Red Wine Nutty cup cakes

     

Red Wine Nutty cup cakes
I Absolutely hate the way they look.
It’s the first time I have ever tried my hands on Icing so its fine.Though the optimistic me then thought, so what!!! Even if they are messy, they taste even better than Messi.. wink!! 

And my husband said look, they even resemble a christmas tree and that made me happy.

Recently a friend told me, I enjoy cooking but can't even think about Baking. Well, So did I girls, whenever I used to look at these professional Bakers, I would always wonder will I ever ? And that made me try my hands on Baking. It's no science but a perfect combination of ingredients and quantity. I have tried and failed many times but I never gave up until finally I perfected them and gifted these babies to my sister for her House warming and she absolutely loved it and gave me order to make more, hehe :)

So here goes the recipe of Cupcakes from an amateur cook to all my future super star chefs :)

Cooking Time - 30 minutes
Preparation Time - 10 minutes
Serving - 6

Ingredients:

1 cup of self rising flour 1
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon powder 
¼ tsp baking soda 
2 room temperature eggs 
1 cup melted butter (approx 100 gas) 
50-100 gms brown sugar or regular sugar or palm sugar (cur) 
1 over ripe banana 
½ lemon juice 
1 tsp vanilla essence 
2 tsp curd handful of walnuts, raisin,Almonds - soaked in rum/red wine (for about two hours or overnight) 

For icing-

1-2 drops of yellow & green food colour

100 gas Icing sugar 

1 tsp vanilla essence 

100 gas Butter (I used salted ) 

Method:

In a pan on medium heat melt the butter until it turns slightly golden brown. 

Take a big bowl and whisk together sugar and butter. Slowly add vanilla essence and the eggs to it. Whisk. 

Now pour this mixture in a grinder and add banana, lemon juice and curd to it and grind it once on a normal pressure till its smooth. 

Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon powder and keep it aside. 

Now slowly add the flour mixture into the wet mixture untill its smooth without lumps. Please don't over mix. 

Add the nuts to the mix and drink away the wine from the soak:) 

Line the cup cake baking tray with butter and sprinkle some dry flour on it so that the cupcakes/Muffins come off easy. 

Pour the mixture and cook in the oven at 175 degree celsius. Since i have a Micowave/convection so i bake mine in that.press pre-heat/microwave convection button, set temperature to 180 for about 25-30 minutes. 

Check after 25 mins for the doneness. Put a knife in it and if it comes out clean then viola! Its done. cool on a wire,unfold and enjoy as hot muffins or let them cool down and place them into the cupcake liners. 

For Icing:

Take a bowl and add 50-100 gms room temperature melted butte. Since I wanted mine to be salty, so I used Amul butter. 

Add the Icing sugar available in the market.Whisk till its smooth and fluffy. 

Add 1 drop of yellow and 1 drop of green food colour and vanilla essence to it.Whisk. 

Add this into a cone and decorate however you like. 

Sprinkle your favourite toppings like chic chips, starts,fresh fruits,tutty fruity or chopped almonds.

Freeze it if you like them cold like I did. 

Keep cooking, Keep Loving :)

Banana Cinnamon Pancakes with Honey & Chocolate chips

Banana Cinnamon Pancakes with Honey & Chocolate chips

I Love Everything about Holidays. They just make you want to gorge on all the utterly Butterly delicious food. 

Since its Start of the weekend, so what better way to start your day with a wholesome relish breakfast - Pancakes :)

Ingredients:

1 cup of All purpose flour (Maida)
2 tsp of Baking powder
1 tsp salt
¼ tsp baking soda
1 cup Milk
3 tbsp melted Butter (Room temperature)
1 egg
2 tbsp white sugar
2 tbsp cinnamon powder
4 tbsp honey
2 finely chopped bananas
1 tbsp powdered Sugar
Choco chips

Method:

In a bowl whisk butter and sugar till nice and smooth. Add the egg and  milk to it. Whisk.

Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, Cinnamon powder , salt and keep it aside.

Now make a well in the centre and add wet mixture to it slowly. Mix until smooth.

Heat the Skillet on low/medium flame and brush some oil on it. Pour the batter  in a single go and don’t mix it. Just drop it on the pan.

once it starts to dry up , check from the side and turn it upside down. It should look golden brown from the done up side.

Serving:

Place one pancake and drizzle some honey onto it. 

Add finely chopped banana to it and sprinkle some cinnamon powder. 

Add another layer of pancake and drizzle some honey onto it. 

Sift some powdered sugar on top and add chocolate chips or more banana, whatever you like !

Happy experimenting. Feel free to comment and ask for anything :)

Footnotes:

You can replace banana with apple,plum, pear, strawberry,cherry, blueberry etc.

cheers:)

Keep cooking, Keep loving :)