Coffee Chocochip bundt cake

This is the first Bundt cake I tried.  This can also be baked in a loaf tin.
The recipe is from my friend Sai's blog (Geeths Dawat).  It has my favourite flavours of coffee and chocolate in a cake.  Perfect for tea time or anytime.

Ingredients :

Plain flour or self raising flour   :  1 1/2 cup ( used self raising flour)
Baking powder                           :  1/2 tsp
Baking soda                                :  1/4 tsp
Salt                                             : 1/2 tsp
Unsalted butter                           : 1/2 cup (at room temperature)
Vanilla or plain sugar                  : 1 cup    (powdered)
Eggs                                            : 2
Buttermilk                                   : 100 ml  ( refer Notes)
Vanilla Essence                           : 1 tsp
Instant Coffee pwd                      : 1 tsp  ( Nescafe)
Warm water                                 : 1 tsp
Chocolate Chips                          : 1/4 cup
Cinnamom pow                           : 1 tsp  (optional)

Procedure :

1.  Preheat oven 10170 deg C.
2.  Grease and flour a six cup bundt pan or prepare a baking tin.
3.  Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
4.  Mix together instant coffee powder and warm water and keep aside.
5.  Cream together butter and sugar.  beat in the eggs one at a time, followed by vanilla essence and
     coffee mixture.
6.  Add flour and buttermilk in 3 lots and beat on low speed.
7.  Mix the chocolate chips with a tsp of flour and fold into the mixture.
     Mix in the cinnamom powder.
8.  Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 50 - 60 minutes or till done.



Notes :  
to make100 ml  buttermilk : Mix  50 ml milk and 50 ml curd, till smooth.

German Chocolate Cake

Got this recipe from one of my fb food groups. (Rajeshwari Annamalai ,Ovenderful Mom Bakers Community) This is a healthy whole wheat recipe.  it is also an eggless cake recipe.  The cake is super soft and delicious and is very easy to make.

Ingredients

whole wheat flour  : 1 1/2 cups

cocoa pwd              : 1/4 cup

baking soda            : 1tsp

caster sugar            : 1 cup 

(or cane sugar)

oil                           : 1/3 cup

water                       : 1 cup

vinegar                    : 1 tsp (used Apple cider vinegar)

vanilla                     : 1 tsp

salt                           : 1 pinch (did not use)

Procedure  :

1.   Sieve flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt thrice.

2.   Dissolve sugar in water and add vinegar.

3.   Mix oil and vanilla.

4.   Preheat oven at 180 deg and prepare a cake tin.

5.   Add flour mixture to the oil sugar solution and combine till smooth.

6.   pour the cake batter into ṭhe prepared tin and bake for 40 min or so.

Frosting :

milk                   1 cup

coconut milk     1/3 cup

corn flour          1/3 cup

caster sugar       1/2 cup

vanilla               1 tsp

coconut flakes   1 3/4 cup

chopped walnuts     3/4 cup ( or pecans)

procedure :

1.  mix all ingredients except coconut and walnuts. there should be no lumps.

2. boil till it thickens ( takes a few minutes).

3. Stir in coconut and walnuts.

4. Allow to cool ( lukewarm).

5. Spread evenly on cake.

Oreo Nutella bites

This is from Rekha Vishwanath Nayak's blog.

Nutella : 1 cup
eggs 2
 maida 10 tbsp
salt 1/4 tsp
oreos 12
vanilla 1 tsp
preheat oven to 180 deg
Beat eggs, add flour, nuttella and salt and essence. mix well.

use a scoop and spoon 2tsp of batter into ramekins or muffin moulds.  place an oreo and top with batter.  bake for 12 -1 3 minutes. ( can micro for 4 minutes).  This batch was baked.
I could make only 6 !!

Carrot walnut cake

This is one of my earliest cakes , recipe. Is from the book 'vegetarian menus'. 

Again a simple and easy cake and delicious too ! 

Ingredients : 

eggs : 2

oil 3/4 cup ( i used 2/3 cup)

sugar 1 cup ( or less)

vanilla  : 1/2 tsp

flour  1 cup

soda 1 tsp

carrots grated fine 1 1/2 cup

chopped walnuts 1/2 cup

Method

1.  Beat eggs, oil and sugar

2.  add the other ingredients and fold in.

3.  bake at 180 deg for 40- 45  minutes till done.

NOTE : i added 2 tsps of cocoa pwd. and reduced the oil to 2/3 cup