Banana Walnut bread

I loved this bread the moment i tasted this. This is super easy.

Ingredients:-
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All purpose flour - 1 cup
Eggs - 2 medium size
Bananas - 1 cup mashed (2 Medium size when mashed this would ake 1 cup)
Walnuts - 1/2 cup
Canola oil - 1/2 cup(you can also use butter or margarine)
sugar - 1 cup( I used brown sugar)
Baking Soda - 1 tsp
Salt - a pinch

Method:-
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1. Preheat the oven at 350F.
2. Take a loaf pan and apply some butter and flour to the pan.
3.Now Mash the bananans well and keep this aside.
4. Sieve the flour with baking soda and salt. Keep this aside.
5. Beat the eggs and keep this aside.
6. Mix the sugar and oil well. To this add the egg mixture and the mashed bananas.Mix well so that everything combines well.
7.Now add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients that is to the flour and mix so that eveythings gets fold well.
8.Pour this mixture in the pan and bake for about 25-30 minutes. When inserted with the knife it should be clean.

Note :-
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You can find details of the above recipe in allrecipes.com

Chocolate cake

Todays receipe is a chocolate cake. I made ganache. Ganache is a chocolate mixture which is used as frosting or as filling.

Ingredients
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Maida or All-purpose flour - 13/4 C
Sugar - 13/4 C
Unsweetened Cocoa pwder - 3/4 C
Vanilla Essence - 2 tsp
Boiling water - 1 C
Milk - 1 C
Oil or Melted buter - 1/2 C
Baking Powder - 11/2 tsp
Baking soda - 11/2 tsp
Sugar - 13/4 C
Salt - 1 tsp
Egg - 1

Method:-
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1. Pre-heat the oven at 350F.
2. Take a cake beater or a Mixer jar. To that add egg, milk, oil and essence. Add one by one and beat them well.
3.Meanwhile in a bowl mix Cocoa powder, Baking powder,Baking soda, Flour, Sugar and salt.Add this to the above in the mixer jar and run for 15 to 20 minutes or until the batter is smooth and all the ingredients are well mixed.
4. Now add  boling water.
5. Take a baking pan. Grease the pan with oil spray.
6. Now pour the batter and bake for 30 to 35 minutes or till the toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.

Ganache
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Cocoa Powder  - 1/2 C
Butter - 1 stick (Melted butter approximately 1 stick)
Milk - 1/3 C
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
 Icing sugar - 1 C

Method:-
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1. To the melted butter add cocoa powder and boil.
2. To this add the remaining ingredients and beat it well.
3. Spread this warm mixture on the baked cake as frosting.

NanKatai/Maida biscuites/Eggless cookies

"One joy scatters a hundred grieves."

Ingredients

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Maida / All purpose flour- 2 cups

Baking powder - 1/2 tsp

Ghee - 1/2 cup

Sugar - 1 cup

Cardamom - 5 to 6 (Crushed into powder)

Method:-
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1. Mix all the above ingredients one by one and make a dough.

2. Preheat the oven at 350F. 

3. Meanwhile, make cookies out of the dough. Once the oven is preheated, set the time for 15 minutes. Place these cookies in the oven and bake. 

Note:-

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Check the cookies in between so that they wont get burn.