The theme for September Bundt Bakers was to Create a “Healthy Cheat, Sneak or Substitute” recipe. Hiding a vegetable in your cake, substitute apple sauce or banana instead of oil, or try out an alternative oil or flour. I chose to make the Whole Wheat Banana Bundt Cake as the healthy cheat. Not only does it not use processed flour, it has no processed anything in it. To top it’s healthy benefits, it is made with the least amount of butter. Just the right amount of fat needed to soften the gluten in the wheat. I also used a whole wheat …
Apple Sharlotka Bundt Cake #BundtBakers
Long, luxurious days of summer are almost over and kids are back in school. New year of learning, new challenges and new ways of having fun is all on the cards for the teen. She wasn’t really excited about school starting again. After all it means no sleep ins in the morning and no more reading till 2 am and no more “pokemon go” and catching em all. Cakes have been known to bring up the excitement in teens and adults alike. So Apple Sharlotka Bundt Cake was made and devoured. It even made picking up the outfit for first day …
Raspberry Mojito Bundt Cake #BundtBakers
Sun kissed beaches, glorious ocean waves and a big sip of a tropical drink. That’s how I picture a tropical vacation which is the theme for our BundtBakers this month. The theme made me think of Raspberry Mojito Bundt Cake only after I had exhausted my options and myself in making a kick ass mango coconut bundt cake. I tried. I really did. But tropical themed cakes and me don’t see eye to eye in first or the second try. Guys! I repeated the story that I had with my Tropical surprise bundt cake! As they say, third time is …
Chocolate and Tomato Soup Bundt Cake #BundtBakers
It’s the strange but good sort of a day with the Bundt Bakers. And that’s why you are being forced to partake in a recipe that uses tomato soup as one of it’s ingredients. If you think adding tomato soup in my chocolate bundt is way too weird, wait till you see what the other strange (ahem) Bunt Bakers have come up with! As weird as it sounds, it is not all that uncommon – the tomato soup cake! It has been known to have made it’s presence in the depression era. And there are scores of recipes, old and …
Tropical Surprise Bundt Cake #Bundt Bakers
“If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.” ~Chinese Proverb In all my time of cake baking, I have never had an epic cake fail. Sure there have been cakes that didn’t turn out as delicious or I didn’t much care for the texture but I have not had cakes just fall flat on me. Until Now. For this month’s theme for Bundt Bakers I suggested that we bake cakes with hidden surprises. How hard could it be? Hiding a little filling or a little something inside a cake sounded fun enough when …
Coconut Caramel Samoas Bundt Cake #Bundtbakers
A long time ago, when one of my neighbors decided to lead and manage a Girls Scouts troop, I was over the moon. Yes! You read that right! “I” was over the moon. My daughter had no idea she was going to be a Girl Scout. Her mom had made the decision that she was going to be and that was that. Since I was then a recent transplant from India, I found the Girl Scouting culture fascinating and empowering. It was something I never got to do as a young girl and I wanted to have my daughter the …