Choco-Banana Muffins (Low-fat and eggless)

I generally do not eat banana as such, though I like its flavour. There was a big ripe red banana lying at home and I wanted to bake something with it. In general, red bananas are considered to be the most healthiest of all banana varieties and is rich in iron, when that is combined with the goodness of fibre rich oats, the resultant dish is assured to be super healthy and power packed!

These yummy choco banana muffins are eggless, butterless, do not contain maida/refined flour, low fat with just about a tablespoon of oil, 3-4 tablespoons of sugar and honey for 6 regular sized muffins! The result was soft and absolutely delicious muffins :) Let us get right to the recipe

Eggless Tutti-Fruiti Biscuits (Karachi Bakery Style)

Karachi bakery at Hyderabad is known for its signature rich fruit & nut butter biscuits, that melt in your mouth. These biscuits are divinely delicious and very addictive too. My colleagues who visit Hyderabad, make sure to get these to office and they'd get over in a jiffy.

When I came across this recipe in Fondbites, Bake Along group, I bookmarked them and was so tempted to try them at home. I had time this weekend and tried these goodies. And the result------- No one can believe that these are homemade! The biscuit just melted in my mouth and everyone at home loved it.

The best compliment was when dad asked me "Who got them from Hyderabad?"

Warning: Try hard to control yourself or be prepared to work out hard ;-)

Surprise hearts inside chocolate cake - For the love of baking!

I did this cake as a part of Fondbites - Bake Along group in facebook. 

With Valentine's day round the corner, I wanted to try something special and when this recipe came along my way, I immediately tried it!!

The original recipe used eggs. I have tried an eggless version and wanted a dash of pink in my cake, hence made cute vanilla-strawberry marble hearts for the surprise center. It is a double process of baking but not difficult at all. Try it out and surprise your near and dear ones, in this season of Love!

With this method, we can vary the flavor combinations according to our choice. A chocolate cake with red-velvet heart, Chocolate cake with vanilla heart or vice-versa and sky is limit for the combinations!!

Wishing you all a very sweet and lovable Valentine's Day!

Natural red velvet cupcake with butter cream frosting

Wanna bake something colorful for Christmas and yet keep away from synthetic food colors? Then here is the perfect choice for you! Natural red velvet cupcakes. The secret behind the natural coloring is pureed beetroot! Yes, you read that right. I too was shocked when I came across this recipe for the first time, but trust me, you will never find a hint of the beet taste in the cake. Top it up with an easy butter cream frosting and you'll have your festive cupcakes ready :)

Eggless M&M Cookies | Eggless Gems Biscuits

It's feeling a lot like Christmas!! 

Festive season and holidays, along with fresh home baked goodies! What more do we need to excite a kid or bring back the kid in us?!

I wanted to make some colorful cookies for my little cousins who would be coming home for their vacation. While hunting my refrigerator, I found a pack of M&Ms lying there unopened. It reminded me of a recipe that I had come across in Jeyashriskitchen.com and bookmarked long back. With pretty much simple ingredients and easy method, I tried them right away and yeah the colorful cookies are now baked to perfection and waiting to surprise my little cousins!

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season :)

Check out these cookies too for this special season:

• Saffron-walnut cookies
• Custard powder cookies

Eggless Ginger-Honey-Choco mug cake

Cloudy evening, down with cold, craving for ginger and honey but no mood to spend a long time in the kitchen. What do I do?? Mix up ingredients of my choice and come up with a delicious mug cake!! Yeah time to give myself a treat :) The flavor ginger, added with honey was so soothing to my soar throat. But please do not consider this as a medicine ;) It would taste divine anytime and this is my most favorite mug cake till date!

No maida, no egg, no butter - so this is a healthy treat that is perfect for sudden sweet cravings!! To top it up, it takes a maximum of 5 minutes for preparation and baking (Much lesser time to finish it off ;) )

Recipe source - Priya's easy and tasty recipes.  From the original recipe, I replace carrot with ginger and half the sugar with honey and was absolutely delighted with this wacky experiment!

You might also like to check out the other mug cake recipes that I have tried:

• Red velvet mug cake
• Carrot mug cake with vanilla yogurt icing
• Peanut butter mug cake

Pepper and Garlic flavored eggless scones

After a series of special themed cakes, it was time to take care of myself. Yes, I've been down with cold and cough. This made me crave for pepper, garlic, honey, ginger and cinnamon. But I was in no mood to prepare something exclusive, nor did I just want to satisfy myself with a pepper-garlic rasam or a hot cup of ginger-honey tea. I wanted something special!! That too with a pleasant and cloudy weather.

Here is what I ended up making - Pepper-Garlic flavored scones and Ginger-honey choco mug cake! All done in just half an hour. Sounds good right?! Do try them out and let me know how they turned out to be.

I came across the recipe for scones in litebite.in and modified it according to my taste and ingredients available.

Saffron-Walnut Cookies

All these days I was managing my baking with a convection oven but now I am really excited to have purchased a traditional OTG oven, after consulting my mentor in baking, Mrs.Shyamala Sivaraman. Yippie!! Here is the first recipe that I tried in my new oven. I adapted the recipe from Priya's versatile recipes. The best thing about the recipe is the aroma of saffron, the divine smell just spreads all over the house! 

Christmas fruit cake (Eggless and alcohol free)

Christmas is nearing and here is the cake recipe for the festive season! A fruit cake that is alcohol free and also eggless :) I am a big fan of fruit cakes/plum cakes/tea cakes. Traditionally fruit cakes are made by soaking dry fruits in rum for many days but when I came across this recipe is Maria's menu, I was so excited to try it out and very happy with the way it turned out :) 

The original recipe uses apple juice to soak the fruits, I have replaced it with orange juice. You could use try with either. 

You could also check out my other eggless cake recipes for the holiday season!

• Eggless glossy lemon cake
• Whole-wheat orange cupcakes with caramelized orange zest (Eggless and butterless)
• Eggless vanilla sponge cake in pressure cooker
• Eggless Sticky Date Pudding

Whole-wheat orange jaggery cupcakes with caramelized orange zest (Eggless and butterless)

A rainy evening, warm home-baked cupcakes with a hot cup of tea!! Sounds divine right? Well I just experienced the bliss with my family and I'm very happy to spread and share the cheer with you all!

I have adapted the recipe from two sources. The muffin recipe is from vegrecipesofindia.com and the idea for caramelized orange zest is adapted from Rachel Allen's show - Cake diaries!

The muffins can be had as such, without the glaze or zest and they are low in fat, as I have used only whole-wheat flour, jaggery and olive oil. To make it a little special, you can include the sweet and tangy topping. Try out this delicious recipe and do let me know if you liked it :)

You might also like to try out my other low fat cakes:

• Healthy Banana Walnut Loaf
• Whole-wheat brownies (Eggless and butterless)
• Carrot - wheat flakes cake (Eggless and butterless)
• Ragi Chocolate Cake (Eggless and butterless)

Whole wheat honey walnut cookies (Eggless and butterless)

 

Baking is a great stress buster. The aroma that spreads the house while baking goodies is such a wonderful feeling! Adding to that, if the recipe is a healthy cookie that can be enjoyed guilt-free, then nothing can beat it. Here is one such recipe that can be prepared easily and also in very less amount of time. Whole wheat honey walnut cookies that has no maida(refined flour), is eggless and butterless but absolutely delicious!

After the festive season, many would have received dry-fruits and nuts as gifts, so pick up the walnuts from the pack and start baking these yummy cookies right away!