Baking with Merry

Last weekend I stocked up some extra mangoes to try out some bookmarked recipes with them.....The first was this Mango Loaf Cake, which I found on Divya's blog .....And speaking about her blog, I like it for its simplicity...Also, she's got a pictorial representation of each steps too!, which I haven't seen in any other blog....I have tried out many of her recipes like the Biscuit Pudding , Black Forrest Cake , Coffee cake with Coffee Buttercream Icing , Butter cake with Chocolate Icing , and the  Marble Cake ....and planning to bake her Whole Wheat Garlic Pull-apart rolls pretty soon!! Below are the ingredients I used to baked this cake... Ingredients: Recipe Source: Easycooking All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cups Baking powder - 2 tsp Salt - 1/4 tsp Eggs - 2 Sugar - 1 cup Fresh Mangoes chopped - 1/2 cup Yogurt -  1/2 cup Vanilla extract - 2 tsp Butter - 1/2 cup Method: Preheat the oven to 180 C for 15 mins and butter a loaf pan. Melt the butter...

I had few over-ripened bananas left in my fruit bowl and so I was searching for ways to put them into use. I was browsing through few blogs for a banana cake recipe, when I came across this banana muffins recipe on Sharmis Passions .....I haven't baked a muffin to date, so when I saw this extremely easy recipe, I decided to bake it.....This was my first try with muffins and I totally loved baking it...More 'cos it involved less fuss (unlike cakes!) and the entire procedure was quite simple too....And, believe me it was tasty (reminded me of Bonda which we get in Kerala) ....yum!! Ingredients: Recipe Source: Sharmi's Passions Flour - 3/4 cup Banana - 2 big sized Oil/Butter - 1/4 cup Granulated sugar - 1/4 cup + 2 tbsps Baking powder - 1/2 tsp Baking soda - 1/2 tsp Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp Walnuts/Almonds/Raisins - 2 tbsps, finely chopped Method: Sieve flour, baking powder and baking soda at least twice and keep aside. Peel the skin of the b...

This cupcake recipe is similar to the " Warm-molten centered chocolate cupcake " but in a different title!!! Ingredients: Recipe Source: Easy Chocolate by Parragon Books Butter/Margarine (softened) - 175 gms Caster Sugar - 175 gms Large eggs - 3 Self-raising flour - 250 gms Cocoa powder - 3 tbsp Plain chocolate - 175 gms Icing sugar - for dusting Method: Preheat the oven to 190 C. Arrange a muffin pan with paper baking cases. Put the butter, caster sugar, eggs, flour and cocoa powder in a large bowl and using a handheld electric mixer, beat together until just smooth. Spoon half of the mixture into the paper cases. Using a teaspoon, make an indentation in the centre of each cake. Break the chocolate evenly and place a piece on top of each indentation. Then spoon the remaining cake mixture on top. Bake the cupcakes in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until well risen and springy to touch. Leave the cupcakes to cool for 2-3 minutes, before servin...

Hi buddies.....I am back! So, how are you enjoying your kids vacation???Me and my kids had a wonderful time back at home...We had actually planned for a 2weeks hols, but it extended to a month....The best part of the hols was the unexpected wedding of my cousin sister.....So it was shopping, shopping and more shopping.....*phew*.....I had to shop for 3 functions- for the fixing, the engagement and the marriage!!And choosing sarees and jewels for the bride was quite tough; she was totally confused and seemed to like everything the salesman showed her.....*smiles*..... Tales apart....back to the present...My son was persuading me to bake a cake for him ever since we came down from our hols!!But I was in no mood to bake anything....Finally, yesterday I baked these cupcakes for my kids..... Found this cupcake recipe from one of my books. I even found a similar recipe but with a different title in another book. However, both the recipes yielded the same cupcake though! ...