Simple vanilla cake recipe

ngredients

• 2 cups (500 mL) sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2-1/2 cups (625 mL) all-purpose flour
• 1 cup (250 mL) milk
• 3/4 cup (175 mL) vegetable oil
• 2-1/4 teaspoons (11 mL) baking powder
• 1 teaspoon (5 mL) vanilla

Cooking Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Line two 9-inch (23-cm) round cake pans or one 9x13-inch (23 x 33 cm) rectangular baking pan with parchment paper. Grease the paper and the sides of the pan well.
2. In a large mixing bowl, with an electric mixer, beat sugar and eggs together until slightly thickened, about 1 minute. Add flour, milk, oil, baking powder, and vanilla and beat for another minute, just until the batter is smooth and creamy. Don't overbeat. Pour batter into the prepared baking pan(s).
3. Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until the tops are golden and a toothpick poked into the center of the layer comes out clean. (A single rectangular pan will take longer to bake than two round ones.) Loosen the sides of the cake from the pan with a thin knife, then turn out onto a rack and peel off the paper. Let cool completely before covering with frosting, if desired.

Chewy oat meal cookies with raisin

Ingredients

1 1/4	cup	flour, all-purpose
1/2	teaspoon	baking soda
1/2	teaspoon	salt
1 1/2	teaspoon	cinnamon
1 1/2	cup	oatmeal	(not, uncooked instant)
1/2	cup	sugar
1/2	cup	brown sugar	light firmly packed
1	cup	raisins, seedless
1/2	cup	vegetable oil
1	large	egg
1/4	cup	milk if need for right consistency

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets.

Put 1/14 c flour, 1/2 ts baking soda, 1/2 ts salt, 1 1/2 ts cinnamon, and 1/2 ts nutmeg in a large mixing bowl.

Stir until well mixed. Put the 1 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 c sugar, 1/2 c brown sugar, 1 c raisins, 1/2 c oil, 1 egg, and 1/4 c milk in another large mixing bowl. Stir until well mixed.

Add the flour mixture to the oatmeal mixture. Stir the two together.

Measure out dough using super full teaspoon. Place mounds about 2 inches apart. Wet fingers and press each cookie down jus a little.

Bake 8 ~ 10 minute or until lightly browned on top.

Servings: 30 - two inch round cookies

Simple White Cake from allrecipes.com

Ingredients

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 cup milk

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x9 inch pan or line a muffin pan with paper liners.
2. In a medium bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder, add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Finally stir in the milk until batter is smooth. Pour or spoon batter into the prepared pan.
3. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven. For cupcakes, bake 20 to 25 minutes. Cake is done when it springs back to the touch.

Ashoka -Nalini

Moong dal -¾ cup

Pachai arisi flour (rice)- ¼ cup

Milk -1 cup

Water- 3 cup

Cardamom minced - 5pods

Cashew nut fried in gee - 1/4cup

Ghee-1/2 cup

Jagrri chopped -2 cup

Fry moong dal for 5 min to reduce the dal small.

Add moong dal with rice flour + 3 cups of water + milk

Put lid on the pressure cooker and bring to boil. Reduce to simmer and cook for 20 minutes (five whistles).

Mix well the cooked dal and rice.

Add vellam/jaggri and mix in small flame. Add gee and cashew nut and cardamom.

Now it is ready to eat.

Coconut Burfi from Amma

Ingredients
grated coconut - 2cups
Fine rava - 3/4cups
Sugar - 1 and 1/2 cups
Cardamom minced - 5pods
Color -pinch of kasari powder(orange color)
Cashew nut fried in gee - 1/4cup
Ghee /clarified butter -50ml or 1/4 cup

Fry rava with 1 table spoon of ghee (clarified butter) for 5 minutes and keep aside
Fry coconut in 2 table spoons of ghee until it gets golden brown
Now mix rava, coconut, Cashew nuts and minced cardomom togeather

In a non stick pan dissolve the sugar in 1/2 cup of water and let it boil for 10 min with continues stirring until it is viscous like oil.

Now add the mixture of our ingredients in the sugar syrup and let it cook for 5-10 minutes until it gets kind of bubbling consistency. then add remaining ghee mix well and pore in the buttered plate.

after 5 minutes cut in to diamond shape.

Note: If you sugar syrup is not in right consistency the burfi either be too wet or too dry.

Banana Nut Cake

INGREDIENTS:

1/2 c butter at room temperature
3/4 c raw sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
2 lg ripe bananas mashed
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 c unsifted whole wheat flour
1 c coarsely chopped walnuts

Set the oven to 350 degrees and butter a 9-inch tube pan.

Put the butter into a large bowl and blend in sugar. Beat in the egg; add all ingredients except nuts. When well-blended, add nuts.

Bake about 50 minutes or a trifle longer. Just until the cake begins to shrink away from the sides of the pan. It should not be allowed to dry out in baking, but rather should have a moist, almost custardy texture.
Serve as is or with a blob of whipped cream and a few banana slices.