Orange Cinnamon Cake

 Orange Cinnamon Cake

2021, a year full of intense turbulence is finally approaching its end in less than a month. The excitement of a hopefully more positive year is accompanied by the festive vibes of Christmas and celebrations and so December becomes the perfect month for inspiration and home-baked cakes. This month therefore felt like the perfect opportunity to inspire myself and to attempt new dishes. I have always shared a passion for baking and so with winter and its festivities around the corner, I decided to experiment with the flavour of orange, cinnamon and drizzled chocolate.

Christmas has a very fruity and celebratory vibe attached to it, so what better flavour to enjoy Christmas with, than the flavour of orange and cinnamon. With that in mind, I tried out this recipe that provides the intoxicating tangy flavour of oranges, slight sweet taste of cinnamon and the softness of a delicious cake baked right. I decided to make the dish a healthier alternative by adding a lot of almonds and can be used to trick our kids into eating dry fruits and add to their nutrition. I also decided to drizzle chocolate over the cake, since it provides a delicious contrast to the tangy flavour and adds to the festive look of December. This recipe is therefore a simple process that guarantees a warm cake filled with the flavour of home and celebration and can be used to have a homemade spectacular Christmas Eve with your family.

Preparation time : 30 min

Baking Time : 45 min

Ingredients :  

• All purpose flour 1 1/2 Cup
• Almond flour 1 cup (simply grinned in a mixer)
• Butter salted 110 gm
• Yogurt 200 gm
• Sugar 3/4 cup (I used brown sugar)
• Baking powder 1tbs
• Baking soda 1 tbs 
• Cinnamon powder 1 ts
• lemon zest 1 tbs or according to taste
• Orange juice 1 cup plus 1/2 cup if extra is needed
• Almond flakes 2 tablespoon

Procedure : 

• Take some butter, keep it aside for some time so that it is at room temperature 
• Take fresh oranges, wash them nicely with the help of grater or scraper, take its zest and keep aside
• Now take out orange juice from fresh oranges and keep aside 
• Take all other ingredients according to the measurements and keep aside
• Now preheat the oven for 15 to 20 minutes at 180 degree
• Take a cake tin, grease it nicely and keep aside
• Take all the dry ingredients-  all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon powder sieve all together nicely. now add almond powder to this and keep aside.
• Lets start preparing our cake batter
• In a bowl take butter and sugar and mix it well till it is creamy and light in texture 

• Now add yogurt to the mixture mix well 

• Now add orange zest and a cup of Orange juice and mix it nicely 

• Next slowly slowly add dry ingredients to the mixture. Mix it well with cut and food method 

• Once the batter is done with a smooth consistency . Transfer the batter into cake tin and knock it onto the kitchen counter few times so that the batter is evenly distributed 

• Bake the cake on 180 c for 40 to 50 minuets . As required 

• Once the cake is baked take a skewer test. If it is clean, it means the cake is done 
• Now invert it on an oven rack and rest it for 30 minutes 

• Once cake is cooled, sprinkle some icing sugar on it and drizzle chocolate syrup and enjoy 

As you all are aware, we are a group of bloggers, we work together in a group know as Healthy Wealthy Cuisines , and for this month we had decided that "#WinterCakeBake" would be the perfect theme to end this year with.

Tips : 

• You can have normal sugar in case brown sugar is not available
• If yogurt is not available take a normal curd but remove the excess water from it.
• If you feel cake batter is quite thick add little bit of milk in it

Eggless Chocolate Cake

Eggless Chocolate Cake

Chocolate cake all time popular dessert. This can be use as a  basic recipe in lot many desserts.

Preparation Time : 10 Min

Cooking Time : 25 -30 Min

Ingredients :

• 1 1/4 Cup self-raising flour or Maida
• 1/2 Cup butter at room temperature 
• 1 Can (400 gram) condensed milk
• 1 Teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 Teaspoon sada-bi-carb
• 2 Tablespoon coco powder
• Few drops of vanilla essence

Procedure :

• First of all Sieve The Flour, Coco powder, baking powder and Soda-bi-carb together and keep it aside

• Now in a bowl take butter, condensed milk and vanilla essence and mix it well

• Now slowly slowly add Flour mixture to this and fold it gently 

• Mix it well, you will get a cake batter in dropping consistency. In case batter is hard just add 2 tablespoon of milk in it
• Take a baking dish grease and dust it and pour the cake mixture into it

• Now place the dish in preheated oven for 20 -25 minutes at 180 degree c or till it is cooked
• As the cake leave the sides you can invert it on plate 

• Keep it aside, you can enjoy it like this only or you can add some toppings according to your taste

Rasgulla Pops

Rasgulla Pops

Whenever we remember our childhood one of the things which comes to our mind is lollipops ..... So just want to do something special for my daughter she loves "Chhenna Rasgullas" and chocolate so try to serve her both together ...... And result was awesome

Preparation Time : 10 min

Cooking Time : 0 min

Setting Time : 20 to 30 min



Ingredients :

• 10 to 12 Small Rasgullas
• 10 to 12 Lollipop sticks
• 1/2 Cup Hershey's chocolate syrup
• 2 Tablespoon crushed almonds
• 2 Tablespoon dried grated coconut powder

Procedure :

• Take small rasgullas in a bowl. Slowly put a lollipop stick in this
• Now in another bowl take Hershey's chocolate syrup and mix crashed almonds in this

• Now take rasgullas pop roll it in Hershey' syrup mixture

• If you like coconut you can further roll it into grated coconut powder. To make it more colourful you can add toppings of your taste like choco chips, chocolate vermicelli, colourful sugar balls
• Now keep these pops in freezer for 20 to 30 mins.....

• Your rasgulla pops are ready enjoy it and feel nostalgic .....