Rice Cakes with Nutella and Banana- Kids Recipes

Nutella is becoming kid's most favourite thing these days. They are asking me to make Nutella Rice cakes, Nutella Sandwiches, Nutella bread sticks, Nutella popsicles the list is endless. They want everything with Nutella. Here is one of those easy peesy crunchy snack for the them. 

4 Layer Rainbow Cake - Eggless

Finally!!!! Finally made this rainbow cake. This cake is a great idea for birthdays or any other parties. I call this a No age restriction cake. You can make this cake for a kid's first birthdays or your birthdays , anniversaries etc. Made this cake last weekend. My guests said "Wow..Where did buy this?" "Looking and delicious too" . Such lovely comments always inspire me. 

This cake was in my to do list for very long. I kept on postponing this thinking that it will be a tedious work. But it is not difficult as I expected. It took a lot of time as I have only one round baking pan. I used Icing for the outer cover and in between the layers too but you can use whipped cream in between the layers and icing for the icing for the outer cover. Make the icing with only 1/2 of the quantity in the icing ingredients list.

Ingredients (For Each Cake Layer)

1 cup of Cake Flour

1/2 cup Sugar

1/3 cup Yogurt

1/3 cup Oil

1/2 cup Water

1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence

5-6 teaspoons Food Colour

1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

For Icing

2 cups Baking Margarine 

5 cups Icing Sugar

2 teaspoons Vanilla Essence

1. Mix Cake Flour, Sugar, Yogurt,oil, water and vanilla essence for each cake in a separate bowl. (Ingredients given above are for one cake). Add food colours to each bowl, mix it well.   

2. Preheat oven at 180 degrees. I only have one so I prepared the cake batter ready for all the cakes but added baking powder and baking soda before pouring the batter in the pan. 
3. I kept baking sheet in baking pan so that I use the same pan again for baking all the cakes without cleaning it. Add baking soda and baking powder in a bowl, mix it well and pour the cake batter in baking pan and keep it in the oven.

4.  Bake it for 25- 30 minutes. Do the toothpick test. If the toothpick inserted into the cake till the bottom comes out clean, the cake is ready. Let it cool on a grill. 
5. Follow steps 3 and 4 to bake the other cakes. 

6. Now make the Icing : Use baking margarine at room temperature. Cut that into small pieces, whisk it for 10 minutes till it becomes fluffy. Add icing sugar, whisk it well so that icing sugar completely blends into it( for atleast 10 minutes). Add icing sugar 1 cup at a time. When icing is fluffy and smooth, add vanilla essence and finally whisk it once.

7. The next step is layering the cake. I made a 4 layer cake so started with the blue cake. (For a 7 layer rainbow cake, you have to start with purple.) Remove the baking sheet from blue cake, place it on a serving plate, flat side up. Using a kitchen knife, spread the icing evenly on top of the cake. (Use can use whipped cream in between the layers as I already mentioned).

8. Place the other cakes in order  and spread the icing. Trim the edges of the cake. Spread icing all around the cake . Keep it aside for 10-15 minutes for the icing to set. Now using a clean knife, shape the cake to look neat.

9. Design the cake with the remaining icing and sprinkles .

10. Make any occasion special with this super tempting, super delicious cake. Don't forget this is an EGGLESS CAKE !!!!

Chocolate Spoons - Kid's Recipes

These chocolate spoons are easy to make and a perfect idea for kids parties. You can pack and gift these delicious spoons. Add sprinkles of your choice or according to the party colour and theme. Make birthday parties more interesting.  

Things you need

Spoons Plastic or Silver

Plain Chocolate bars 

Butter 

Sprinkles

1. Break chocolate bars to pieces. Place the end of spoons at an angle (I placed them on a small notebook) so that the spoon is in level. 

2. Add butter. A teaspoon of butter will be enough for each bar of chocolate. Butter gives a nice shine to chocolate. Melt chocolate in a double boiler or in microwave. Stir and heat the chocolate till the chocolate is almost melt but not completely. Remove it from heat. 

3. Pour melted chocolate into spoons and quickly add sprinkles to each spoon before the chocolate hardens.
   
   
4. Allow it to set for about 15 - 20 minutes.

Spicy Roasted Chickpeas / Spicy Chana

Wondering what to do with soaked chickpeas!!! One thing is to make Chana Masala and another easy thing to do is to roast it and eat it as a snack. These Roasted Chickpeas are spicy, salty, crunchy and healthy snack.  This is also a low- fat alternative to peanuts. 

Ingredients

2 cups Chickpeas

1/2 teaspoon Salt

1/2 teaspoon Red Chilli Powder

1. Soak chickpeas in water overnight. Discard water and dry them. Heat 2 teaspoons of oil in a pan. Add dried chickpeas to the pan. Saute it every 3 minutes for about 15 minutes. When the colour changes and you see black spots here and there reduce the flame to medium. Add salt and chilli powder. Mix it. Saute it again for 5 minutes.

2. A very easy crunchy snack.