Eggless lemony blueberry muffins with crumble topping

Hello everyone, today I will be showing you all that how to prepare Lemony blueberry muffins with crumble topping. They are crunchy outside and very moist and soft inside. At the same time they are eggless too. Lemon has given a nice kick and took them to the next level, though its not overpowering at all. You can have them with a cup of coffee or just like that as a dessert.

I made these cupcakes specially for my younger little sisi (Sister), Its her Birthday today and also she got selected as a Probationary officer in Bank of Baroda hence wanna wish her with lots of love and wishes. She really made us proud :))))

So without wasting any of the time, lets quickly run through the ingredients following the method.

Here is the video link :

Ingredients : 
As usual, I have divided the ingredients list in two parts- the dry & wet ingredients. This way it will be easy for you to follow. 
Dry ingredients:

• All Purpose flour/Maida/Plain flour : 1 + 1/2 cups
• Baking Powder : 1 + 1/2 tsps
• Baking Soda : 1/2 tsp
• Salt : 1/4 tsp
• Blueberries : 3/4 cup

Wet ingredients : 

• White granulated sugar : 3/4 cup
• Thick Yogurt : 1/2 cup (at room temperature)
• Vegetable Oil : 1/4 cup 
• Lemon zest : 1 tsp

For the crumble topping :

• All purpose flour : 1/2 cup
• Sugar : 1/4 cup
• Chilled butter : 3 tbsps
• Lemon zest : 1/2 tsp

Method :

• First preheat the oven at 180°C. Line the muffin tray with liners or simply grease them with some oil or butter.
• Sieve the dry ingredients together atleast 3 times and keep aside, this give more aeration to the flour and helps in making the cake light.
• Coat the berries with a couple of tbsps of flour, this will prevent them from sinking to the bottom.
• In other bowl mix sugar + yogurt and whisk, you will get a very nice texture. To this add oil and lemon zest, mix well. 
• After they are well combined add the dry ingredients in two batches and fold in gently. Don't overmix, just make sure all the ingredients are well combined. Also add the blueberries and fold in gently.
• Pop the batter in molds.
• Prepare the crumble topping - mix together flour, sugar and zest. Then with the help of a fork mix in the chilled butter and form a breadcrumbs textured mixture. Sprinkle it a tbsp on each of the muffin (As shown in the video).
• Bake it on the middle rack for 20-25 mins or unless a tooth pick inserted comes out clean. Mine took exactly 25 minutes. But keep checking after 18-20 minutes as every oven vary as per the power.
• When done, take it out and give a rest of 5 minutes in the tin, then demold and cool on a cooling rack.

Enjoy !!!!!!

Note :

If using eggs, then replace 1/4 cup of yogurt with one egg, also omit baking soda.

Please do share your experiences and feedback with me in the below section of comments or on my Facebook page. I too have a You Tube channel please do visit for all the video recipes. All the links mentioned below :) 

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Thanks & Happy Baking

Priyanka :)

Spiced Carrot cake with walnuts (with eggs/eggless recipe-both)

Happiness is when your beloved Husband bakes his first cake while you're asleep and that too without any occasion. Sushant baked his first cake early morning, without any of my directions and also without any recipe. I was surprised to see the texture, it was just perfect. He woke up early morning and baked it. We didn't have any such plans but still he did it. Felt like I was on the top of the world. Though he was beaming a lot after it, but anything for this lovely cake :)
 

As it was a morning surprise hence I clicked it on the bed only. After a lot of tantrums, he wrote the recipe and sent to me, hence sharing with you all.

