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Eggless Carrot Cake

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Eggless Carrot Cake - Ingredients Maida - 3/4 cup (135 gms) Wheat flour - 1/4 cup (35 gms) Grated carrot - 1/2 cup heaped Curd - 3/4 cups (200 ml) Olive oil - 1/4 cup (60 ml) Milk - 2.5 tbsp Granulated Sugar -1/2 cup (110 gms) Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp  Cinnamon powder - 1/4 tsp (optional) Baking powder - 1/2 tsp Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp Salt -1/4 tsp Walnuts, chopped - handful Method: 1.Grate carrots finely and keep aside. Sieve maida,wheat flour with baking soda and baking powder, set aside. In a mixing bowl add curd, sugar, milk and olive oil. Mix well until sugar completely dissolves. 2.Then add cinnamon powder, vanilla  essence  and give a quick stir. Finally fold in carrots then add maida+wheat flour mixture. 3.Whisk it well to form a smooth creamy flowing batter. You can fold in chopped walnuts into the batter itself. I forgot to add it and remembered only after I added the batter to the tin so just sprinkled on the top :)  Pr...

Eggless Rava (sooji) Dates Cake

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Ingredients: Rava/Sooji - 1 cup (120 gms) Seedless Dates - 3/4 cup chopped or blended (100 gms) Milk - 1 cup (250 ml) Oil - 2 tbsp Ghee - 2 tbsp Granulated Sugar - 1/4 cup (55 gms) Baking powder - 1 tsp Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp Cashews - 3 to 4 broken into small pieces Method Roast the rava on medium flame for 3-4 mins or till nice aroma comes and keep aside. Mix the sugar, cardamom powder, cashews and baking powder well and add it to rava. Next add milk,oil, ghee to the rava mixture and mix well. Finally add the chopped/blended dates and mix till all ingredients are mixed well. Keep aside for 10 minutes. Pre-heat the oven to 180 deg C and bake it for 30-35 minutes. Check it after 25mins, check with a fork if it comes out clean ur cake is done Allow it to cool completely before cutting.I was not patient enough and so the pieces werent shaped perfectly :) My Notes : The orginal recipe didnt call for roasting the rava but I tried it and the cake...