Sweetheart Chocolate Cake

 Sweetheart Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

All purpose flour - 3/4 Cup
Granulated sugar - 1/4 Cup
Packed light brown sugar - 1/4 Cup
Cocoa powder - 3 tbsp
Baking soda 1/2 tsp
Milk - 1/2 Cup
Margarine - 3 tbsp
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp

For Chocolate Frosting

Margarine - 1 tbsp
Powdered Sugar - 2/3 Cup
Cocoa powder - 1tbsp
Milk - 2 tsp

Method

Heat oven to 350°F.
Grease and flour 8-inch square baking pan.
Stir together flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in medium bowl.
Add milk, vanilla extract and beat with whisk until smooth.
Pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake for 20 to 25 mins or until the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool completely. Transfer to cutting board and using a heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut cake into 4 hearts.

Chocolate frosting:

Mix all the ingredients and whisk until smooth, adjust the milk or the sugar powder according to the consistency needed to spread on the cake.
Spread chocolate frosting on top of two hearts and place remaining two hearts on top to make two small cakes. Enjoy!!

Good Morning with Banana Wheat Pancakes

Good Morning with Banana Wheat Pancakes
Like my boy most kids love to eat pancakes for breakfast. This is the healthiest pancake recipe that kids and even adults would love to eat.. Making pancake from scratch is not too complicated, for me from the scratch to the plate it just took 10 to 15 mins. Cleaning up the mess after took more time...today I used banana to mix with the batter and I am gonna try with other different fruits too. The pancakes didn't come out perfect round and even more looked like small paratha to me(b'coz I added wheat). Apart from the appearance the pancake was delicious and it was soft and fluffy. Though my sunny loved it he didn't have much time to eat more..late for school. I got to make this on holidays for him. Even though I add sugar my boy liked with the maple syrup.

Ingredients
Wheat flour - 1/2 cup
All purpose flour - 1/2 cup
Ripe banana - 1
Egg - 1
Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 2tsp
Salt to taste


Method
In a large bowl combine the flours, sugar, salt, baking powder and egg. In a separate bowl mash the banana. Mix the banana with the flour and add some water and make it to nice thick consistency. Heat a lightly oiled griddle and pour a scoop of batter onto the griddle and spread little to make a small round shape. Cook until pancakes are golden brown on both sides, serve hot with syrub and fruits.

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Celebration time!!!! the reason for the celebration is my sister in law("sil") has started a play school at Bangalore. My hearty congratulations and wishing her all success in her new venture. I am very much attached to my "sil" she is more like a mom to me. As a part of celebration I made this pineapple upside down cake. I am not very good at baking. I choose especially this cake b'coz my hubby loves this one. Any way this recipe turned out to be a great success for bad baker like me. Great success I said as my son loved this cake b'coz he likes only chocolate cake.

Ingredients:
Packed light brown sugar - 2cup
Butter - 1 stick
Sliced pineapple - 1 can
Undrained maraschino cherries
Eggs - 3
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
White sugar - 1 cup
Baking powder - 2 tsp
All purpose flour - 1 and 1/2 cup
Salt - 1/4 tsp

Procedure:
This recipes goes on using cast iron skillet ,since I didn't have one I just melted the butter separately and poured on the cake pan. If you have iron skillet ,directly melt butter on it over low flame. After melting the butter mix in the brown sugar. Combine slices of pineapple with the butter and brown sugar mixture. Reserve the pineapple juice in the can. Place the cherry in the middle of each pineapple and in between the pineapples or how ever you like. In a large bowl separate the eggs. Beat the egg yolks until fluffy. Add 1/2 cup reserved pineapple juice, white sugar and vanilla essence and mix until sugar is dissolved. Sift baking powder, flour and salt and add to the egg yolk mixture and combine well. Beat the white egg separately until stiff and fold into the egg yolk mixture. Add the mixture to the butter, brown sugar and pineapple mixture. Pre-heat the oven for 350*F and bake for 30 mins. Let it cool for 10 mins then turn upside down onto a plate. Thats it upside down pineapple cake is ready. Eat when its warm . Enjoy!!!

2 Minute Cup cake

2 Minute Cup cake

When i first heard about this, i was really apprehensive about the taste. And finally one day there were no desserts in my refrigerator other than ice-cream when i was really craving for a dessert. Then this stuck in my mind and  i thought may be i could give it a try. To my surprise i really liked it. The cake was moist and really good. It was soo easy and i can make it in minutes.... just 2 minutes.... Awesome!!!!
What matters when you can have a warm cake with too little work...... :)

Preparation time = 5 mins
Serves = 1
Calories = Approx 140 / Serving

INGREDIENTS -
3 Tbsp All purpose flour
3 Tbsp Sugar
1 Tbsp Cocoa powder (Hershey's)
2 Tbsp Whisked egg
3 Tbsp Oil
3 Tbsp Chocolate chips (Optional)
1 Tsp Vanilla extract

PREPARATION-
1. Mix all the ingredients in a cup.
2. Microwave for 2:40 mins.
3. Its done!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yayyyyyy!!!!!!!