Today we reach our final destination in our virtual world tour. Wow! What a great journey it has been. For the past one month, my mind has been fully occupied with countries and their special dishes and even my dreams were filled with cookies and cakes. I am really happy to have done this Marathon otherwise I wouldn’t even have known so many cookies from around the world. Though I have staggered a lot from the cookie theme, I still fell proud. And to celebrate the completion of this marathon, I bring you a sweet treat from Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in southern Africa and it shares its boundaries with South Africa in the south, Botswana in the southwest, Zambia in the northwest and Mozambique in the east. There is so much coincidence while I prepared for this cake. The blogger who wrote the original recipe also made it for the completion of her global adventures and her daughter helped her in glazing the cakes.
When I was going through the recipe, Sruti who is on Pooja holidays, saw that snap where the blogger’s daughter was glazing the cakes. She also wanted to do it and she wouldn’t let me go until I said yes. Though these are called as cakes, these are basically sweet yeasted rolls baked in muffin pan and glazed with a simple sugar glaze. These candy cakes are available all over Zimbabwe’s bakeries. Ifelt that the cake was perfect on its own but with the sugar it was too sweet. And when I say that there is yeast, don’t expect it to be light and fluffy. These have very crispy crust and soft and dense interiors. And these are quite easy to make. Today it was raining non stop and climate was very cold. So I preheated the oven to the lowest temperature setting for 5 minutes, switchedd off the oven and placed the dough inside for the prooving. And I was so happy with the result. I loved the pink glaze though it may not be the perfect glaze.
Recipe Source: Global Adventure
Makes 12 Cakes
Ingredients:
Flour-2 1/2 cups
Sugar-3/4 cup
Salt-1/4 tsp
Vanilla Essence-2 tsp
Butter-1/4 cup
Instant Yeast-2 tsp
Curd/ Yogurt-1/4 tsp
Warm Milk-1/2 cup
For The Glaze:
Icing Sugar-1 1/2 cups
Milk-2-3 tbs
Pink Food Colour- a few drops
Procedure:
In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, salt and yeast.
Add butter and vanilla and mix.
Add curd and mix well.
Finally add warm milk and knead to for a soft dough.
Cover with cling wrap and set aside for 1 hour or until double.
Now grease a miffin tray.
Divide the dough into 12 equal portions and place each in a muffin cup.
Cover and set aside for 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 175°C.
Bake the cakes for 30 minutes or until browned.
Cool on wire rack.
Mix together icing sugar, milk and food colur to make a glaze. Add milk by table spoons until you get the right consistency.
Take a table spoon of the glaze and pour it on the cake and allow it to drip.
The glaze will become firm in a while.
Enjoy with a cup of coffee or tea.
Eggless Chikenduza
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Flour-2 1/2 cups
- Sugar-1/2 cup
- Salt-1/4 tsp
- Vanilla Essence-2 tsp
- Butter-1/4 cup
- Instant Yeast-2 tsp
- Curd/ Yogurt-1/4 tsp
- Warm Milk-1/2 cup
For The Glaze
- Icing Sugar-1 1/2 cups
- Milk-2-3 tbs
- Pink Food Colour- a few drops
Instructions
Procedure
- In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, salt and yeast.
- Add butter and vanilla and mix.
- Add curd and mix well.
- Finally add warm milk and knead to for a soft dough.
- Cover with cling wrap and set aside for 1 hour or until double.
- Now grease a miffin tray.
- Divide the dough into 12 equal portions and place each in a muffin cup.
- Cover and set aside for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 175°C.
- Bake the cakes for 30 minutes or until browned.
- Cool on wire rack.
- Mix together icing sugar, milk and food colur to make a glaze. Add milk by table spoons until you get the right consistency.
- Take a table spoon of the glaze and pour it on the cake and allow it to drip.
- The glaze will become firm in a while.
- Enjoy with a cup of coffee or tea.
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The little cakes look nice with the dollop of icing. I have enjoyed your entire series
Aw that’s so cute. .I love that click and I think Shruti has done a wonderful job with that icing..I can see her concentrating. Hugs for her.
Gayathri you have compiled a complete egg less series of bakes and trust me we have to look no further while searching. Stupendous efforts .
Gayathri, your month long series on eggless cookies, sweets treats were stunning and marvelous. Trust me so many are bookmarked!..This candy cake looks so inviting and the pink colour so bright..your daughter has done a great job!
Gayathri,u simply rocked with ur cookies theme, everytime i come here u never failed to amaze me.. Candy cake came out fabulous and can see Shruti’s participation, hugs to her.
That glaze is so pretty and so is Sruthi. Love the picture of her glazing the cake.
You were amazing this whole month baking cookies everyday from all around the world and posting it the same day. I could not even have dared doing such a thing. You are an amazing baker and enjoyed all your bakes.
Shruti frosts well and that reflects in that lovely pink color. Yummy cakes and candy cake is an apt name
Love these yeasted cupcakes!! It was a great visual traet to check out all the cookies and other goodies in this series!!
it was a pleasure doing this series with you..like a virtual baking class..you made this group proud with your work…loved it…and this recipe rounds it up welll
Very tempting Zimbabwean candy cakes. Sruthi did a =n excellent job with the icing.
I thoroughly enjoyed all your bakes in this A-Z International series. Kudos to your efforts. I’ve so many of them bookmarked already 🙂
What a colorful cake! And love the pic of Sruthi helping you with the icing and so much of concentration!So sweet of her :).
It was wonderful doing this marathon with you and I have bookmarked this entire journey to try out later. I am still wondering how managed to cook,click and post on the same day!!!
What a visual treat of cute looking pink cakes.. Yum
wow fabulous cake and it looks wonderful , allowing you kiddo to drizzle the icing was a nice idea 🙂 Wonderful way to finish the marathon 🙂 Love all your cookies and cakes 🙂
your daughter is so cute as she is concentrating so hard icing the buns
So cute looking candy cakes and Shruti has done a wonderful job with icing..
Like mother like daughter. Amazing job by Shruti. Love the pic. Gayatri you have done an amazing job with the marathon. LOved all your bakes.
This is AMazing!