Chocolate Cake Filed under ( Baking )

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 3/4cup

Coco Powder - 1/4 cup

Butter - 3tsp

Sugar - 1cup

Baking soda - 1tsp

Baking powder - 1tsp

Salt - a pinch

Boiled water - 1/2cup

Egg - 1no

Vanilla essence - 1tsp

For topping:

Chocolate - 1/2cup(choco chips)

Iceing sugar - 2-3tsp

Cream - 2 tsp

Butter - 1tsp

Vinalla essence - 1/2tsp

Preparation:

1)Preheat oven at 180'C

2) In a bowl, put APF, baking soda,baking pwd, salt and powdered sugar, mix them well

3)Then add butter, egg, boiled water and vanilla essence mix them slowly 

4)Pour them into 8 inch tray, heat for 30 -35mins at 180'C

5)Insert a stick into the baked cake in order to check if the inner portion has been cooked else, bake for few more mins.

For Topping:

1)Melt the cholocate with butter, then off the flame and add cream, icing sugar, vanilla essence mix them well and spread over the cake

This Chocolate cake goes to Virtual Party- Chocolaty Dreams by shabitha

Butter Cake and Merry Christmas!! Filed under ( Baking )

Ingredients:

Butter - 50g

All purpose flour - 1 cup

Milk - 1/2 cup

Baking powder - 1/2 tsp

Powdered sugar - 1/2 cup

Egg - 1 no

Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp

Preparation:

Beat the butter nicely and make it smooth (please have it in room temp before beating)

To it add egg, vanilla essence, sugar, baking powder, milk ( all items at room temp)

Add flour to it and mix it into a smooth batter

Pre heat the oven for 15minutes at 150 C.

Pour the batter in a tray and heat the tray for 30 minutes.

The cake is ready to be served.

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Coconut Cookies And Gift Filed under ( Baking )

Ingredients:

All purpose Flour - 1 cup

Baking Powder - 1  pinch

Coconut Powder - 1/2 cup

Salt - to taste 

Sugar powdered- 1/4 cup

Butter - 25gms (beat well)

Honey - 1  tsp

Water/Milk - 3 tsp

Vanilla - 1 tsp

Preparation:

Beat the butter nicely and make it smooth

To it add vanilla,honey,salt, sugar, baking powder, coconut powder and water/milk

Add flour to it and mix it into a smooth dough.

Pre heat the oven for 10 minutes at 150 C.

Make round balls of the dough and flatten it on a butter paper and place it in the oven.

Heat the dough for 15 minutes and the cookies is ready to serve. 

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My dear friend priya of priya's recipes has gifted me these. Thank u so much.

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Papaya Muffins Filed under ( Baking, Muffins )

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1cup

Sugar - 1/4 cup

Papaya puree - 1/2cup

B. soda - 1/2cup

Choco chip - 1/4 cup(optional)

Vanilla essence - 1tsp

Egg - 1no

Butter - 2tsp

Salt - a pinch

Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven at 325'f/160'c

2. Shift the flour and add sugar,b soda,choco cips

3. Combine the butter, egg, vanilla essence, and papaya puree add it to the flour and mixwell without lumb

4. Pour batter into greased muffin tray upto 2/3rd.

5. Bake for 20-25 mins at 160'c

Recipe courtesy: skinnytaste.com 

Vanilla Muffins Filed under ( Baking )

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1cup

Butter - 1/4cup

Egg - 1no

Milk - 1/4cup

Powdered sugar - 1/2cup

Baking powder - 1tsp

Salt - 1/2tsp

Choco chips/chocolate rice - for topping

Preparation:

1)Preheat the oven at 200"c

2)Sift the flour, add sugar,b.powder and salt

3)Combine the butter, egg, milk and vanilla essence, and add it to the flour and mixwell without lumbs

4) Pour batter into greased muffin tray upto 2/3rd. Put choco chips/rice on the top.

5)Bake for 10 -12mins at 200''c 

Recipe Courtesy: Grouprecipes

Choco Chips Cake Filed under ( Baking, Tried from other blogs )

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1cup

Powdered Sugar - 1/2cup

B.Powder - 1/2 tsp

Choco chips - 1/4cup

Pineapple/Vannila essence - 1tsp

Egg - 2nos

Butter - 1stick

Salt - a pinch

Preparation:

1)Preheat the oven at 350'F(175'C)

2)Sift the flour, baking soda,baking pwd,salt and keep aside

3)Combine the butter and sugar make it fluffy, then add eggs and essence. Then slowly add the flour ingredients to it and mix them well

4)Finally add the choco chips and pour the batter in 8*4inch loaf pan

5)Bake them for 30-4o mins

Serve after it cools.

Recipe courtesy: The Purple Foodie

Sugar Cookies Filed under ( Baking )

Ingredients:

All purpose flour/Plain flour - 1 1/2cup

Sugar - 1/2cup (powdered)

Butter - 1/2cup

B.powder - 1tsp

B.soda - 1/2tsp

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Milk - 5-6tsp

Preparation:

1)Preheat oven at 160'C

2)In a bowl, add butter,milk, vanilla essence mix well and then flour, b.pwd, b.soda, and sugar combine together

3)Grease cookies sheets, make small balls of dough and flatten with t.spoon and place 2 inches apart onto the cookies sheet

4)Bake them for 10-12mins at 160'c..till it turns golden brown colour.

Serve after it cools.

I tried this cookies from Eggless drop cookies...thanks for sharing.

