Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake 3 ~ How to make Eggless Fruit Cake

Merry Christmas to all my readers!

I am so glad that I have a perfect eggless Christmas cake to share.

I was supposed to post on the Christmas eve, however as things would always be, I was procrastinating baking this cake. I have been thinking I must bake a fruit cake again this time as I have been doing since couple of years. I was debating whether I should use condensed milk or simply make do with fruits and butter. Since this cake has to be dense, you really don't have to bother about how fluffy the cake raises. I started very late in the morning, along with my regular cooking. So I had completed majority of cooking done, before setting out to make this cake.

Thinking I could make use of my multitasking skill to hilt, I went ahead melting the sugar along with the nuts. As the Tomato Kurma or the Methi Dal was getting done, I had a quick glance at the pan that had sugar and dry fruits mix cooling. To my horror, the sugar simply got struck to the bottom along with the fruits. Well there are certain things you should really give full attention! I decided to melt it along with butter. This recipe is something that I did as I was making it. It's a mix of what I thought could put together. I was elated with Amma said this was the best cake she has tasted till date. What more can I ask!

Christmas Cakes from previous years

• Eggless Fruit Cake 1
• Eggless Butterless Rum Fruit Cake 2 
• Microwave Eggless Chocolate Cake
• Carrot Cake | Eggless Carrot Cake Recipe

 

Christmas Fruit Cake

Ingredients Needed:

Flour - 1 & 1/4 cup
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
Cooking Soda - 1/2 tsp
Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup
Granulated Sugar - 1/2 cup
Orange Juice - 1/2 cup
Warm water - 2 tbsp
Butter - 1/2 cup
Mixed Fruit Jam - 1 tbsp full
Salt a small pinch

Dry Fruits and Nuts


Tutti Fruity - 2 tbsp
Raisins - 2 tbsp
Almonds - 10 nos
Cashew nut - 5 whole
Cranberry - 1 tbsp
Pistachio - 2 tsp

Spice Mix
Cinnamon powder - 1/4 tsp
Nutmeg powder - 1/4 tsp
Fennel powder - 1/4 tsp

Melt the brown sugar and granulated sugar over slow flame, add the chopped nuts and dried fruits, cook for 10 mins in simmer. Then add butter and cook for 5 mins.

Shift the flour with baking powder and cooking soda, salt. Add the melted sugar and dry fruit mix. Blend everything together, add the jam and orange juice.

Check the consistency, if it's not of dropping consistency, add the warm water by spoon.

Pre heat the oven at 185 C, pour the batter in a grease cake pan and bake at 185 C for 35 Mins.

Note:

I first baked for 15 mins, increased by 10 mins interval. You can easily bake first for 25 mins, depending on the done ness you can increase. Since this has more moisture, you will end up baking for more mins.

This cake is not your typical dry fruit cake, rather it's rich and crumbly. Since the sugar got caramelized more than expected, it was little bit chewy but that again added to the whole fun.


Check out the bloggers doing the Bakeathon: Champa, Sumana Deepak, Priya Suresh, Preeti Deo and Jayasri Ravi

Eggless Dates Walnut Bundt Cake ~ Step by Step

When you are baking with two or three different recipes in mind, it is always better to bake them as the same time. So when I decide to bake cookies, I check and collect at least three varieties and same goes to the cakes as well. The only problem is, I get so tired and blogged down, that I ultimately give up on presenting the recipes in the best light. So you will see the same table cloth or napkin in posts that follow back to back. 

And any time of the day, the one spot that always works out best is the dining table. So I guess many of you are so familiar with my spot. So unless I happen to get another spot, this would continue for many more. As I was saying, I bake about three different cakes this sunday and everything turned out so well. Amma loved all the three, while Pineapple and the other one was my favorite. Amma liked this Dates cake the best of all three. Hubby dear was licking the pineapple clean.

Deciding on the baking tray was another thing. I finally decided on this bundt tray and I think this batter is best suited for this mold. It really turned out so good.

Eggless Dates Walnut Bundt Cake

Ingredients Needed:

All purpose flour - 1 & 1/4 cup
Dates, seedless puree - 20
Milk - 1/2 cup
Condensed Milk - 1/2 tin
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Cooking Soda - 1/4 tsp
Walnuts - 1 tbsp

How to make the cake

In a pan, boil the milk along with dates. Allow to cool and make a puree.

In a bowl, take the dates puree and beat with condensed milk. Add the flour and finally the baking powder and soda. Mix in the chopped walnuts and pour into a prepared bundt tray.

Bake in a pre heated oven at 185 C for 15 - 17 mins or till a knife comes out clean when inserted.

Dust with icing sugar.

This stays good at room temperature for couple of days.

Serve warm.

Check out the bloggers doing the Bakeathon: Champa, Sumana Deepak, Priya Suresh, Veena Krishnakumar, Preeti Deo and Jayasri Ravi

Eggless Carrot Cake Recipe 2 | How to bake Carrot Cake Eggless ~ Step by Step

Here's another version of Carrot Cake, eggless version. Completely different from what I have already baked. I was happy to note that I had baked it a year back n Christmas eve. So I must remember something unique has to be baked again this year round. I somehow like making new sentiments and following up with it.

The cake was having the right crumble, very mild yet sufficient sweetness not to require any frosting over it. In fact I think if I am to bake these as muffins, it would be a perfect breakfast. The original recipe used wheat flour, I simply baked with all purpose flour, wanting to experiment at a later stage. I saw my honey bottle still unused for a while, so I was glad that I ended up using it in these dishes.

