolate frosting and make the cake more delicious.Below photo is with chocolate frosting.I used store bought frosting.

Eggless Banana Cake

Eggless Banana Cake :-

Ingredients:-

Riped Banana -  2 (big size) or 3(small size)
Wheat  flour / All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cup
Butter - 1 stick
sugar - 1/2 cup
baking powder - 1 tsp
baking soda 1 tsp
salt - a pinch
milk - 4 tablesp.
Vanila essence - 1 tspn
Cashews - Optional

Method :-  Preheat the oven to 350 degree F.

1. Mash the bananas ,add vanilla essence to it and keep aside.
2.Mix all the dry ingredients together.(Flour,baking powder,baking soda,salt.
3.Take a mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar together. (Butter should be in room temperature).
4.Add the mashed bananas to the butter sugar mixture.Mix them well.
5.Add the dry ingredients slowly and mix them well without any lumps.
6.Finally add milk and blend them well.Sprinkle cashews at the top which is optional.
7.Greace the baking pan and pour the mix into it and cook it for 45 min.

Tips :-

1.For heathy option,Use wheat flour to make this cake.i made the above cake with wheat flour.Its yummy :)
2.You can reduce the quanity of butter and increase the quantity of milk if you are diet conscious.Add milk atlast until you get the cake mix consistency. It should in semi liquid state.
3.Insert a toothpick and check if it comes out clean,if sticky then keep for few more min and check.
4.To get a soft spongy cake you need to  sieve the flour nicely.