Tuesday, January 22, 2013

3rd Blog Anniversary with Condensed Milk kind of Zebra/Marble Cake!






I totally completely forgot about my blog anniversary (which passed by me couple of days ago). This tells you how much out of the loop I have been with my blog! How much I wish I could start posting everyday, but it just not happening. Lots of other stuff take up my precious time. And not only that I have been trying my other hobbies and so they have also kept me away from blogging. Well thats fine!!  :)

Things are going good on my side! How are things on your side? Kids in routine with school and activities and even our life falls into routine with them.
Holidays have come and passed us by. So there goes another year without snow and terrible cold temperatures. Can't complain as we have enjoyed every bit of it! Though I do like snow and wish sometimes that we had snow, won't complain as its not that far away, only a 3 hour drive and we get snow! With that on the back of my mind, I am not missing snow or the cold temperatures! My East Coast friends - I love you all!! :)

Other thing that I am totally hooked on to is Pinterest! I see so many great ideas, recipes and DIY stuff that I am so tempted to try all of them! I have already made a cowl and knitted a few scarves. If anyone is interested you are welcome to checkout my Photo Blog My PicXels. Yes! after a good year last year which was my first year to do a photo blog, I decided to continue with it again this year :) simply because I think I learned a lot about photography, but also because I love clicking pictures! So if you have time do check it out. Right now I am doing a mix of phone clicks and camera clicks so that I am not bored at all. :)


Since I forgot my Blog anniversary, I haven't had much time to prepare. I chose this simple, few ingredients recipe, which I have made a few times now and is fool proof. The only thing I tried new was to try the zebra pattern, hoping it will come out good! ............but I think I could have added more cocoa powder for the darker lines, so more like marble cake maybe! The lines came out very light in color....but overall it tasted good! YUM!!



Ingredients:

1 cup flour
4 eggs
4 tbsp butter (melted)
2 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 can sweetened condensed milk (nearly 400g)

2 tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa powder (increase this for darker lines)

Method:

Mix all ingredients, except for the Cocoa powder into batter using your mixer.

For the chocolate part:

Divide the batter into 2 halves. To one half add 2 tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa powder.


Grease a pan with some butter and flour it.
Preheat the oven to 350 Degrees F.

Using a 1/4 cup, pour both the batters in alternate pattern. That is, once pour the regular batter in the middle of the pan. On top of that, pour the chocolate batter. Do this until all the batter is used up.

Bake it for 30-35 minutes.









10 comments:

  1. Hearty congrats smitha - wishes for many more years of delighting us.

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  2. congratulations an wishing u many more dear :)
    cake looks perfect and delicious..

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  3. Happy anniversary to ur blog, smitha!! that cake looks yum :)

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  4. Happy bloggiversary dear. the cake looks so soft n yum

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  5. Congrats Smitha,wishing your blog baby a happy birthday,keep on going gal..

    Cake looks super moist and extremely spongy.

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  6. HB to your blog. Wising you many more in the years to come. Keep posting yummy recipes even if little slow, we love to read them and learn from you.
    Love Ash.

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  7. delicious cake happy blog anniversary

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  8. Happy blog Anniversary! may you celebrate many more. I forget my blogoversary too, feel bad about it later :(. amybe this year I will make a cake too, to celebrate.

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  9. Smitha,
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    I am hosting a contest and a giveaway an I would like to invite you to participate in the event. The details of the event and the giveaway are on the blog and I am providing the link below.

    http://acookatheart.blogspot.com/2013/02/i-must-make-that-and-exciting-giveaway.html

    I do hope you will consider participating to encourage and help my maiden attempt at a hosting an event.
    Thank you.

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