After tasting this cake I realised why walnuts are always used in a brownie. The bitter aftertaste disappears after being baked and it gives a perfect nut taste. My only wee bit of concern was the final butter taste over the crust. Must see how to reduce that.

Exams are going to begin this week for the kids, so I have to prepare for the project work myself. I have given up asking why kids are given projects that makes the parent end up doing. I realized that this is part of educational system, wherein the parent is forced to remember and understand the hardship of studying and doing all this work. After so many years, we may have forgotten the perils of staying up late to complete a project. So why not go through it again, for our kids just to relive the horrors. I end up being so strung, thinking I forgot something in the process. Anyway hopefully they will completely taken the work soon. Meanwhile you can enjoy this cake.

I had selected this cake for being part of the Carrot Dishes that I was doing for Blogging Marathon this week. I decided I can afford to miss out a baked dish from Bake a thon!

Preparation Time : 15 mins
Baking Time : 15 mins at 185 C

Eggless Carrot Cake

Ingredients Needed:

All purpose flour - 1 cup
Carrots, grated - 1 cup
Powdered Sugar - 1/2 cup
Raisins - handful
Honey - 3 tsp
Cinnamon powder - 1/2 tsp
Chopped walnuts - 1 tbsp
Water - 1/2 cup
Butter - 2 tbsp
Baking Soda - 1 tsp

How to bake Carrot Cake

Wash and grate the carrots.

In a bowl, take the butter and cream it along with sugar, then add the cinnamon powder.

Next goes the nuts and honey. Mix well. Finally add the carrots and the slowly add the flour.

After mixing everything, add the hot water to get the dropping consistency. Finally add the baking soda and gently fold everything in.

Pre heat the oven at 185 C and bake for 15 mins and let it stand for few mins.

As I said the cake had the prefect crumble and had just enough sweetness as not to overload you. I would surely be baking this again and would also want to try with wheat flour.
 
Check out the bloggers doing the Bakeathon: Champa, Sumana Deepak, Priya Suresh, Veena Krishnakumar, Preeti Deo and Jayasri Ravi

Carrot Cake | Eggless Carrot Cake Recipe | Step by Step Recipe

Merry Christmas to all my readers!

Since it's holidays for the kids, I wanted to bake something different than the usual chocolate versions. But trust my boys to insist only on chocolates. So to get them off my back, I made another version of my eggless chocolate cake first and ended up baking two times as the first batch disappeared before I could even blink!

After the second batch saited their love for chocolate cake, they let me get on with the baking I had in mind. I have been wanting to bake a carrot cake for a long time. Couple of days back I read this recipe in a book and saw that it is very similar to the basic condensed milk cake that I bake.

Everytime I have excess carrots on hand I always think I should bake a carrot cake, but never come around baking it. Years back, when we have excess carrots it was always carrot halwa that was made. When I started using microwave, the entire process became even simpler with the microwave version.

Now we hardly make carrot halwa because of the calories. If the kids ate sweet, I could at least make for them. However they hardly touch a sweet. They do love cakes, only chocolate at that. Anyway I went ahead making a cake with carrots just at least to see if it tastes.

Eggless Carrot Cake

 Step by Step Picture Recipe

Wash, scrape and trim the ends.

Grate enough carrots to make 2 cups.

Dust with 2 tbsp flour

Mix everything together.

Sieve the flour along with baking powder, baking soda and corn flour.

Measure out soft butter to a cup

Take the soft butter and 1/2 tin condensed milk in a bowl.

Cream everything together.

Add 2 -3 tbsp castor sugar and cream it again.

Add the flour mix to the creamed butter

Mix everything together.

Sliver handful of almonds

Grease and dust a 9 x 5 baking tray, sprinkle the almond slivers over it.

Gradually mix in the carrot mix to the creamed butter and blend everything together.

Add 1/2 cup milk and blend to a semi pouring consistency.

Pour into the prepped tray.

Pat it down on the counter top to make sure the batter settles well. Meanwhile pre heat the oven at 170 degree C

Bake first at 170 degree C for 17 mins, then reduce to 140 Degree and bake for 15 mins.

Insert a sharp knife in the center to check if it is done.

Allow to cool over the rack and then slice

Since the cake is not that sweet you can dust icing sugar on top.

Eggless Carrot Cake

Carrot, grated - 2 cups
All purpose flour - 1 & 1/2 cups
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Condensed Milk - 1/ 2 tin
Castor Sugar - 3 tbsp
Milk - 1/2 cup
Corn Flour - 1 tbsp
Butter - 3/4 cup
Flour - 2 tbsp for coating carrot
Almond Slivers - Handful

How to make Carrot Cake

Wash, scrape and trim the ends. Grate enough carrots to make 2 cups. Then dust with 2 tbsp flour and mix everything together.

In another bowl, sieve the flour along with baking powder, baking soda and corn flour twice. Keep it aside.

In a mixing bowl, measure out a cup of soft butter and add 1/2 tin condensed milk and icing sugar. Cream everything together.

Once the butter is creamed well, add the flour mix and combine everything well. Now add the grated carrots and mix everything, making sure you don't beat it too much. Add 1/2 cup milk and blend to a semi pouring consistency.

Dust a greased baking tray and sprinkle almond slivers.

Pre heat the oven at 170 C.

Pour the batter into the prepped tray, tap on the counter to make sure the batter spreads evenly.

Bake first at 170 degree C for 17 mins, then reduce to 140 Degree and bake for 15 mins.

Insert a sharp knife in the center to check if it is done.

Allow to cool over the rack and then slice

Since the cake is not that sweet you can dust icing sugar on top.

Other Eggless Cakes

This goes for my Snack Mela, which is on till the end of the month.