Disaster’s No 1 and 2

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 1/4 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: 1/3 cup

Walnut: 1/3 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: 3/4cup

Yogurt: 3/4 cup

Baking powder: 3/4 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