Eggless Apple Pie : Mother's Day Special!

"All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my Angel Mother."

A very happy mother's day people!

I know it's a very special day for all of us and I am glad we have a day to celebrate mothers! For those who dislike the mother's day concept, I have just one thing to say- We love celebrating Mother's day and making our mothers feel special today and that does not mean we just don't bother about her for the rest of the days! Those of you who don' t agree  to this, you can continue to argue and we will continue to celebrate and we all know who wins! :-) :-)

God, I seriously don't understand why people question celebration?!!
Celebration of any kind is such a good thing! We will celebrate , anyway! :-)

Well, my mother is my best friend,  my angel, my guide and my inspiration and the best thing is that she is a part of all my cooking escapades.Her touch and approval completes my experiments in the kitchen.
I owe my interest in cooking to her.When we were kids, she used to bake cakes, biscuits, pizzas, patties, make ice creams and try out new -new recipes every now and then.Her involvement in cooking ignited the spark in me to cook and the spark has led me to take cooking as my passion.

Mamma and I  are hard core gourmets as well and love experimenting with food and I find that we have similar choice and taste when it comes to food- which is another great aspect to our Mother- Daughter bond-our food connection! :-)

Now coming back to my mother's day special apple pie experiment :-

I wanted to make something special today and suddenly it struck that Apple Pie will go well with the theme of day- Apple pie for the Apple of my eye! :-)

I remember having a sumptuous home-made Apple pie made by my dearest aunt almost 10 years back , and since that day, I wanted to try making apple pie someday and thankfully it was today that I finally made it- I was feeling too lazy to hunt for my aunt's recipe , so I just googled and came across a recipe that i found interesting enough to experiment with and it turned out to be a real good one.

This one is very healthy as it is whole wheat flour based, is eggless and contains very little sugar and olive oil.All in all very low in calories and high on taste! -Yes, it tasted awesome! The only thing that I felt I could improve on is the shape, the folding of the two layers...but otherwise this recipe was great- very easy and yummylicious!

The only thing that I changed in this was that I chopped smaller cubes of apple.That's it.

Recipe Link- http://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/apple-pie-recipe-vegan-apple-pie/

Go for it!

Happy Takes ! & Happy Bites!

Eggless Whole Wheat Cinnamon Cake

I tried this healthy cake today and it came out really well.
I wanted to make an eggless cake and a healthy one for that and when I came across this recipe, I found it was matching my criteria perfectly well.

This healthy bite is a real melting moment.It is very moist and very Indian in texture and taste.My 87 year old grand ma completely loved it.She said this is the best eggless cake she has ever had.Her compliment really made my day!

I personally would like to call it a perfect healthy Indian Cake.
This one will surely satiate your taste buds if you are all for the cinnamon flavour , moreover you can have a guilt-free cakey treat with this! :-)

Recipe Link- http://mariasmenu.com/desserts/eggless-cinnamon-cake

Do try and enjoy!
Happy Takes! & Happy Bites! 

Baked Gujiyas-Holi Special!

Hello Everyone!

I have been wanting to share so many of my recent culinary experiences so desperately, but somehow last two weeks were reasonably busy for me and I couldn't do so. :-(
Never mind, finally I made it here, today! :-)

This time we had Mama and Nani for Holi and as Mamma and I were about to start our customary Gujiya preparation, Mama just mentioned that these days people are shifting their preferences from fried to baked gujiyas and that very moment I decided let's go for "Baked" gujiyas this Holi!-All thanks to Mama for uttering the word!- You never know when and where you can get a tempting clue to work upon! :-)

So then I searched on the net , read few Gujiya baking procedures and finally made all forms of Gujiyas- Chandrakalas, Lawanglatas, Satori. Chandrakala is a round flower shaped gujiya which has khoya stuffing , is fried and then dipped in Sugar syrup (Chashni) and immediately taken out of the syrup.  Lawanglata is also a wrapped maida round stuffed with khoya with two cloves inserted one opposite the other-I call it clutch purse gujiya!-It really looks like a clutch purse! This is also dipped in sugar syrup and taken out immediately.
Chandrakalas and Lawanglatas are actually my Nani special gujiyas! :-)
Satori is a Maharashtrian delicacy.It is basically Puri sized stuffed khoya paratha which is tawa roasted in ghee.I learned this from a dear friend.

I thought we'll make all of these shapes including the traditional gujiya shape but we'll make the baked version of it, this time- healthier and I can now very confidently say, tastier too! :-)

Baked version is way better than the fried one -it's crispier, lighter , tastier and most importantly an healthier alternative!

Do try and relish!

Baking Procedure:-

1. Prepare the khoya stuffed structures in the same way as we make it for making fried gujiyas. The only difference is that we just bake these instead of frying.
2. Preheat the oven at 200 deg Celsius.
3. Grease a baking tray and place gujiyas on it in such a way that they don't touch each other.
4. Bake for 10 minutes and then flip the gujiyas to the other side on the tray.
5. Bake the other side for 10 mins again.
6. Take out .The Gujiyas are ready! :-)

Happy Takes! & Happy Bites! :-)

Coconut Doughnut Cake

Hello, everyone!

Here's my first blogpost in this blog-i have been thinking since ages to start a food blog , just to give an outlet to my passion for cooking and love for food.I'm glad, i finally did come up with one! :-)

Hoping to have fun here...to share everything related to cooking and food that interests me .

I must say, cooking and food drives me, rejuvenates me, excites me, heals me when i feel low or have a bad day-in short it makes me feel completely alive!


Now coming back to this post...

I was just leisurely enjoying my holiday , when suddenly I had a strong craving to have something made out of coconut milk powder or something with coconut....so i just searched and searched on the net to find some good recipes.I was basically thinking of using the maggi coconut milk powder in the cake recipe.I did a lot of random search on it and did land up with a cake recipe that was using coconut milk powder but somehow i didn't feel like going with it...and somehow I landed up at this food blog:-

http://www.nisahomey.com/2011/11/my-ultimate-coconut-cakestep-by-step.html

As soon as I finished reading it, I knew i wanted to bake this.Yes, you have got it right-I am a very moody cook-i basically go with my instincts when it comes to cooking...and most of the times, even i don't know what i'll be cooking next. :-)...It always has to be something that I feel like having at that particular time. :-)


For the recipe- please check out the link above. I loved the recipe.It's completely accurate. Thumbs Up to it!

Happy Takes! & Happy Bites! :-)

P.S- I have just changed the name to suit the shape. :-)