Basic Sponge cake turned to Pineapple cake

I wanted to make a very spongy soft and delicious pineapple cake for my daughters 5th month birthday (Yeah we do celebrate it monthly as she is precious and not an year old yet :P) .

I had to make it by evening and i knew this would take quality time.So i wanted to reach out to few of the cake experts
Option 1: Google ofcourse as its always handy and by my side .So i googled for some recipes and to my surprise i always found eggless cakes.Huh are eggless cakes in most menus these days ???So not much help out here to nail down a specific recipe

Option 2: I called up a friend of mine who bakes awesome cakes.I love the cakes she bake and there i go!Yippeee!!! i got to make this awesome cake with her help.

If you wanna bake a cake for a party,you gotto try this recipe! Trust me it turned out awesome and if you grow up in india this tasted quite like the soft pinapple pastries you find in Bakerys.My husband and guests savored it till the last bite.

Ingredients

- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 4 large eggs(at room temperature preferably not mandatory)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt

Pineapple cake Ingredients
- 1 medium sized pinapple cut into small cunks
- pinapple essence (optional)
- 1 cup pinapple juice
Icing
- 1 pint heavy whipping cream
- 1/2 cup sugar(as per your taste
- 2 tsp Hersheys chocolate syrup

Notes :Incase you need to make a black forest cake,use 1 Tbsp cocoa powder in your basic sponge cake

Recipe

Step 1: Separate the egg whites and whip the egg whites with a electric blender until a thick froth forms.You should able to make cones on the froth.

Step 2 : Now add the egg yolks one by one to the egg whites and blend for another minute.Add sugar and blend for 2 minutes.Now add vanilla extract.

Step 3: Sift together flour,baking powder and salt.(Please dont skip this step as its very important to sift the dry ingredients so that there are no lumps).I missed it once and actually ended up a small lump uncooked all the way at the end.

Step 4: Mix the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients .Add flour mixture little by little and stir in a single direction.
Pour the batter in a greased baking tray and add half cup of pineapple chunks to the batter.

Step 5: Preheat oven to 350F.Place the cake in the middle rack of the oven and bake the cake for 35-40 minutes or until done.(the cake is fully baked if you insert a knife/toothpick and it comes out clean)

Step 6: Cool the cake and cut into two halves.Let the cakes cool completely.
Now sprinkle some pineapple juice on the cake halves.The cakes should be just wet and not very wet.So pour the pineapple juice with a teaspoon.

Step 7: Beat the whipping cream with sugar and pineapple essence/vanilla extract and keep aside for icing.
Spread some whipping cream on a cake half and top it with pineapple chunks.

Step 8: Place the other half of the cake on top.

Step 9: Spread the remaining whipping cream on the cake and decorate as needed.

Low fat Eggless Mango Cake

I happened to eat mango cake at one of my friends place during a summer barbecue party.I was hesitating to eat it but to my surprise it tasted very good.Ever since I wanted to give it a try and found this recipe

eggless mango cake

Ingredients
1 cup fresh mango puree(I used store bought mango puree)
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup semolina/sooji/rava (fine)
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup yogurt
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cardamom powder
Pinch of salt
Raisins/nuts(optional)

Method
Preheat oven to 350F and grease a baking tray.
Sift all purpose flour , baking soda,baking powder, salt and keep aside.
Blend together yogurt, mango puree, sugar, oil, cardamom powder.
Combine all dry and wet ingredients together.
Fold in raisins/nuts of your choice
Pour the batter in the greased baking tray
Bake the cake for 35-40 mins or until golden brown
Cool the cake and slice it