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Cream Cookies

Ingredients

2 cups Maida

1 cups powdered sugar

100 gms or 3 ½ tbsp butter

½ tsp Baking powder

½ tsp vanilla essence

Milk as required

Preparation

Sieve Maida and Baking powder together.
Beat butter and sugar with a hand blender till soft and creamy.
Add maida

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Gopi Bouquet Almond Apricot Cake

Gopi Bouquet Almond Apricot cake

Ingredients
Wholemeal self raising flour- 1 1 /4 cup
eno/ fruit salt- 1/2 tsp
Dried apricots- 1 cup
Soya milk/ or any thick milk- 11/4 cup
Chopped roasted almonds/peanuts- 1 1/4 cup
Ground almonds/peanuts- 1 cup
Vegetable mar

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Jagganath Rath Carrot Cinnamon Cake

Jagganath Rath Carrot Cinnamon Cake

Ingredients

1. Self raising flour- 1 1/2 cups( or all purpose flour- 1 1/2 cups and Baking powder- 1/2 tsp, Baking soda 1tsp)
2. Powdered sugar- 1cup
3. Baking powder/Eno- 1/4 tsp
4. Cinnamon powder- 1 tsp
5. Salt- a pi

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Orange Tapioca (Sabudana) pudding

Orange Tapioca (Sabudana) pudding

Good sweet dish for diabetics and for Ekadashi

Makes 6 servings of half cup each

Preparation time - 5 minutes

Soaking time - 30 minutes

Cooking time - 8 minutes

1/2 cup pearl Tapioca

2 1/2 cups cold water,divided use

1 larg

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Cheesy Crisps

CHEESY CRISPS

Makes- 4 dozen crackers or 8 dozen sticks

Cooking time- 1 hour 45 minutes ( including cooling time)

There are two ways to prepare these savoury treats. The crackers are a bit simpler to make, but the sticks let kids have fun rolling ropes

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Narsimhadev Apple Cinnamon Cake

Ingredients

1. All purpose flour(Maida) – 2 cups
2. Salt - a pinch

3. Baking powder - 2 tsp

4. Baking soda - 2 tsp

5. Butter, melted - 1/2 cup
6. Powdered sugar - 3/4 cup

7. powdered cinnamon - 1 ½ tsp
8. Cardamom powder – 1 tsp
9. Vanilla essence -

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Cowherd Gotas

For the Dough

1. 1 cup Maida (plain flour) or Wheat flour

2. 1tbsp oil,

3. ½ tsp salt

For the Filling

1. Oil- 11/2 tbsp

2. Carrot- 1 large size

3. Cabbage- 2 ½ cups, very finely chopped

4. Ginger paste- 1 tsp

5. Green chillies- 2, finely chopp

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Baked Yoghurt Chakras

Baked Yoghurt Chakras

Ingredients

1. 4 slices of bread ( plain/ multi grain brown bread)

2. 2-3 tbsp milk

3. 1 tsp ajwain ( carom seeds)

4. 4 tbsp Moong sprouts/cottage cheese, optional

5. 9 spinach leaves.

For the Filling

1. curd, 1 cup - hang for 1 hour in

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Neelachal Tulip Orange Cake

Ingredients

1. All purpose flour- 1 1/2 cup
2. Baking Soda- 1/2 tsp
3. Baking powder- 1 tsp
4. Sunflower/ vegetable oil-1/2 cup
5. Confectioners sugar/ castor sugar- 3/4 cup
6. Yoghurt- 1/4 cup
7. Fresh Orange juice mixed

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Sudarshan Chakra Blueberry Cake

Sudarshan Chakra Blueberry Cake

serves 15-20 depending on the size.

Ingredients

1. All purpose flour/Maida- 1 1/2 cup

2. Sugar- 3/4 cup

3. Salt- 1/2 tsp

4. Baking powder- 2tsp

5. Vegetable oil- 1/3 cup

6. Egg replacer- 1 tbsp or Yoghurt- 1/4 cup

7. Milk- 1/3

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Sindhi Loli / biscuit (Sweet and Salty variations)

Sindhi loli

Makes 6-8 depending on the size

Can be used for breakfast or given to kids to carry to school.

lasts for 2-3 weeks at room temperature.

Ingredients

1. Wheat flour- 2 cups

2. Sugar/jaggery-1/2 cup (60 gms)

3. Oil- 2 tbsp

4. Water to make firm dou

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Tulsi Apple Cake

A. Tulsi Apple cake

Ingredients

1. Maida/All purpose flour- 2 cups

2. Apples green/red- 2, peeled and grated

3. Baking powder-2 tsp

4. Baking Soda- 1½ tsp

5. Eno- ½ tsp

6. Butter, melted- ½ cup

7. Sugar- 1 cup

8. Milk-7 tsp

9. Salt- a pinch

10. vanilla/rose es

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Ekadashi Ram Kutiya Cake

A. Ekadashi Cake
Ingredients-

1. 1 1/4 cups milk powder

2. 1 1/4 cups potato flour/Rajgira atta/ Amaranth flour

3. 1 cup castor sugar

4. 1 teaspoon soda bicarb

5. 1/4 cup butter- melted

6. 1/2 cup grated coconut- roasted

7. 2 mashed bananas

8. 1/2 cup yogur

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Harmonium Orange cake

Ingredients

1. All purpose flour- 1 1/2 cup

2. Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

3. Baking powder- 1 tsp

4. Sunflower/vegetable oil- 1/2 + 1tbsp oil

5. Sugar/ castor sugar- 3/4 cup

6. Yoghurt- 1/4 cup

7. orange juice (preferably fresh)- 3/4 cup

8. Orange peel (scrapped)

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Strawberry lotus cake

Ingredients

• All purpose flour- 1 1/2 cup

• Sugar- 3/4 cup+ 1Tbsp

• Salt-1/2 tsp

• Baking powder- 1 1/2 tsp

• Eno- 1/2 tsp

• Vegetable oil-1/3 cup

• Yoghurt- 1/4 cup

• Milk- 1/3 cup (full fat milk will taste better than low fat)

• Strawberries, finely chop

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Govardhan Banana cake

Ingredients

• Ripe banana mashed – 1 cup

• Rava- 1 cup

• Sugar- 1/2 cup

• Baking powder -1 tsp

• Cardamom powder- 1/2 tsp

• Oil -1/4 cup

• Butter-melted- 1/4 cup

• Walnuts- 1/4 cup (optional)

• Brown colour – 3-4 drops

For the Govardhan look

• Ganache Icing

• B

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Mrdang Pineapple date cake

Mrdang Pineapple date cake

Ingredients-

1. Whole wheat flour- 3/4 cup

2. Maida/unbleached flour- 3/4 cup

3. Baking powder- 1 tsp

4. Eno- 1 tsp

5. Crushed pineapple with juice- 1 can(8oz)

6. Very Ripe banana (about 1/2 large), mashed-1/4 cup

7. Vanilla/almon

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Two Tier Ricotta sponge cake

Two Tier Ricotta sponge cake

A. For the cake
Ingredients-
1. Self raising flour.( already has baking powder in it)- 2 cup
2. castor sugar- 1 cup
3. Eno- 1/2 tsp
4. Milk/water- 1 cup
5. Oil- 1/4 cup
6. Vanilla/ pineapple essence- 1 tsp
7. Yellow colour- 3-4 dr

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