Coffee and Walnut Cake

Ingredients

All purpose flour – 200 gm

Powdered sugar – 170 gm

Oil – 90 gm

Eggs – 2

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Baking soda – ½ tsp

Salt – ½ tsp

Coffee powder – 3 tsp

Milk – ¼ cup

Make a syrup of coffee and sugar

For icing

Butter – 100 gms at room temperature

Icing sugar – 200 gm

Cream – 3 tbl.sp

Coffee and sugar syrup – 2 tbl.sp

Whisk it till creamy and refrigerate it for sometime

Method

Take a bowl and  add oil and sugar and whisk it till it becomes creamy. Then add egg one by one  along with coffee powder and beat it for a minute with a hand blender.

In another bowl, sieve together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.

Then little by little add it to the egg mixture  and beat it with a hand blender. If the batter is too thick add little milk. Also add coarsely blended walnuts to it.

Now take a grease baking mould, put  batter,  tap it.  Then bake it in a preheated oven at 180 degree celcius for 35 to 40 minutes.

When cool demould it.

Slightly remove the top layer and then cut the cake into half horizontally.

Put little coffe and sugar syrup on both the cake pieces

Spread cream in between the two cake pieces and then decorate it with walnuts.

Marble Chocolate Cake

Ingredients
All purpose flour – 200 gm
Powdered sugar – 170 gm
Oil – 90 gm
Eggs – 2
Baking powder – 1 tsp
Baking soda – ½ tsp
Salt – ½ tsp
Dark chocolate – 40 gm
Cocoa powder – 1 tbl.sp
Milk – ¼ cup
Vanilla essence – 1 tsp

Method
Take a bowl and add oil and sugar and whisk it till it becomes creamy. Then add egg one by one along with vanilla essence and beat it for a minute with a hand blender.
In another bowl, sieve together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
Then little by little add it to the egg mixture and then with the help of a spatula do cut and fold. If the batter is too thick add little milk.
In another bowl, take dark chocolate, add little water and keep it for boiling till chocolate melts completely.
In another bowl take 2 to 3 tbl.sp of batter and add this melted chocolate and mix well, add cocoa powder too and again mix it well.
Now take a grease baking mould, put little white batter, spread it and then put little chocolate batter, with a fork make design. Again pour white batter and then chocolate batter, design it and then bake it in a preheated oven at 180 degree celcius for 35 to 40 minutes.
When cool demould it.

Eggless Lemon Tuti Fruiti Cake

Ingredients
refined flour - 150 gm
powdered sugar - 100 gm
oil/butter - 75 gm
yogurt - 50 gm
baking powder - 1 tsp
baking soda - 1/4 tsp
lemon zest - 1 tsp
lemon juice - 1 tbl.sp
tuti fruiti  - 1/2 cup
hot water - 1/2 cup
vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Method

In a bowl take oil, powdered sugar, yogurt, vanilla essence, lemon zest, lemon juice and whisk it till creamy.
In another bowl, sieve together refined flour, baking soda and baking powder and gradually mix into the batter. You can add little hot water if the batter is too thick. Add tuti fruiti  by first coating it with
one tsp of refined flour so that it does not get settled down.

Take a baking mould and grease it with oil or butter and  then dust it with flour. Pour this batter and
bake in a preheated oven at 180 degree celicus for 30 to 40 minutes.

Remove and frost it with a mixture of icing sugar, lemon and little milk if required and apply all over it. Serve.

Coffee Cake Recipe

Ingredients
refined flour - 100 gm
powdered sugar - 100 gm
oil - 100 gm
egg - 1
baking powder - 1 tsp
baking soda - 1/2 tsp
vanilla essence - 1 tsp
make hot coffee syrup - 1/2 cup

for icing
refrigerated cream - 250 gm
icing sugar - 4 to 5 tbl.sp
vanilla essence - 1 tsp
coffee syrup - 2 to 3 tsp to which 1 tbl.sp cocoa powder is mixed, boiled and cooled


Method
In a bowl take oil and egg and whisk it for few seconds. Then to it add powdered sugar and again whip it. With the help of sieve, add refined flour, baking soda, baking powder, then add vanilla essence. Whip it  well and then add half of  hot coffee syrup. Mix well and pour it in a baking mould and bake it in a preheated oven at 180 degree celcuis for 25 to 30 minutes or till done.

For making cream icing
To the leftover coffee syrup add one tbl.sp of cocoa powder boil it and then cool it down.
Take 250 gm cold thick cream and whip it. Add slowly icing sugar 4 to 5 tbl.sp and vanilla essence and again whip it well. Refrigerate it for some time and then remove it and again whip it by adding  2 to 3 tsp of coffee syrup. Whip it again and then refrigerate it.

When the cake is ready, remove from the mould and let it cool down completely.
Cut cake evenly from top and then sprinkle little coffee syrup on the cake and then spread cream and sprinkle choco strand. Refrigerate it for some time and then serve.