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 KERALA PLUM CAKE  (non alcoholic and eggless) Merry Christmas 🎄⛄🎄 Sprinkled dry fruits powder on the cake 👆 Freshly baked KERELA PLUM CAKE just out of the oven 👆 Indulge yourself to a delicious Christmas treat, loaded with fruits and nuts soaked in apple juice for this non alcoholic version of this moist, rich, and luscious cake… just how you would have wished your perfect fruit cake to be.     Another eventful year is coming to an end.This Christmas is different from the other years due to the pandemic . It has been a gloomy and grey year with natural disasters ,loss of lives and livelihoods ,pain and sorrow .           However, due to the pandemic , social distancing norms and lockdown , we are all staying indoors and getting more time to spend with our families , exploring new opportunities, rediscovering our hobbies interests and talents.         Every cloud has a silver lining. It's only up to us to be resil...

 HOMEMADE COOKIES  The Christmas fervour is on . Everyone is in a baking mood . So am I . The aroma of freshly baked cakes and cookies , straight out of the oven  is heavenly. I just love it .            Though I don't do much of cookies , as I find the procedure bit lengthy , creaming, kneading , rolling n cutting the cookies , I did try a small batch of these delicious  COOKIES  I used different flavours _ Chocolate, vanilla coffee ,        Do try and let me know how they turned out 😊😊 Cookies Cream 1/2 cup each  butter n powdered sugar till light n fluffy In another bowl sieve 1cup atta  + 1/2 tsp baking soda   Mix the dry ingredients in the butter mixture Add vanilla essence Add milk as needed n make a dough ( dont knead hard like roti or puri . )  Divide dough into 3 parts In one part add cocoa powder and roll into a ball In the second part add coffee powder and roll Keep the third...

 Wet ingredients Beat 1/2 cup oil + 1n1/2 cup sugar syrup + 1/4 tsp vanilla essence ( I have experimented with both gulab jamun  and rasgulla syrups/ Dry ingredients Sift 2cups maida /Atta  + 1tsp baking powder + 1/4 tsp baking soda  Mix wet & dry ingredients n form a batter Add chopped nuts Pour batter into greased n floured baking dish  Bake in preheated oven at 180 deg cel for 30-35 min till done Rasgulla syrup cake 👇 Gulab jamun sugar syrup cake 👇