Eggless Lamingtons~~ Baking Eggless Challenge

A lamington is a sponge cake of Australia,this cube shaped sponge cake are coated traditionally with chocolate icing and then with dessicated coconut. These lamingtons are in my to do list since a long, thank god Gayathri choosed these famous Australian lamingtons for this month's baking eggless challenge. Finally i made these super addictive cute lamingtons at home, thanks Gayathri for this lovely choice.

As this challenge goes for baking eggless, i went for a eggless condensed milk sponge vanilla cake and this eggless sponge cake turned out extremely spongy and truly soft. Later i quickly prepared a dark chocolate icing  for the coating and rolled them over dessicated coconut twice for the final touch.My lil one just enjoyed having this addictive lamingtons and for my surprise they vanished very much quickly obviously i went for making second batch of these lamingtons again. 

For Eggless Lamingtons:
2cups All purpose flour
1/2cup Sugar
1/2cup Sweetened Condensed milk
1cup Butter
1tsp Baking powder
1/2tsp Baking Soda
1tsp Vanilla Essence
1/4cup Milk


Preheat the oven to 350F, line a baking sheet over a square mould. Beat together the butter and sugar until they turns creamy.


Add the sweetened condensed milk,vanilla essence,milk to it and beat again until the mixture turns soft.


Meanwhile sift the flour with baking soda and baking powder. Now add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients ,mix with a spatula until everything get well mixed,dont overmix.


Pour the cake batter to the already prepared mould and bake in middle rack for 20-25minutes until a skewer inserted comes out clean.


Keep aside and let the cake gets completely cool.


For Icing:
1+1/2cups Chocolate chips
2tbsp Butter
1/2cup Milk
1cup Powdered Sugar
1tbsp Unsweetened cocoa powder
2tbsp Boiling water
Dessicated coconut as per need

Cut the into two rectangles first and keep aside.

Make a chocolate icing by melting together the chocolate chips,butter,milk and sugar in a microwave safe bowl for 3-4minutes, mix it well.

Now add the unsweetened cocoa powder to the icing and mix well again.

Spread generously the chocolate icing over one layer of the eggless sponge cake and then top with another layer of the cake.

Cut the cake as medium sized squares as u desire. Now whisk the boiling water to the already prepared icing and mix well.

With your fingers dip the lamingtons in the chocolate icing and roll them immediately to the dessicated coconut until the lamingtons gets well coated on all sides, roll again the lamingtons to the dessicated coconut twice for a beautiful coating.

Let them sit on a wire cooling rack until the chocolate icing gets firms.

Enjoy with a cup of hot tea.

Spicy Zucchini & Paneer Whole Wheat Pizza

Sorry friends, i couldnt able to be much active for past a week.Actually i was in holiday mood and thats why i wasnt able to post quite often in my space and also i wasnt able to visit all ur spaces.Again am leaving to Brussels for a week and we are very much excited to visit this beautifuly city. We came back home after a week of vacation yesterday, as i dont want to miss the Olympic games opening ceremony.Oh god it was amazing and just loved the marvellous ceremony, wish France and India will come back with loads of medals, fingers crossed.


Coming to this fantastic spicy pizza, i quickly prepared this pizza yesterday  for our dinner. If you are searching for an easy breezy pizza, this pizza is for you.I didnt used tomato sauce as we usually go for pizza and spiced the veggies and paneer cubes with a super flavourful spice powder, prepared with garam masala,chilly and few dry herbs. This pizza tastes simply awesome,definitely healthy and really prefect for a dinner.Sending to Dish It Out-Tofu/Paneer and Bellpepper guest hosted by Usha,event by Vardhini and to VFAM-Zucchini guest hosted by Vardhini,event by Priya.

For crust:
1 tbsp Active Dry yeast
2+1/2cups Whole wheat Flour
1 tsp  Salt
1/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Mix the active dry yeast to a luke warm water and keep aside.

Combine flour and salt in a bowl,drizzle in olive oil until combined with flour. Next, pour in yeast-water mixture and mix until just combined.

