Sunday, October 11, 2015

Chocolate Beet Cake

What you need:


  • 4 medium beets peeled, boiled and pureed
  • 2 cups whole wheat flour/all purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups unrefined sugar
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3/4 cup warm water
  • 1/4 cup sunflower oil
  • 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Method:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees or 180 F. Whisk together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and 3/4 teaspoon salt in a large bowl. Whisk in eggs, water, oil, vanilla, and 1 1/4 cups beet puree 
  2. Coat a 9-inch round cake pan with cooking spray.  Pour batter into pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Let cool in pan on a wire rack for 20 minutes. Turn out cake from pan,  Let cool completely, right side up.
  3. Garnish as per desire.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Eggless Brownies

What you need:

All purpose flour – ¾ cup
Granulated sugar – 1 cup
Salt – ¼ teaspoon
Baking powder – 2 teaspoon
Unsweetened Cocoa powder – 1/3 cup
Unsalted Butter – ½ cup, melted and cooled
Yogurt – ½ cup + 2 tablespoons
Vanilla extract – 1 ½ teaspoon
Chocolate chips – ½ cup, optional
Chopped Walnut – ½ cup, optional


1) Preheat the oven to 350 degree F or 180 degree C 
2) First melt the butter in microwave or on stove top. And let it cool while you prepare baking pan and other ingredients. I recommend using unsalted butter, if using salted butter then skip the salt in the recipe.
3) Lightly butter or spray with non-stick cooking spray 8×8 inch baking pan
4) Take all purpose flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in a bowl.
5) Now sift the cocoa powder.
6) Mix well till incorporated well.

7) Now take melted and cooled butter in another bowl. Add yogurt and vanilla extract.9) Whisk well till everything gets mixed.10) Add dry flour mixture.11) Mix well. Do not over mix.12) Add chocolate chips or walnuts if using. And mix well.13) Now pour the batter into prepared pan.14) And bake it into pre-heated oven for 35-40 minutes. Check by inserting a toothpick in the center, if it comes out clean then it is ready. Let brownie cool completely in the pan before cutting. It takes at least 30 minutes.
15) After it cools completely,  using a sharp knife cut  as per your desire.
16) Dust them with powdered sugar and serve