Showing posts with label Baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baking. Show all posts

Monday, March 14, 2011

Banana-Walnut Muffin



Some recipes can be so easy, you want to refuse to believe they could be so tasty! This is a quick, fool proof recipe, if you follow the measurements and the steps diligently. Have used just one large banana, since I wanted to make only a few muffins to go with the evening tea. And having just baked muffins each time has its own charm.

You can use different fruits to make variety, like blueberries, mango, peach etc. Just add the chopped fruits instead of banana in this recipe.

You need:

Dry Batch:
Flour – ½ Cup
Salt – Pinch (skip if using salted butter)
Baking Powder – 1/3 tsp
Baking Soda – 1/3

Wet Batch:
Butter – 40 grams
Banana – 1 Large (or use 1.5 medium)
Sugar – ¼ Cup
Egg – 1
Vanilla extract – 1 tsp (use fine quality and avoid using essence, it does make a huge difference)
Chopped Walnuts – ¼ Cups or as per your choice

1) Preheat oven to 375° F

2) Melt butter, and add mashed banana (don't make a complete paste, use a fork to mash). Now add sugar, vanilla extract. Break an egg in this mixture and give it a nice whisk, and mix all the ingredients uniformly.

3) Mix all the dry ingredients in a separate bowl and give it a stir with a whisk or a fork. Make sure all the ingredients are mixed uniformly.

4) Add all the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix it well.

5) Grease muffin tray and fill the muffin mix up to ¾ of each cup. If you are using the small muffin cups, bake for 13 min and for large 18 min (check since different ovens take different time). Insert a tooth-pick or a skewer and if comes out clean, muffins are done.



Friday, October 21, 2005

Sugar Free chocolate cake

This was made for Suresh, my B-I-L. Oh such a foodie!

We Need:
1 Cup All purpose flour
1 Teaspoon baking soda
1/8 Teaspoon salt
1/3 cup milk
3 Tablespoon veg oil
3 large eggs(room temperature)
1 egg yolk(room temperature)
2/3 cup sugar free (Equal or equivalent ! :))
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Good quality cocoa powder
Coffee powder can also be added if you like the plum cake (slightly bitterish)feel
Raisins cooked in sugar syrup till plump
Chocolate chips(optional)

Now comes the easiest part..putting all the things together and popping it in the oven..while u mix the ingredients set the oven to 180 C for atleast 20 minutes to preheat

To make it all the more easy for u to essemble .. let me be more precise !

Just split the ingredients in 3 different categories.
bowl 1- 3eggs+1 egg yolk ,sugar and vanilla extract
bowl 2- flour,baking powder,salt,coco powder,coffee powder(sieve through 3-4 time to mix all ingrediens throughly.this also makes it light)
bowl 3- oil,milk and raisins.

1.Whisk contents of bowl 1 on high speed till it is frothy and creamish color
2.Add contents of bowl 2 part by part gently folding it.Don't whisk it hard,
3.Now pour the contents of bowl 3 on the sides and fold in gently.

Dont grease the baking tray. Just pour the batter and this goes straight into the oven. Keep it in the lower half of the rack. This cake can take 20-35 min in a conventional oven, while in a microwave oven it takes only 10 min. Stop baking when the thin top layer is still slightly sticky. Cooling period will be enough to cook it completely. Let it cool for good 1-2 hours. After that all u need it a knife and some secluded place to relish it. Alone !!