No icing on the cake

 APPLE STREUSEL CUPCAKES Delicious 😋 with the right sweetness  FOR THE STREUSEL Flour _ 1 cup  Butter _ 1/4 cup 🧈 Sugar _ 2 _3 tbsp Cinnamon powder 1/2 tsp  APPLE LAYER _ Mix and keep aside Apple_ chopped into small pieces🍎 Honey 1 tbsp  Cinnamon powder  FOR THE CAKE  Blend the following in the blender ( Wet ingredients) Apple 1 small pureed🍎 Sugar 3/4 cup  Vanilla essence  Sieve the following together ( Dry Ingredients) Flour _ 1 cup Baking powder _ 1/2 tsp  Baking soda_ 1/4 tsp Make a batter   MAKING THE CAKE Preheat oven to 180°c for 10 minutes Grease and line muffin tray with liners  Spoon 🥄 in some cake batter into each liner  Now put in some apples pieces  Top with streusel mixture Bake _ 180°c for 25 to 30 minutes . I have some 5 extra minutes for the top to brown up  HONEY _ JAM DRIZZLE Beat some honey 🍯 and jam with some water till smooth  Drizzle over cooled cupcakes/muffins

   Baking cakes need no celebration , at least not for me. This is a super soft vanilla sponge cake topped with homemade caramel sauce .

 BANANA PEAR CAKE  I baked this simple one bowl batter cake to celebrate my win in one of the few writing contests I have participated during the Lockdown .  Inspite of being a No oil , no butter no sugar cake, it turned out soft , moist and delicious with the right amount of sweetness .  Ingredients for the one bowl  batter Whole wheat flour _ 1 cup Banana_ 1  Pear 1 chopped into small pieces Baking powder 1tsp Baking soda_1/2tsp Jaggery/gur _ 1/2 cup( soaked in milk) Honey _ 3_4 tbsp  Cinnamon powder, vanilla essence Milk to make the batter I made a simple one bowl batter by hand using a spoon Bake in preheated oven for 35_40 minutes at 180 degree celcius  Drizzle Chocolate powder and cocoa powder on the cooled cake