Baking with Merry

 Depression Cake!!! Sounds weird right??? Well, according to Wikipedia "A Depression cake is a type of cake that was commonly made during the Great Depression. The ingredients include little or no milk, sugar, butter or eggs, because they were then either expensive or hard to get. Similar cakes are known as "War Cake," as they avoided ingredients that were scarce or were being conserved for the use of soldiers. A common Depression Cake is also known as "Boiled Raisin Cake," or "Milkless, Eggless, Butterless Cake." Found the recipe for this milkless, eggless, butterless and even bowless cake from Sweet Little Bluebird while searching for a butterless cake recipe...Worth baking!!!  I coated the cake with chocolate ganache. Chocolate Crazy Cake Ingredients: Recipe Source: Sweet Little Bluebird All-purpose flour - 1 1/2 cups Unsweetened cocoa powder - 3 tbsp Castor Sugar - 1 cup Baking soda - 1 tsp Salt - 1/2 tsp White vine

Ever since  I started baking, one blog I follow and drool over is   Deeba Rajpal 's  Passionate about Baking  aka PAB...... She also writes for Times of India's online baking blog under the name  The Rabid Baker . Though I had jotted down a few of her recipes, to this date haven't baked anything!! This recipe was adapted from her recipe for Whole wheat Apple Almond Tray B ake which appeared on The Rabid Baker. Since we don't like fresh fruits in our cake, I choose to leave the apple behind and thus ended up with this Whole wheat Almond Squares . This recipe is worth a try, unlike my earlier wheat cake . Since it's made of wheat  flour  and ground almonds it tends to be more on the healthier side! Ingredients: Recipe Adapted from: the Rabid Baker by Deeba Rajpal Whole wheat flour - 140g Ground almonds - 40g Cinnamon powder - 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp Baking powder - 1 tsp Baking soda - 1/2 tsp Butter @ room temp - 1