No icing on the cake

  My parents are celebrating their anniversary  in the heaven with the angels today  ( 19 November) HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MA & BABA🙏🙏❤️❤️🙏🙏 ❤️❤️ Miss you always ❤️💐🙏         They are now United together in their heavenly abode never never never never again......to part   They were the made for each other couple . They lived life to the fullest and enjoyed every bit of it with foreign trips to Europe n USA . Enjoying films at the film festival n going to trade Fairs at pragati maidan was an annual feature .Their common love for books made them start a library in the living room of the government house with books contributed by the members . Their gifts of encyclopaedias and books to my son , on his birthdays are still adorning the bookshelves of the house ..  Can never forget the home made cakes ,fish fries ,chops , cutlets ,roshogolla , luchi ,alu dom , ghughni , and ( pantua ( gulab jamun) parties at our Andrewsgang govt house dur...

 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 

MANGO UPSIDE DOWN CAKE (I made the basic batter in the blender) DRY INGREDIENTS Atta _ 1n1/2 cup  ( use maida if you want) Custard powder _ 2 tbsp  Baking powder - 1tsp Baking soda 1/2tsp WET INGREDIENTS - To cream together till light n fluffy Oil_1/4cup Sugar powder_ 1/2cup Fold in the dry ingredients little by little into the wet ingredients  Add milk / mango juice to form a lump free batter ( I used juice) Add chopped mango  pieces  mix lightly Arrange mango slices  in a greased mould  Drizzle some caramelized sugar on them  Pour the batter n bake in a preheated oven of 180 Celsius for 35-40min till done  Cool n unmould  Enjoy  I used 1big Malda mango for the recipe Though I had arranged them as shown in the collage , but I wonder what happened to the arrangement 🤔 Nonetheless, the cake is delicious .

DARK CHOCOLATE CAKE Who can resist Chocolates ? It's absolutely devine and sinful . Flour_ 2 cups Baking powder 1.5 tsp Baking soda 3/4 tsp Curd 1 cup Oil/melted butter_ 1/2 cup Sugar_ 1.5 cups Cocoa powder _ 1/2 cup Coffee powder _ 2 tsp( optional,but it enhances the taste and colour of the cake) Vanilla essence,dry fruits Method  Pre heat the oven to 180 degree celcius for 10 minutes Make a batter using the ingredients  Pour into a greased and lined cake dish Bake for 40 _ 45 minutes or till done  Can decorate as you wish

FOR THE CHOCOLATE CAKE( made in the air fryer 😆) Semolina/suji.  _ 1 cup  Fresh homemade curd _ 1/2 cup Sugar  _ 3/4 cup Oil _ 1/4 cup Cocoa powder 2tbsp Coffee powder ( optional) _ 1/2 tsp Vanilla essence  Dry fruits ( optional)  Pre-heat airfryer 190 degree celcius for 5 minutes Mix all ingredients in a big bowl  Pour into a greased cake dish that fits into the airfryer ( bake  in  the attachment for baking cakes if you have it .)   Bake at 190 degree celcius for 25 _ 30 minutes or till done  Cool the cake  F OR THE FUDGE Chocolate sauce ( ready made) Cake crumbs Milk Mix all ingredients for the fudge(fudge mixture) Keep the cake in a micro friendly shallow dish  Pour the fudge mixture over the cake Microwave for 2_3 minutes till the fudge mixture sets  Cool and slice the cake  in the dish itself