Eggless Choclate Brownies - My 100 th Post

I proposed to bake brownies sometimes before and I have bookmarked few brownies with eggs. So I decided to bake Nita Mehta’s eggless chocolate brownies. I made few alterations to her recipe.

 

Here comes my version of brownies.

Ingredients:

Maida - 1 1/4 cups

Cocoa - 1/4 cup

Sugar - 3/4 cup [ See notes below ]

Baking powder - 1/2 tsp

Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Oil / Butter - 1/4 cup [ I used Oil ]

Water - 1 cup [ See notes below ]

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Method:

1. Boil water. To the hot boiling water add cocoa and stir well so that lumps are removed. Let it cool.

2. Sieve Maida, baking powder, baking soda and salt twice or thrice.

3. In a bowl beat sugar and oil well.

4. Add cocoa mixture and stir well.

5. Add vanilla essence and stir well.

6. Add 2 tbsp of flour at a time and mi well.

7. Stir in all the flour and fold in for 2 min well.

8. Grease a baking tray and bake at 180 C for 25 min.

9. Remove from the oven, cool and cut into squares.

10. If needed, dust with sugar or garnish with frosting.

Notes:

1. I didn't have milk and curd at home to substitute for buttermilk. Hence I boiled water and stirred in cocoa in it. The cake was soft and delicious.

2. Recipe has only 3/4 cup of sugar. This sugar was little less. But if you want some sweeter just add 1/4 cup of sugar along with this one.

Vegan sooji Banana Cake

No maida is used in this cake and this made me to bake this cake. The result was really wonderful and great. Cake was moist and fluffy.

Don't roast the rava/Sooji as it will not absorb moisture after roasting. You can add elaichi powder too.

Ingredients:

Fine Sooji/Rava - 1 cup

Mashed banana - 1 cup

Oil - 1/4 cup

Water - 1/4 cup

Sugar - 1/2 cup

Baking powder - 1/2 tsp

Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Method:

1. If Sooji/Rava is not fine, grind it in mixie.

2. Add water and mix it sooji/Rava so that no lumps are formed.

3. I mashed the banana with baking powder and baking soda and I get a fluffy mixture.

4. Add oil and mix with banana well.

5. Add the Sooji/rava and mix well.

6. Rest it for 10 - 15 min so that Sooji will be soaked.

7. Bake it in preheated oven at 180 deg C for 30 - 35 min.

8. Remove when the cake is browned at top. Or else cake will become hard.

9. Cool and then serve.

Miranda/Orange Cake

As I have miranda in home, i tried with it. I got this recipe from Samsung microwave cookery class.
The cake is very yummy.

Ingredients:

Maida - 1 cup

Butter - 1/2 cup

Condensed milk - 1/2 tin

Sugar - 2 tbsp

Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp

Baking soda - 1/4 tsp

Vanilla essence - 1/4 tsp

Miranda - 100 ml (tinned)

Method:

1. Sieve all the dry ingredients.

2. Powder sugar.

3. Beat butter, condensed milk and sugar well.

4. Add essence and mix well.

5. Add maida and miranda alternately and beat well to get a smooth mixture.

6. Pour into a greased tin/ mould.

7. MW HI for 5 mins.

8. Standing time 5 mins.

Variation:

a). You can add Lehar soda instead of miranda and use pineapple essence instead of vanilla essence.

Paneer/ Cottage Cheese Cake

It is an amazing cake. So i named it as paneer cake as we add vinegar to milk and make paneer which is used here. I added oil instead of butter. If the batter is thick you can add lukewarm milk.

Ingredients:

Maida - 2 Cup

Powdered Sugar - 1 Cup

Baking soda - 1 Tsp

Cooking oil/butter - 1/2 Cup

Milk - 1 Cup

Vinegar - 1/4 Tsp

Vanilla essence - 1 Tsp


Method:

1. Mix all the dry ingredients plain flour, baking soda, coco powder and sugar.

2. Pour oil in the batter and mix it.

3. Boil the milk in a pan and put that vinegar let it be curdle. Then the whey will be separate. Cool it to room temperature.

4. Pour this in the cake batter (the whey and water both).

5. Mix it well and add vanilla essence.

6. Pour this batter in a grease cake mould and bake at 180 C for 20 to 25 min.

Variation:

A). Can add cocoa powder along with plain flour in the proportion of ½ : 1 ½

Microwave banana cake

Ingredients:

Mix Together:

Maida - 1 cup

Cooking soda - ½ tsp (sieve this with atta)

Oil , milk - each ¼ cup

Curd - 1/4 cup(lightly sour)

Brown sugar - ½ cup

Mashed, very ripe bananas -2 medium

Method:

Blend well and transfer to a greased plastic mould/Tupperware.

MW HI for 5 minutes.

Do not open the oven for 10 minutes (resting time).

Remove & unmould.

Serve with tea.