Thursday, May 19, 2011

Low Fat Yogurt cake (Eggless) - Easy and Tasty



Ingredients:

1 cup All purpose flour

3/4 cup sugar

1 cup yogurt (low fat)

2 tbsp unsalted butter (at room temperature)

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla


Here's what you need to do


  • Preheat the oven to 350 Deg F.Grease the baking dish with olive oil or butter.
  • Sieve the Flour and baking soda thrice.
  • Cream the butter and sugar till light and fluffy.Add Vanilla and mix.
  • Beat the yogurt and add it to the sugar butter mixture.
  • Add the flour a few tbsp at a time and fold it gently in the wet mixture.
  • Pour in the greased dish and bake for 40 mins or until the toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center of the cake.
  • Cool and slice it.Enjoy with a cup of coffee.

Note:
If the consistency of the yogurt is very thick the batter will be thick and the cake will be dense. Add 2 tbsp of water to the batter in this case.


For variation: 

  • You could add nuts and/or tutti frutti to this cake.
  • Reduce the yogurt to 3/4 cup and add 1/4 cup lemon juice and 1 tbsp of  lemon zest instead to make it a lemon yogurt cake.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Microwave Parle-G Biscuit cake



Ingredients:

 2 packets Parle-G glucose biscuits (total 30 biscuits )

  1 tbsp coco powder.

 
4-5 tbsp sugar. (Adjust according to your taste)


 1 tsp baking powder.

 1 cup milk (at room temp)

 1 tsp vanilla 


2 tbsp unsalted butter or  clarified butter.


Here's  what you need to do

  • Grind glucose biscuits into a fine powder.
  • Mix coco powder, baking powder and the biscuit powder.
  • Sieve the above mixture thrice.
  • Cream the butter and sugar well.Add Vanilla and mix.
  • Mix the dry ingredients the sugar butter mixture.
  • Slowly incorporate the milk to form a smooth batter.
  • Grease a microwave safe bowl and pour the above mixture and microwave the above mixture for 5 mins on full power.Let it stand for another 2 mins in the microwave.
  • When it cools down slice it in pieces and enjoy.
Note:
  • You can use 15 Parle-G biscuit and 15 any brand chocolate biscuits like Hide and seek,Oreo,Bourbon and skip the cocoa powder.