Sweets for Your Valentines Filed under ( Baking )

Now the snow is up to two and a half feet and even the plows aren't coming around on our lonely road. More blizzard conditions and wind shuffling the powdery snow around so that shoveling and plowing don't have a lingering effect. More cooking heralded.

I am happy to report that a year after the whole wheat-free diet was mandated, I have finally achieved a tasty and flaky pie crust. I owe it all to the dean of wheat-free cooking, Bette Hagman. I have a copy of her flagship cookbook, "The Gluten-Free Gourmet"(NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1991) and used her Tender Vinegar Pastry recipe for the crust. I made two crusts, one for a pumpkin pie and one for my family favorite, Apple Sour Cream Pie.

The crusts held together well and were fairly easy to repair after rolling them out and attempting the transfer to the pie pans. My Franken-crusts just needed some extra work to seal the cracks. It is hard to make a beautiful sculptured edge as is more easily done with a wheat crust, but the taste is really light and it's texture is wonderful. We tried some frozen gluten-free pie crusts and they were leaden and as tasty as a busted shoe.

Here is Ms. Hagman's Tender Vinegar Pastry recipe:

1-1/2 cups rice flour
1/2 cup potato starch (not to be confused with potato flour)
1/4 cup tapioca flour
1 tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. xanthan gum
3/4 cup shortening
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 Tbsp. vinegar
2 Tbsp. cold water

Sift flours, salt, sugar and xanthan gum into a mixing bowl. Cut in shortening. Blend together egg, vinegar and cold water. Stir them into the flour mix. This will seem quite moist, but a rice crust needs to be more moist than a wheat flour one.

Knead the mixture into a ball (handling will not toughen the dough). Separate into two balls and roll, one at a time, between two sheets of plastic wrap. Place in pie tin.

Makes 2 crusts.


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Apple Sour Cream Pie

One unbaked pie crust
4 small apples, peeled, cored and chopped
3/4 cup sugar
2 Tbsp. gluten-free baking mix
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/8 tsp. salt
1 cup sour cream
1 egg, beaten

Topping: 1/3 cup sugar, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1/3 cup gluten-free baking mix & 1/4 cup butter

Line pie plate with pastry.

Mix 3/4 cup sugar and 2 Tbsp. baking mix. Add sour cream, vanilla, egg and salt. Add apples and combine. Pour into pie shell.

Bake at 425 degrees for 20 minutes. Then combine topping ingredients and sprinkle over top of pie. Lower oven heat to 325 degrees and bake another 20-30 minutes, or until lightly browned.

Top with sweetened whipped cream, if desired.

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Vanilla cookies and Award! Filed under ( Awards, Baking, kids menu )

Ingredients:

All purpose Flour - 1 3 /4 cup

Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp

Salt -1/2 tsp

Egg - 1 no.

Sugar powdered- 1 cup

Butter - 1/2 cup

Vanilla - 1 tsp

Preparation:

Beat the butter nicely and make it smooth

To it add vanilla,egg,salt, sugar and baking powder and beat well

Add flour to it and mix it into a smooth dough and keep it in fridge for 30mins.Please see to it that the dough is not sticky.

Then make any shapes and again keep it in fridge for 15mins

Pre heat the oven for 10 minutes at 150 C.

Bake the cookies for 15 minutes and the cookies is ready to serve.

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C is for Cookie Filed under ( Baking, Cookies, Desserts )

So while Sesame Street might have made cookies politically incorrect for pre-schoolers now that the Cookie Monster sings the praises of vegetables, we still love cookies. Here's a gluten-free treat for everyone from the recipe files of my good friend Tina.

Almond Cloud Cookies

2 cups blanched almonds (you can find bags of whole almonds or sliced almonds, any form will do as long as the brown skin is gone)
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla or almond extract
2 egg whites at room temperature

Using a food processor, grind the almonds and sugar, half at a time, until finely ground. Blend in vanilla and egg whites.

Drop with teaspoon onto a well-greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 16-18 minutes, until golden peaks form. Let sit for a couple of minutes to cool a bit and then wrestle from the cookie sheet with a spatula.

Makes 2 dozen cookies.

You can also add 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips, if desired.

A Winter Breakfast Filed under ( Baking, Breakfast )

Here in Upstate New York we have finally gotten our usual wintry weather in the last several weeks and it's time for a hot morning's breakfast. If there is time, the following biscuit recipe serves the bill. They are best fresh out of the oven, but even cold they don't last the day in our household of four.

Buttermilk Biscuits

1 cup potato starch (not to be confused with potato flour, we get it at our health foods store)
1-1/2 cups corn starch (bought on sale in bulk at the grocery store)
3-1/2 tsp. xanthan gum (from health food store, expensive stuff)
2 Tbsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. sugar
2/3 cup cold butter, cubed
1-1/2 cups buttermilk
Rice flour

Spray a baking stone with cooking spray or lightly oil it. If you don't have a baking stone (great for pizza and crisping up other baked goods too) you can use a cookie sheet. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Mix dry ingredients in large bowl. Work in butter until the mixture is coarse and crumbly. Pour in buttermilk and mix until dough gathers into a ball.

Sprinkle counter with rice flour and turn dough out. Quickly form into two large balls and press flat. Cut each ball into eight sections, like a scone. Place on baking stone.

Bake at 375 degrees for 12-15 minutes, or until lightly brown.

Makes 16 biscuits.

Enjoy warm with butter and jam.

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