Ingredients :

• All-purpose flour/ Maida – 1 and 1/2 cups
• Baking powder – 1 and 1/4 tsps
• Baking soda – 1/2 tsp
• Cinnamon powder – 1 tsp
• Nutmeg powder – ½ tsp
• Brown Sugar – ½ cup firmly packed
• Granulated white Sugar – ¼ cup
• Grated carrots – 1 and ½ cups
• Walnuts – 1/2 cup chopped
• Vegetable Oil – 1/2 cup
• Large Eggs – 2
• Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp

Method :

• Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and dust a 6” diameter round pan.
• Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg and cinnamon and keep aside.
• Coat the chopped walnuts with a tbsp of flour mixture and keep aside.
• In a bowl mix the brown sugar and the grated carrots and keep aside for 8 to 10 minutes.
• In a large bowl whisk eggs, sugar and oil together. Now add the vanilla essence and whisk.
• Now add the grated carrot+sugar mixture and mix well. Add the flour mixture in small portions and gently fold in. Also add the walnuts and fold in.
• Transfer the mixture to greased pan and bake for 45-50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into center comes out clean (cover loosely with foil if over-browning). Stand in pan for 5 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool.

Enjoy warm with any ice cream or with coffee or tea. 

Notes :

• If you don't have brown sugar simply replace it with white one. 
• For the eggless recipe, simply replace 2 eggs with 1/2 cup of thick yogurt/curd and follow rest of the same recipe. 

Please do share your experiences and feedback with me in the below section of comments or on my Facebook page. I too have a You Tube channel please do visit for all the video recipes. All the links mentioned below :) 

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Thanks & Happy Baking
Priyanka and Sushant

 

Crusty Oats & whole wheat herbed Buns (Eggless)

Hello everyone, today I have got one of my trial recipe which came out perfect in one go and very much appreciated by my husband too. These days in CAL (Chef at Large) we all have a yeast mania, and our groupmates are playing with it and preparing various kinds of yummilicious breads. So just thought to do an experiment and viola!!!! it knocked quite well. 

 

These are the crusty buns which I made up with oats flour, combining it with whole wheat and plain flour (for gluten). They have a hard crust outside and soft inside. Also I added some herbs which took them to a next level. 

I served them with Tomato,carrot & coriander soup and couscous salad, believe me it was an out of world kind of lunch. They are so delicious that will be very often now made at our place. So lets look into the ingredients following the method.

Ingredients :

• Strong whole wheat flour : 1 + 1/2 cups (Strong means that it should have a high protein content approx 13-15 gms) If not available then use normal chapati flour.
• Plain flour/All purpose flour/Maida : 1 cup
• Oats flour : 1 cup (Grind quick/old fashioned oats)
• Dry active Yeast : 1 tbsp
• Sugar : 1 tsp
• Salt : 1 tsp
• Olive/veg oil : 3 tbsps
• Garlic powder : 1 + 1/2 tsps (If not available, then use 1 tsp of freshly grated garlic)
• Italian mixed herbs : 1 tbsp
• Lukewarm Milk : 1/2 cup + 3 tbsps for milk wash
• Lukewarm Water : 1/2 cup 
• Sesame seed : 1 tbsp (optional)
• Butter : 1 tbsp 

Method :

• Combine together yeast, Lukewarm water and sugar in a bowl, stir and keep aside for 10-15 minutes or until it starts to froth.
  
  

  
• In another mixing bowl, mix together oats flour, whole wheat flour, all purpose flour, herbs, garlic powder and salt.
• Pour in the yeast mixture and try to combine, add little by little warm milk  and make a sticky dough. This is how the dough should look like as in the picture. 
  
• Apply a little oil over the palms and take out the entire dough over the working surface. Knead for 7-10 minutes. You can use oil rather than using dry flour if its sticking a lot. After sometime you will see that it has formed up with gluten which results into a soft dough (it will be sticky at this stage well, but that's absolutely fine)
• Place the dough in a large greased bowl and brush the top with oil, cover with a kitchen towel and leave aside to rise in a warm place until doubled in volume. The best place I find is my oven keeping its light on (for about 1-1 1/2 hours).
• Once risen punch down the dough and divide this into 8 equal parts and shape them into smooth flat balls. The texture will not be very smooth.
• Place them onto a lightly greased baking tray lined with aluminum foil. Cover & leave in a warm place until doubled in volume.
• Once done brush them with milk wash and apply sesame seeds.
  
