When I saw kitchen mishap event, I thought oh my god I have only a few events to send, like burnt ghee, while making some homemade ghee, or burnt cracker’s, making some graham cracker at home. Then come two good episode of disaster while baking in my kitchen stories.
Episode One: Egg less cornmeal banana cake.
I was planning and intended to make a cornmeal cake similar to Brazilian cornmeal cake with coconut milk, cornmeal and all purpose flour. I wanted to make it eggless at the same time along with the use the spotty banana from my kitchen counter. My hubby says I will get over enthusiastic about something especially baking something new. I started as usual measuring everything, mixing and preheating the oven.
It didn’t rise even after 45 minutes of baking, so the chef in me thought that it is okay, since I didn’t add egg, so it won’t puff up a lot. Then comes the taste test, it tasted somewhat under cooked. I was literally crying over my banana, coconut milk and walnuts I have wasted.. After my taste tester (dear hubby) agreed with my finding, entire thing found a nice place in my garbage bin.
What you need
All purpose flour: 1 ¼ cup
Yellow corn meal: ½ cup
Banana puree: 1 ½ cup (about 3 medium banana)
Sugar: ¾ cup
Coconut milk: ¾ cup
Baking powder: 11/2 teaspoon
Salt: ¼ teaspoon
Ground cinnamon: ½ teaspoon
Vanilla extract: 1 teaspoon
Butter: ⅓ cup
Walnut: ⅓ cup (toasted and chopped)
How I made
Preheat oven to 350 degree F. Butter the bottom of a 9 inch cake pan. Line the bottom with parchment paper, then butter and flour the pan.
In a large bowl, sift all purpose flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon and keep aside.
In another bowl cream butter and sugar well and then add coconut milk, vanilla extract.
Mix wet ingredients to dry ingredients and combine until everything gets incorporated. To this mixture add banana puree and gently mix everything with a spatula.
Pour the batter in prepared 9 inch cake pan and toss the toasted chopped walnut. Bake for 45 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.
Cool the cake in pan for 15 minutes and later invert them and cool completely before serving.
Enjoy
Preparation time: 1 hour
Yield: 10 serving
Verdict; tasteless
Will you make it again: May be after improving the recipe . Not sure yet
Episode no.2 Cornmeal Bread (Egg less and Sugarless)
We have a proverb in our home town. Choodu vellathil veena poocha ,pacha vellam kandalum pedikum. (A cat that fell in hot water, will even be afraid of cold water). I was like that and I was more cautious during my attempt to make another cornmeal recipe. I spent a lot of time reading various recipes in the web and saw this recipe. Earlier I had tried a version, of cornmeal bread, where in egg and sugar is used, it turned out fine, but was not the best. I made my cornmeal bread like this. This attempt to make an eggless version of cornmeal bread also turned out to be a disaster.
What you need
All purpose flour: ¾ cup
Yellow corn meal: ¾cup
Yogurt: ¾ cup
Baking powder: ¾ teaspoon
Baking soda: ½ teaspoon
Salt: ¼ teaspoon
Oil: ¼ cup
Onion: 1 finely chopped
Serrano peper: 1 no
How I made
In a pan heat 1 tablespoon oil and add chopped onion and fry until it change color or become translucent. Keep aside
Preheat oven to 425F
In a bowl mix all the dry ingredients and combine well.
In another bowl mix all wet ingredients and pour it into dry ingredients and mix everything until incorporated well. Fold in fried onion and chopped Serrano pepper.
Pour the batter into lightly greased baking dish, bake for about 30 minutes, or until tooth pick comes out clean.
Preparation time: 45 minutes
Verdict: no taste
Will you make it again: No way
I was worried of throwing into a garbage can immediately, so I cut it into pieces and tried to save it one more time by shallow frying them in a skillet. It was okay not great.
After this 2 episode, just like Jay Leno, I have to give up my egg less attempts of cornmeal bread and cake making.
I am sending these two episode to Kitchen Mishaps event hosted by Malar
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Meena says
there r disaster events too.. just been reading out ur posts and this was interesting,. there are disasters like that every day almost isnt it
nice space yaar u have so many recipes would check out when i get time
Swathi says
siddhi,malar, priya, jagruti, kitchen queen thanks
kitchen queen says
delicious and lovely banana cake.
Jagruti says
Hi Swathifirst time here...you have nice blog here...moong daal halwa loks yummy..http://joyofcooking247.blogspot.comcheers
Priya says
Prefect entries to Malar's event..its happens na..
Malar Gandhi says
Hi Swati,
Thanks for the entry, dear. I really appreciate it. Infact, cake looks good...maybe only the taste...but thats okay, we all have similar experience...
Siddhi S says
hi swati...this is my first visit to ur blog...u have a nice space with awesome recipes...nice entries for kitchen mishap event...liked ur moong dal halwa, it luks very tempting...vl follow ur blog so that i can track all ur forth comming yummy recipes and visit them...