Strawberry Swirl Cake

Christmas is just around the corner, I'm so excited about it. I'm planning for a small celebration with my family and as another step to Christmas I baked a wonderful and delicious cake, Strawberry Swirl Cake. I don't want to go on blabbering here let me take you to the recipe;

Ingredients:

1 cup of all purpose flour

1/2 cup of castor sugar

1/2 cup of soft butter

1/2 tsp of baking powder

1/2 tsp of baking soda

1 tsp of rose essence

1/4 cup of evaporated milk

1/4 cup of strawberry filling

2 drops of red coloring (optional)

2 large eggs

In a mixing bowl, whisk egg, sugar and butter until fluffy. Now add in rose essence, red coloring and evaporated milk. Now add baking soda, baking powder and all purpose flour and mix until everything are well incorporated. 

Pour the mixture in a baking tray depending on your preference and finally add the strawberry filling on top of the cake mixture, using a stick swirl the filling in the cake mixture to get a perfect swirl once baked. Then bake the cake at 150 degrees for 40 minutes.

Once the cake is perfectly baked let it cool before  you unmould the cake and cut into slices. Now our Strawberry Swirl Cake is ready to be served.

Do try and let me know how it turned out!

Ginger Garlic Paste

Cooking is something really fun to do and needs lots of creativity and patience in making a wonderful meal for the family, but one thing I really hate is peeling garlic for cooking. It just takes so much of my time and patience so I always peel lots of it and store in a air tight container and keep it in the fridge. 

I use ginger garlic paste for most of my cooking and always have some in fridge so that I don't have to prepare a fresh one when planning to cook. Ginger garlic paste is very easy to prepare but peeling garlic again something I really hate. But I have a very easy way to peel garlic for ginger garlic paste preparation, let's look at what actually I'm trying to say;

Ingredients:

500g of ginger (cleaned and cut small)

500g of garlic (cleaned)

Water

Prepare 500g of ginger and garlic

Soak garlic pod in water, this make it easy to peel the skin off

Peel off skin from ginger and cut into small pieces

Put ginger and garlic in a blender and add very little water to make into fine paste

Store it in an air tight container and can be stored it in fridge for nearly a month