Low fat Eggless Cake

To get off the mark, Kuchh meetha hojaye !

I baked this cake about 4 months ago for my son's 2nd birthday. I was just too lazy to blog it then. Anyways, better late than never.

Now, here's the story. I had always been looking for the perfect eggless cake with the right texture and which is low fat too. I found my eureka moment when I stumbled upon this blog by Sailaja. It is a no-frills, simple cake that bakes in a jiffy. I followed Sailaja's recipe to the t and then added my decorations. For the sake of completeness, the recipe is as follows -

Preparation Time : 10 min                                                              
Baking Time : 35 min

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup curd
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/4 tsps baking powder
1/2 cup oil
1 tsp vanilla essence

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 200C/390F for 10 min. Grease and flour an 8"-9" baking pan.
2. Cream the sugar and curd till the sugar dissolves. Add baking soda and baking powder to this and leave it for 3 minutes. After sometime, bubbles will form in the mixture.
3. Add oil and vanilla essence and mix properly.
4. Add in the flour little by little mixing continuously so that we get a uniform homogeneous mixture.
5. Pour in the batter into an 8" round baking pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 10 min at 200C/390F.     
6. Then reduce temperature to 175C/350F and bake for 20 min. To test the doneness, prick a toothpick into the cake and it should come out clean. Bake for some more time if the toothpick has some wet cake ingredients stuck to it.
7. Overturn the cake on to a cooling rack and let it cool completely.

I baked 2 of these cakes and made a layered cake. For the decoration, I used store bought Pillsbury vanilla frosting. I applied a bit of frosting between the 2 cakes and the rest all around the cake. For the spiral shape, I just poured Hershey's chocolate syrup from the bottle moving my hand in a spiral motion.

The cake turned out soft and yummy. All of us enjoyed it. Hope you would too.

About my kitchen

Hi there !

Welcome to my kitchen !

I hope you enjoy browsing through  my cookbook. Please do leave behind your comments. I would love to  hear... um.. err.. read (lol!)  from you.

I am just the cook next door as anyone else. And here I have an online cooking blog as thousands of others out there. But I still consider my cookbook is unique in that it basically consists of a blend of Oriya(from a state named Orissa in East India) and Andhra(from a state named Andhra Pradesh in South India) cuisine. I belong to a small community of people who are originally from places on the Andhra-Orissa border. Some refer to this community as Sishti-Karnalu and some prefer to call them Telugu-Patnaik. Our customs and traditions are a happy amalgamation of those prevalent on both sides of the border. Quite naturally, people adopt and adapt to customs depending on where they live. Probably, thats how I am as happy with a dalma and santula as I am with a sambar or rasam and  a spicy hot curry. 

Having said that, I have been lucky (because of our occupations) to have had the opportunity to taste all kinds of cuisines from all over the world. So, I do experiment once in a while with my husband as my guinea pig. The experimental results range from absolute disasters to okie-okie to fantastic. I add the fantastic ones to this cookbook.

Now, here we are with a collection of the everyday recipes that is cooked in any kitchen passed through generations but done my way. It is my belief that every recipe turns out in a special way that is unique to your magic hands. So even if the ingredients are the same in two dishes, it would taste different when made by two different people. This is also a collection of all those experiments referred from other blogs(I have been and want to stay honest to all the borrowed recipes) that became an instant hit in my kitchen. This is a collection of some recipes that I think are my own inventions !!

I would be glad if my blog helps brings in a new taste into your kitchen. I hope this cookbook will be something that I can pass on to my son and daugter some 20-30 years later. I am excited about starting this blog and hope I can keep the momentum going on forever...

Sooo... Keep reading ! Keep cooking ! Keep blogging ! Keep smiling ! 

Yours truly