Coat a separate mixing bowl with olive oil, and form the dough into a ball.

Coat the dough with olive oil, then cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and store in the fridge until you need it.

For topping:
1/2no Zucchini (sliced)
1no Tomato (chopped)
1/2cup Paneer (cubed)
1/2cup Yellow bellpepper (cubed)
1/2tsp Garam masala powder
1/2tsp Chilly powder
Dry oregano
Dry parsley leaves
Salt
1tbsp Olive oil
1/2cup Grated cheese

Mix the garam masala powder,chilly powder,salt,dry oregano,dry parsley leaves together and keep aside.

Take enough pizza dough,roll it as large or medium sized circular disc.Transfer the rolled pizza dough to a baking sheet placed over a baking tray.

In a large bowl,take the sliced zucchini,chopped tomato,cubed paneer,cubed bellpepper and add the spice powder,olive oil. Mix gently until the veggies & paneer gets well coated.

Preheat the oven to 400F..Arrange the spice coated veggies and paneer cubes as you desire over the rolled pizza dough.

Springle the grated cheese over the arrange veggies and bake for 20-25minutes until the crust turns brown.

Baking Partners ~~ A New Baking Group Announcment

Baking a homemade bread, cake or cookies will give the best outcome. However in order to achieve the best results, a  perfect recipe and  right techniques are required.

We are a small group of home baker friends, Reeni (Cinnamon Spice and Everything Nice) , Julie (Erivum Puliyum) Tina  (Pinay In Texas Cooking Corner ) , Priya (Priya's Versatile Recipes)  , Suja (Kitchen Corner -Try It),Archana (Tangy Minds), Prathibha (Cook Ezee), Reshmi (Easy Cook) and Swathi  ( Zesty South Indian Kitchen) who love and want to learn more about the nook and corners of baking.


 We are planning to try out recipes from books/magazines and cooking shows.  Every member gets a chance to present their choice of recipe and share important points with the rest of the group.


Main purpose of this group is to learn the techniques, critic the procedure if there are ways to improve, and to eat a delicious food.

Rules are simple, we will choose one recipe  and send it out to the group by 16th of every month and  the reveal date will be 15th of the next month . On that day we will  blog about it. A linky tool will be open during that time and each member can link their post.

First month we are going to do a recipe, 2nd and 3rd month will be a theme and the 4th month we will be back at  a recipe. By doing in between recipes, we will able to learn more.

All enthusiastic bloggers interested in baking are welcome, please email me  at favoriterecipes12@gmail.com.

We will appreciate the use of logo or worded link that will help to spread the word.  A bunch of thanks to Tina for designing this beautiful logo.

If you   want to make it a gluten or vegan free diet, you can do those modifications also.

Peppered Potato,Mushroom & Bellpepper Curry

Have you ever combined potato,mushroom and bellpeppers together in your dry curries?, if not you guys have to give a try to this ultimate combo.An excellent side dish to enjoy either with a bowl of rice or rotis.I simply  spiced this fantastic quick curry with freshly grounded pepper powder and coriander powder.

Serve this fingerlicking curry along with curd or rasam rice, both tastes absolutely divine and everyone at home simply enjoyed it.This curry will hardly take 15minutes to gets ready, i even served this peppered curry along with chappathis for our dinner.This is my 3rd entry for this week's blogging marathon,do check out the other bloggers running along with me here.

1cup Button mushrooms (chopped)
1no Green bellpepper (cubed)
2nos Potatos (cubed)
1no Onion (big & chopped)
1tbsp Coriander powder
1tbsp Pepper powder
Salt
Oil
Few curry leaves
1/2tsp Cumin seeds


Heat enough oil in a pan, throw the cumin seeds and curry leaves and fry, now add the chopped onions and cook for few minutes.


Add the chopped mushrooms,cubed potatoes and salt,cook for few seconds, finally add the cubed bellpepper, coriander powder, cook everything in simmer for few more minutes.


Springle some water and cook everything in simmer until the veggies gets well cooked, add the pepper powder finally and cook everything for few more seconds.


Put off the stove and serve hot as side dish.