Eggless Cake with Mocha icing

Microwave chocolate cake topped with yummy mocha icing.
Serves 6
Ingredients
Sweetened condensed milk 1/2 tin
Milk 1/2 cup
Butter 1/2 cup (75 gms)
Powdered sugar 1 1/2 tbsp
Plain flour 1 cup (100 gms)
Cocoa powder 1/4 cup
Soda bicard 3/4 level tsp
Baking powder 3/4 level tsp
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Mocha glaze icing
Cocoa powder 4 tbsp
Butter 2 tbsp softened
Instant coffee 1tsp
Icing sugar 1 cup [...]

Phirni

Serves 4
Ingredients
Milk -3½ cups
Rice - ¼cup
Powdered sugar - ¼ cup or to taste
Rose water - 1 tsp (optional)
Cardamom - 2 or 3
Pistas - 5 or 6 sliced thinly
Almonds - 2 sliced into long thin pieces
Get Cooking!
1. Soak the rice in a little water for 2-3 hours. Grind this into a very fine paste.
2. Mix in [...]

Eggless Cake

IngredientsFlour- 2 cupsButter/ Ghee -1¼ cupsSweetened condensed milk- 1 tinWater -1 cupVanilla essence- ½ tspSalt -1 pinchBaking powder -¾ tspChopped nuts- 1 cup
Get Baking!1. Beat butter till fluffy.2. Mix in the condensed milk, water, creamed butter, chopped nuts in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from fire and cool.3. Sift the baking powder, [...]

Raghavdas Ladoo

This is a Maharashtrian sweet.
Ingredients
Fine semolina 2 cups
Grated Coconut 1 cup
Sugar 1½ cups
Raisins
Milk
Cardamom powder
Get Cooking!
1. Roast the sooji with a few drops of ghee and set aside.
2. Stir fry the grated coconut a little and set aside.
3. Mix in the milk and the rava in a kadai which is kept on a low flame.
4. Then [...]

Badam Halwa

Ingredients
Almonds
Milk
Sugar
Saffron
Ghee

Get Cooking!
1. Soak the almonds in warm water for a while. Peel the skin off. Grind them to a smooth paste with milk or water (obviously milk makes it more yummy, I use fat free milk and make the paste)
2. Soak a couple of saffron stems in a few tsps of milk.
3. Take sugar almost [...]

Chakkara Pongal

Ingredients
Rice 1 cup
Moong Dal 1/4 cup
Milk
Jaggery 2 cups (can use more or less according to taste)
Cashew nuts
Raisins
Grated coconut (optional)
Nutmeg powder
Cardamom powder
Saffron
Green camphor (literal translation from tamil ) (optional)
Ghee
Get Cooking!
1. Dry roast the moong dal till it is lightly golden brown till you get a nice aroma.
2. Wash the rice and moong dal.
3. Pressure cook [...]

Eggless Dates Cake

Serves : 3-4Preparation time : 45minIngredients
Dates 18Milk 3/4 cupSugar 1/2 cupAll purpose flour (Maida or wheat flour) 1 cupOil 1/2 cupBaking soda 1 tsp (or baking powder which makes the cake a little harder)Cashews, walnuts (optional) 1 tbsp
Get Baking!
1. Soak the dates in warm milk. Remove the seeds if any.2. Grind the soaked dates, sugar [...]

Noori Petti Payasam

Arachuvitta payasam in tamil
Ingredients
Rice 1 tsp
Moong dal
Coconut ½ grated finely
Sugar/ Jaggery
Milk
Cardamom powder
Cashew nuts
Get Cooking!
1. Dry roast the moong dal and soak it with the rice.
2. Grind this with the grated coconut to a fine paste.
3. Put this paste into a heavy bottomed vessel, stir on a low heat continuously.
4. Put in the [...]

Mysore Pak (in a jiffy)

Ingredients

Besan 1 cup
Maida 1 tsp
Ghee or clarified butter 1 cup
Sugar 2 cups
Milk 3 tbsp

Get Cooking!

1. Heat 1 cup ghee in microwave oven for 1 minute.
2. Add the besan and maida. Mix it in well and cook in the microwave oven for 1 more minute.
3. Add the sugar, milk . Mix them in and cook in [...]

Mysore Pak

Makes 40-50 pieces
Ingredients
Besan 1.5 cups seived without lumps
Sugar 3 cups
Ghee or clarified butter 4 - 4.5 cups (about 800 - 900 gms)
Get Cooking!

1. Grease a plate and keep aside
2. Make a sugar syrup with the sugar and a little water in a heavy bottomed vessel. The final consistency should be such that if [...]