Custard Marble Cake (Eggless)

Of late, I have been so crazy of baking this makes me to search for unique recipes from blogger friend's space. I have saved more than 100 blogs which I visit almost everyday, so one of the blog I visit without fail is Priya Ranjit's Cook Like Priya. The other day I saw Priya posted an unique cake baked with whole wheat flour and custard flour, I told myself I'm definitely trying this recipe no matter what as I had all the ingredients needed for this cake in my pantry. Thank you so much Priya for sharing such a wonderful cake with us.

This is a special cake and would be loved by people who are health concious and looking for a light and fluffy cake. Let's look at how to make this cake;

Ingredients:

1 and 1/4 cup of whole wheat flour/atta

1/4 cup of all purpose flour

3/4 cup of custard powder

2 tbsp of cocoa powder

1 and 1/4 tsp of baking soda

1 and 1/2 cup of milk

3 tbsp of vegetable oil

1 tsp of vanilla extract

3/4 cup of sugar

Sift baking soda, whole wheat flour, all purpose flour and custard powder and set aside.

In a mixing bowl add sugar, oil, vanilla extract, milk and mix until the sugar is almost dissolved. Slowly add in the dry ingredients little by little until it forms a smooth batter. Now take out 1/4 part of the batter and mix the cocoa powder to it ( I have mixed cocoa powder with little milk).

I have used a loaf pan to make this cake, you can use any cake pan of your choice. Butter the sides of the loaf pan and pour all the original batter to this pan, then pour the chocolate batter in the middle of the original batter and make swirl with a chopstick or knife to form the marble effect to the cake.

Bake the cake in pre-heated oven (pre-heat for 10 minutes) for 150 to 180 degrees depending on your oven's requirement for 35- 40 minutes. The most important part of baking this cake is that you have to leave the cake for minimum 2 hours or overnight to have soft and fluffy cake.

Unmould the cake and cut into slices and our Custard Marble Cake is ready to be served. Do try and I'm sure that you will love it!

Guest Post by Faseela Noushad : Apple Custard Pie

Jingle Bells Jingle Bells Jingle All The Way, So Much Fun It Is To Ride In a One Horse Open Sleigh....Christmas celebration is so wonderful every where, this festive season is something shared by everyone despite coming from different religion. Now for the second post for Christmas is shared by Faseela Noushad from Good Food Ends With Good Talk. This is the second time she made guest post for my blog and I'm very glad she agreed for it. Thank you dear, now let's see what she made for us;

Thank you so much Arthy for giving me one more opportunity to do a guest post at your fabulous blog. Hope you like the recipe which I chose for you. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and your family dear

Ingredients

Pie Crust

Wheat Flour: 2 cups

Sugar powdered: ½ cup

Salt: needed

Cold milk: needed to knead the dough

Cold butter: ½ cup (approx.)

Custard

Milk: 1 cup

Custard powder: 3tbsp

Sugar: 5-6tbsp

Apple: 1

Method Of Preparation

Custard

In a bowl add milk, custard powder and sugar.Stir well. Heat the milk and keep on stirring. When the custard is cooked and becomes thick switch off the flame. (The custard should be thick enough.)

Chop the apple into small pieces and add into the custard. Let it cool.

Pie Crust

In a bowl add wheat flour, salt and powdered sugar. Add in the cold butter and knead with fingers till the butter combines well with the flour.Then add in needed cold milk to form hard dough. (Don’t add more milk) Refrigerate the dough for 1 hour.Then take out the dough and roll on a floured surface and cut to the size of pie pan. 

Place it on the pan and just do pricks with the fork. With the balance cut flour, roll it again and cut to 4 stripes as per the length of your pie pan. Keep aside.Bake the pie crust in a preheated oven to about 5-8 minutes, Take it out and add he custard filling to it and arrange the stripes over it to form a lattice pattern and bake to about 30-35 minutes or till done.

Cool on a wire rack.

Note: This was my first try of pie, so I just made in my normal baking pan instead of using pie pan.