Recipe Encyclopedia

Thursday, June 18, 2009

EGGLESS CAKE RECIPE

Ingredients:




8 oz. plain flour
3 oz. margarine
pinch of salt
4 tspful baking powder
3 oz. sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
about 1/2 cup milk and water




How to make eggless cake:
Mix flour, baking powder and salt.
Mix in the margarine, add the sugar and vanilla and mix to a dropping consistency with the milk and water.
Turn into a greased 7 inch tin and bake in a moderate oven for 3/4 to 1 hour.

DUNDEE CAKE RECIPE

Ingredients:




75 gms chopped glace cherries
110 gms currants
50 gms chopped mixed peel
110 gms golden raisins
50 gms ground almonds
225 grms butter
225 gms castor sugar
3 eggs
3 tblsp blanched almonds
Grated rind of one lemon
1 tsp cherry
350 gms plain flour
110 gms raisins




How to make dundee cake:
Grease and line a 18cm cake tin.
In a bowl mix together golden raisins, peel, ground almonds, currants, raisins and cherries.
In a separate bowl beat the butter till soft then add castor sugar and the lemon rind and beat till light and fluffy.
In a separate bowl beat the eggs together and then gradually add to the creamed mixture, beating well after each addition.
Mix the flour and the baking powder in a separate container and sift it well and add to the creamed mixture along with the cherry and all the dried fruits mix together earlier.
Pour this mixture into the greased tin, try to create a hollow in the center and cover that center with the almonds.
Bake this cake for 2 1/2 - 3 hours at 325 degrees F or till a skewer pricked into the center of the cake comes out clean.
When done cool the cake in the tin for 15 minutes and then let it cool completely on a wire rack.

CORNFLOUR CAKE RECIPE

Ingredients:




4 oz. cornflour
1 oz. flour
2 oz. castor sugar
2 oz. butter
1 tspful baking powder
1 egg
Little milk




How to make cornflour cake:
Cream the butter and sugar, and add the egg beaten with a little milk.
Then add the sieved cornflour, flour and baking powder.
Put into a prepared cake tin and bake in a moderate oven for about 1 hour.

COCONUT CUPCAKES RECIPE

Ingredients:


6 cups Fine Wheat Flour (Maida)
2 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Sodium Bicarbonate (Khaane Wala Soda)
1 tsp Salt
4 cups Sugar
1 1/2 cup unsalted Butter
6 big sized Eggs
3 tsp Almond Essence
3 tsp Vanilla Essence
2 cups Butter Milk (Mattha / Chhaach)
5 1/2 cups Coconut (Khopra/Narial)

For Icing
900 gms Cream Cheese (Hung Curd)
1 1/2 cup unsalted Butter
2 tsp Vanilla Essence
1 tsp Almond Essence 1Kg 400 gms Icing Sugar, sifted


How to make coconut cupcakes:
First preheat the oven at 160 degrees.
Grease a tin and place pape cases on it.
Mix flour, baking powder, soda and salt.
Beat and cream suagar and butter.
Add eggs one at a time.
Now mix the essences.
Next add the flour alternatively with the buttermilk.
Mix half of the grated coconut.
Fill the paper cases with the mixture.
Bake them for 25 - 30 minutes or till they are golden in color.
For icing beat the cream cheese, butter, sugar and the essence till smooth and creamy.
Place a layer of this icing on the bakes cupcakes and sprinkle some coconut on them.

COCONUT CAKE RECIPE

Ingredients:




6 oz. flour
3 oz. butter
4 oz. castor sugar
a little milk
2 small eggs
3 oz. desiccated coconut
1 small tspful baking powder




How to make coconut cake:
Cream the butter and sugar, and add the beaten eggs gradually.
Then add the flour, baking powder and the coconut and, lastly, a little milk.
Put the mixture into a prepared cake tin and bake in a moderate oven for about 1 1/4 hours.

CHOCOLATE SWISS ROLL RECIPE

Ingredients:




2 eggs
1 1/2 oz. flour
2 oz. castor sugar
1 tspful baking powder
1 tblspful warm water
1oz. grated sweetened chocolate




How to make chocolate swiss roll:
Grease a swiss roll tin, line with greaseproof paper and then grease the paper well.
Separate the whites from the yolks of the eggs.
Beat the yolks and the sugar together until the mixture is creamy.
Then add the warm water, and immediately after that the chocolate.
Whisk the whites stiffly, and add alternately with the sieved flour and baking powder, folding them in lightly.
Put the mixture in the tin and bake in hot oven for about 12 minutes.
Turn out on to a piece of greaseproof paper well sprinkled with icing sugar, trim the edges and roll it up.
Then put it on a rack to cool.

CHOCOLATE MOCHA CAKE RECIPE

Ingredients:




1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup saw milk
2 cup sifted all purpose flour
1/2 cup strong hot coffee
4 cup sugar
1/4 cup coco
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 cup brown sugar
2 arms unsweetened chocolate
2 egg yoghurts
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp salt
2 egg whites
1 cup butter




How to make chocolate mocha cake:
In a bowl beat 1/2 cup butter and add sugar gradually till it gets fluffy.
Add in the melted chocolate and an unbeaten egg yoghurts, 1 tsp vanilla extract and sour milk.
Beat this mixture well.
Add the sifted flour alternately with the hot coffee i.e. once you add the flour then you add the coffee then you again add the flour then coffee continue till the flour and coffee are finished.
Now add the beaten egg whites.
Preheat the oven at 350 degrees F and grease a 9x13 inch pan.
Pour the prepared mixture into the pan and bake for 35-40 minutes.
In a separate bowl beat half cup butter with powdered sugar, salt and coco.
To this mixture add 1/3 cup strong coffee and 1/2 tsp vanilla.
Mix it nicely and spread on the prepared cake and sprinkle some silvered almonds.