Oatmeal, raisins & choco chips cookies (Eggless & with eggs both version)

Oatmeal cookies are not new in our home as its liked by everyone hence an all time favourite snack for our family. Secondly its healthy too :). I have prepared them with & without eggs and frankly speaking didn't find much difference. They are crunchy outside and chewy inside. Have a nice buttery flavour with a sweetness of raisins & chocolate. I also add cinnamon powder to it as its my one of the favourite flavours, its totally optional but I must admit that it takes cookies to the next level :))))

Tomorrow I am planning to meet one of my foodie friend, so just thought to bake something for him. Made few goodies and will upload soon. The one thing which I thought to prepare first were these, as I am pretty sure it will be loved :). Presenting a food goodie to a foodie friend is quite tough na........But making my fingers crossed, I have packed them. 

They are very easy to prepare and have a longer shelflife. These can be stored in an airtight containers for a longer time. Having one cookie with a cup of milk is very healthy and believe me kids just love it. Once I prepared it for my niece and she became crazy for them, used to have them in her breakfast without any fuss, she is just 4 :))))). So lets quickly run through the ingredients following the method :)

I am also posting here a video for an eggless version, so all my vegetarian friends can see it. I didn't add chocolate chips in this version, if you like you can add 1/4 cup of chocolate chips too. 

Ingredients :

• Rolled oats - 1 + 1/2 cup (Old fashioned or quick any can be used)
• All purpose flour/Maida/ Plain flour - 3/4 cup
• Light Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup packed
• Castor sugar - 1/4 cup
• Butter - 1/2 cup (at room temperature)
• Egg - 1 nos 
• Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp
• Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - 1/2 tsp
• Cinnamon Powder - 1/4 tsp (optional)
• Raisins - 1/2 cup
• Choco chips - 1/4 cup

Method :

• Preheat your oven at 180 ° C/350 ° F
• In a big bowl beat butter till fluffy & light. 
• Now add both the sugars and continue beating till mixed well and the mixture becomes fluffy.
• Now add one egg and vanilla essence.
• In a separate bowl sift & whisk all the dry ingredients - All purpose flour + Baking Soda + Cinnamon powder + Salt.
• Fold in the dry ingredients to the wet (butter mixture)
• Incorporate oats + raisins + choco chips.
• Place the cookies with the help of ice cream scoop or spoons on the baking tray lined with parchment paper/aluminum foil.
• Bake them on the middle shelf for 17-20 minutes. If you like your cookies to be more chewer and not very much crispy then bake them till 15 minutes only. 
• Take them out, let them rest for 5 minutes on the baking sheet. Later transfer them to a cooling rack and let them completely cool for atleast an hour. Once cooled store them in an air tight jar.

Note : 

• I have used brown sugar, but if its not available then you can use normal white granulated sugar too. If you can grind the sugar then that will also work great.
• Once baked, cookies tend to get bit harder when comes in contact with air. So don't panic if they are soft on touching after 15-17 minutes.
• Adding raisins & choco chips is totally up to your choice.

Enjoy with your family & friends :)

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Thanks & Happy Baking 

Priyanka :) 

Chocolate Sponge cake - Eggless

I baked this beautiful cake with lots of love for my friend's daughter. She is such a cute little adorable chatter box that you can't resist to spend time with her. One day she told me " I love chocolate cake but I don't prefer any topping on that" :))))) then I asked her "due you like any fruits or any nuts with that ??", she simply replied "nopes" and ran away. So just thought to make her happy with a simple chocolate sponge cake. Before preparing this I just had my fingers crossed because these days the kids are too choosey and specially me who doesn't know a lot about kids :)))). But yes the cake came out very light, spongy, moist and full of flavor. The best part - its eggless, I replaced eggs with buttermilk. So lets quickly see the ingredients followed by the method.

Ingredients :

I have divided the ingredients list in two parts- the dry & wet ingredients. This way it will be easy for you to follow this.

Dry ingredients: 

• All Purpose flour/Maida/Plain flour - 1 cup + 2 tbsps
• Baking Powder - 1 tsp
• Baking Soda - 1 tsp
• Cocoa Powder  (unsweetened) - 1/4 cup
• Salt - a generous pinch

Wet ingredients :

• Brown sugar - 1/2 cup
• White granulated sugar - 3/4 cup
• Buttermilk - 1 cup (at room temperature)
• Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
• Vegetable Oil - 1/4 cup
• Black coffee - 3/4 cup (optional) To prepare, just add 1 tsp instant coffee powder in 1/2 cup boiling water

 Method :

• First preheat the oven at 180°C. Grease & flour the baking tin, if you want you can line with parchment paper/Butter paper.
• Sieve the dry ingredients together atleast 3 times and keep aside, this give more aeration in the flour and helps in making the cake light.
• In other bowl mix oil + sugar + Buttermilk + Vanilla essence. After they are well combined add the dry ingredients and fold in gently. 
• Once mix well, add the boiling coffee (If you are not adding coffee then just add plain boiling water).
• The batter will be runny, but that's the way it has to be :)))
• Pour the batter in tin.
• Bake it on the middle rack for 45-50 mins or unless a tooth pick inserted in the cake comes out clean. Mine took exactly 50 minutes. But keep checking after 40 -45 minutes as every oven vary :)
• When done, take it out and give a rest of 2-3 minutes, demold and cool on a rack.
• Tadaaaaa your cake is ready.

Enjoy with the frosting of your own choice or like this only.

Note : 

• If you are adding egg, then add one egg and make the quantity of buttermilk half and also the baking soda will be halved. 
• Coffee gives a very nice kick to it therefore I added otherwise its optional. Boiling water helps it making moist.
• If you don't have brown sugar simply replace it with white one. 
• For the buttermilk - just add 1 tbsp of lemon juice/white vinegar to 1 cup milk, allow it to stand for 5 minutes. Your buttermilk is ready.

 Thanks n Happy Baking
Priyanka :))))