HappY NeW YeaR

Bye Bye 08, Welcome 09.

The welcoming of 09 seemed pretty quiet and calm around me. I decided that I am not going to come back from work and just sleep on a 31 Dec Night. I wanted to do something exciting. So I baked a Cake.

I know, U might be laughing, thinking...
What is exciting in this?


Here it is: I prepared an "EGG LESS", "Comparatively LOW CAL -> as in, with out butter, healthier", "YUMMY", "CHOCOLATE", CAKE.
I know this sounds good for all those cake lovers, who are watching their calories and want to eat a cake with full heart :-)
(If you are still laughing/giggling reading this. Then don’t read further, it is not required.)

I wanted to share the recipe of the same in this blog.

Ingredients:

1. Dates (Seed Less, Finely chopped) - 1 Cup
2. Milk - 1 and half Cup
3. Maida - 1 and half Cup (I am not sure if there can be a replacement for this)
4. Honey - quarter Cup
5. Sugar - 3/4 Cup (Depends, if you want to reduce this quantity. I was a little generous here. Or use sugar Free as a replacement. )
6. Cocoa Powder - 25 Gms
7. Baking (cooking) Soda - Half t-spoon
8. Baking Powder - 1 and half t-spoon
9. Bru Coffee Powder (optional) - 1 t-spoon (For flavor)
10. Caramel (optional) - 2 t-spoons (For flavor)
11. Cherry (Finely chopped) - 50 gms (your choice for the quantity, More or less)
12. Nuts (Finely chopped) - I Put cashew 10 pieces. (This is also your choice for quantity. As an option you can use Badam also.)
13. Vegetable Oil - 3/4 Cup
14. Pinch of Salt


Preparation time: 40 mins.

Procedure:

1. Put the following in to a Blender:
Dates (Seed Less, Finely chopped) +
Milk +
Honey +
Sugar

And Blend the above until all the ingredients are fine mixture and no longer grainy.
Keep this aside.


2. Put the following into a bowl: (Let the bowl be big enough to home all the ingredients)
Maida +
Cocoa Powder +
Bru Coffee Powder (optional) +
Baking (cooking) Soda +
Baking Powder +
Pinch of Salt

The above mixture must be sewed twice. Throw away the waste.

3. Keeping the remaining in the same bowl. Add the point 1, blended mix into the bowl.
Add the:
Cherry (Finely chopped) +
Nuts (Finely chopped) +
Vegetable Oil +
Caramel (optional)

4. At this point all the ingredients are into the bowl. Now this must be mixed by the cut and fold method. (Yes, we will not beat the mixture as for the normal cakes).i.e. Take a big spoon and fold the mixture until the whole thing looks like a brown paste. (this will be a little loose paste, but the viscosity will be low. I hope you dint mistake the word paste.) This process will take 2 mins.

5. Take your Cake baking tin.
(My brother calls it the - "Bake a cake in Me bowl")

Grease it with Vegetable oil (just a few drops). Sprinkle some Maida on the greased Tin evenly all over.
This makes your baking tin Ready for the cake mixture to be poured in.

6. Pour the mixture into baking tin and spread it evenly.
(Keep your Oven preheated at 160)
Put it into the oven. Bake it for 20 - 25 mins.

7. Remove the cake carefully from the oven.
To check if your cake is done, poke a needle into the cake to see if the needle comes out clean. If it does, then your cake is done!!! (Else keep it in the oven for 5 more mins)

Yuppie!!!!

This cake Ideally serves 10. That is, if you are not a lavish eater...