Vanilla Cake

Though my parents were not here with us on their 35th Anniversary, I decided to bake this Vanilla Cake to keep my boys happy and in a celebratory mood. My 6 year old boys helped me, so we had a bit of fun doing this.

Ingredients:
Maida/Refined Flour: 100gms
Powdered Sugar: 100gms
Vanilla Essence: 2 tsp
Baking Powder: 1tsp
Milk: 1/4 to 1/2 cup
Butter: 100gms
Egg whites: of 3 eggs

Method:

• Pre-heat the oven to 175 degrees C
• Sieve together the flour and baking powder.
• Combine the butter and the powdered sugar till it becomes soft and creamy.
• Next add the egg whites to it, and beat well.
• Then, alternately, add the flour and the milk into the egg mixture. Start by adding the flour, and end by adding the flour. Mix well with a wooden spoon
• Mix in the vanilla essence.
• Pour the batter in a greased cake dish and bake at 175 degrees C for 45 minutes.
• Prick a fork or a knife in when it is baking to see if it is done. If the fork or knife comes out clean, then the cake is done.
• Transfer the cake on a wire rack to cool it.

I would like to enter this post to the event Christmas Delicacy hosted by Erivum Puliyumm.

Creamy Egg Curry

This is a recipe I learnt from my mother. It is yummy. We just love it. I like to use the cream available in the market, that come in tetrapacks, but fresh cream is also good.

Ingredients:

Eggs 6

Onion (chopped) 1

Garlic (chopped) 6-8 cloves

Cream as much as you like

Turmeric powder

Red chilli powder

Salt

Method:

1. Boil the eggs and peel them.

2. After they cool, add turmeric and a pinch of salt.

3. Heat oil and fry the eggs a bit to make them yellow and keep aside.

4. In hot oil, fry the garlic and the oninon for around 2 mins.
5. Add salt turmeric powder and red chilli powder and fry a bit more.
6. Add the cream and fry till it smells good, and the oil starts to seperate.
7. Add water and bring to a boil.
8. Once the water starts to boil, add the egges.
9. Let it boil for some time, so that the eggs take on the flavours of the curry. and the gravy thickens a bit.