• Preheat oven to 190 ° C  and put a pan/tray filled with boiling water on the lower rack (For steam in the oven). Bake the buns for about 25-30 minutes or until the tops are lightly browned.
• Take out from the oven and apply butter, keep them onto the cooling rack and they are done.

Tips :

• Be patient while frothing the yeast and also proofing the dough.
• Adding herbs & garlic is optional or you can add the flavours of your choice.
• Don't apply a lot of dry flour while kneading the dough, this may lead to dense buns. 

Please do share your experiences and feedback with me in the below section of comments or on my Facebook page. I too have a You Tube channel please do visit for all the video recipes. All the links mentioned below :) 

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Thanks & Happy Baking
Priyanka

Banana & Walnut Cake (Eggless)

Hi all, recently upgraded to a DSLR (finally!!!!!!) and also crossed my 1500 likes on Facebook page, so double celebrations time. Hence thought to prepare some sweet and therefore prepared Banana & walnut cake. Being baking a new passion, I always try to get more eggless recipes as these can be followed by both non-vegetarian and vegetarian friends :))))

Its just two days I got my new camera and working on it. Goshh!!!!!!! its so difficult & complicated to work with, but I am pretty sure will overcome it and share upgraded pics soon with you guys.

Talking about the cake now ;), its supermoist as I used oil and yoghurt, Its light & spongy. Full of flavours of Banana, cinnamon. As coffee enhances the flavor of chocolate in the same manner cinnamon also enhances the flavour of banana. I have used the over-ripped bananas here (those which have large black spots on the skin). Actually these bananas are more sweeter and gives very nice flavour to cakes, smoothies. So no more throwing of those dark colored bananas :)). Walnuts & bananas are a great combination together, walnut gives a very nice crunch to the cake. So guys with so many goodness why are we waiting then ????? Lets quickly run through the ingredients following the method :))))

Video :-

 

Ingredients :

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

Dry ingredients: 

• All Purpose flour/Maida/Plain flour - 1 cup
• Baking Powder - 1 tsp
• Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
• Cinnamon Powder - 1/4 tsp
• Salt - a generous pinch
• Walnuts - 1/4 cup (roughly chopped)

Wet ingredients :

• Brown sugar - 1/2 cup
• White granulated sugar - 2 tbsps
• Thick Yogurt - 1/4 cup (at room temperature)
• Vegetable Oil - 1/4 cup 
• Banana - 2 medium sized (overripped)
• Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp (optional- I didn't add it)

Method :

• First preheat the oven at 180°C. Grease & flour the baking tin, if you want, 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.
• Now mix in a couple of tbsps of flour with the walnuts and coat well, this will prevent sinking walnuts. Keep aside.
• In other bowl mix oil + sugar + yogurt + Vanilla essence (if adding). Also add mashed bananas. After they are well combined add the dry ingredients and fold in gently. Also add the flour coated walnuts.
• Pour the batter in tin.
• Bake it on the middle rack for 40-50 mins or unless a tooth pick inserted in the cake comes out clean. Mine took exactly 45 minutes. But keep checking after 35 minutes as every oven vary as per the power :)
• When done, take it out and give a rest of 2 minutes in the tin, then demold and cool on a cooling rack.
• Once completely cooled, cut into slices and these can be stored in an air tight container for 3-4 days. You can also enjoy it my way - warm slice with vanilla ice cream :)) 

Note : 

• If you don't have brown sugar simply replace it with white one. 
• You can omit cinnamon if that's not your taste. You can add green cardamom powder instead.
• You can adjust the amount of sugar as per the sweetness of bananas or your taste.
• Also you can adjust the walnuts quantity as per the liking, or completely omit it. 

Please do share your experiences and feedback with me in the below section of comments or on my Facebook page. I too have a You Tube channel please do visit for all the video recipes. All the links mentioned below :) 

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Thanks & Happy Baking

Priyanka :)))

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 :)

Do share your experiences and feedback with me in the below section of comments or on my Facebook page. I too have a You Tube channel please do visit for all the video recipes. All the links mentioned below :)

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Thanks & Happy Baking 

Priyanka :)