Baking for Beginners - event round up

Working on the round up has been a lot of fun ,early morning and so many delicious goodies straight out of the oven to feast on. Thank you for being so patient and I am sure you would love each and every one of these. Please do feel free to mail me in case of any entry not being featured. Thank you for all the encouragement and making my event a success. With the huge collection of 41 recipes I will sure have to get my oven to work over time. Happy baking !!

1)PRIYA SURESH of Priya's Easy N Tasty Recipes has an artistic and delicious French Apple Tart


2)ANUDIVYA of a little bit more... has forwarded her Low fat Almond and Oats Cookie - Eggless


3)SWEATHA of TastyCurryLeaf has some yummy treats with her
- CloverLeaf Rolls


- Oatmeal PeanutButter Choco Chip Cookies


4)CHANDANI of Chai's Corner has the traditional Christmas Fruitcake


5)HAPPY COOK of My Kitchen treasures has some delicious cookies filled with jam and nuts


6)PG of My Kitchen Stories has been into some delicious baking and has send in the
-Apple Cake with caramel sauce


- Almond cinnamon stars and coconut macaroones


7)NAVITA HAKIM of Zaayeka
has a lovely spread with
-Chocolate chip cookies


-Chocolate chip fudge brownie


-Quick and Easy (Eggless) French Dinner Rolls


8)JAISHREE of Ruchi has Pineapple Cake that is absolutely mouthwatering.


9)RAMYA of Pennin(g) my Cooking has Scones made in the microwave


-Eggless Tutti Fruity Cake in the Microwave


10)SUMA RAJESH of Suma's Cuisine has two delicacies
-Chocobread


-Upside Down Apple Cake


11)MAHIMAA of Indian Vegetarian Kitchen has send in her yummy treat of a batch of eggless oats dates cookies


12)MADHURAM of Eggless has send in the
-Decadent Eggless Cookie Bars


-Eggless Pudding Cookies


13)SUNSHINEMOM of Tongueticklers has for us some mouthwatering Chocolate Crinkles


14)UMA of Essence of Andhra has send in delicious Christmas cookies


-Christmas Cupcakes


15)POONAM of wishurdish has tasty cookies


16)SINDHURA of Bay Leaf a new entrant to the blogging world has been into a lot of baking and sends her delicious
-Jam Centred Cookies


-Strawberry Tart


-Choco chip nutty cookies


-Almond Cookies


17)SNEH from From my Kitchen to Yours.. has the lovely carrot cake



18)PURVA of Purva's Daawat has for us yummy Cranberry and Apricot Swirl Cookies


-Chocolate and Walnut Brownie


19)RAJEE of Simply Innocence has yummy Peanut butter sandwich cookies.


20)ARCHY of Archysrecipes has a delight for the vegetarians with the Eggless Orange Muffin


21)SUDESHNA of Here I Cook has brought out the innovative Christmas cake in pressure cooker.



22)SANGEETH RAGHUNATHAN of Letusallcook has the Easy Vanilla Cake


23)CHAM of Spice-club has the all time favorite the Vanilla cake


24)RENUKA of Fusion has the delicious
-Carrot Cake


-Eggless Chocolate Cookies/Biscuits


She has been kind enough to make a special post putting together her tips and tricks that would help bakers go a long way


25)YASMEEN of Health Nut has four delicious baking delights
- Sweet potatoes Peanut Butter cupcakes with Peanut Butter cream cheese frosting


- Vegan Banana Walnut Quick bread


- Dark Chocolate Pecan Cookies


- Crunchy Oats Dates Bars

Marble Cake and end of the baking event

Have had a great time receiving all the entries for the baking for beginners event. Each one of them has made me droll over them and truly inspiring to put on those mittens and get baking. I am sure the round up would be of great help and get many like me waiting like me to actually take the plunge and begin home baking. To bring a sweet ending to the event I decided to give the Zebra Cake at Passionate about Baking a try and was amazed at the results. Firstly, I must admit that I have been just admiring the huge variety of baked dishes and the lovely pics on this blog. The Zebra Cake or Marble cake as I prefer to call it(as I didn't get the Zebra stripes so well but the taste was amazing and the cake disappeared in no time).

I made the cake with half the measure of the ingredients given in the original recipe as I wanted to make it in my rectangle cake tin and the original recipe would turn out too big for my tin.
Ingredients:
Eggs - 2
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Oil - 1/2 cup
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
Self-raising flour - 1 cup (I used plain flour + 1 tsp baking powder)
Dark cocoa powder - 4 tbsp

I omitted the salt and used 4 tbsp of drinking chocolate instead of dark cocoa powder. With the drinking chocolate got the dark cocoa color and the taste did appeal to my daughter too.

Method:
I mixed together all the ingredients with a beater in a bowl. Divide it into two halves and to one portion add the cocoa powder and mix till well blended. Pour the cake batter in a pre-greased cake tin in alternate layers. Pour the white mixture in the centre of the tin, then pour on top of it the chocolate mixture. Alternate. The first time I made it in my excitement tried to mix it with a fork to get the stripes. Do not mix the batter it spreads on its own and turns out beautifully.
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees for 30-35 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes in the oven. Take out and cool on a wire rack. They would go well with tea or coffee and with a scoop of vanilla ice cream it is yummy.