Today is a special day for me. I am posting my 200th post. When I started the blog, I thought that I will not even cross the 100 posts mark. But today I couldn’t beleive that I have completed 200 posts. So in order to celebrate, I prepared this cake. Nowadays, I have started cooking with tofu and pumpkin seeds. I incorporated both in this recipe along with dates. Another important thing about this cake is that it is butter free. I prepared it with olive oil. Only the butter cream has butter in it. If you want a butterless cake, you can skip the butter cream part and serve the cake as it is. This is a spiced cake and it was so soft and firm and very tasty. If anyone doesn’t like the spice, then you can substitute it with vanilla extract. My hubby didn’t like the spice taste. But he liked it along with the butter cream.
Today is the fourth day of Blogging Marathon. Take a look at my blogger friends who are running along with me. 30 Minutes Meals: Gayathri Anand Baked Goods:Monika, For On Going Events:Usha Kids Friendly:PJ, Savitha, Smitha, Srivalli, Veena Aravind Rice Varieties:Champa, Divya, Padma
Procedure: 1. Grind the pumpkin seeds to a fine powder. 2. Mix flour, pumpkin seed powder, cinnamon, baking powder, sodium- bi-carb, salt thoroughly with a whisk. 3. Chop dates and add warm water and let it stand for 10minutes. 4. Beat powdered sugar and oil. Add tofu and dates along with water. 5. Add the dry ingredients and mix. 6. Grease a 8″ cake tin and dust with flour.( I used a rectangular and heart tin) 7. Pour in the prepared batter into the tins. 8. Preheat oven to 180C. 9. Bake for 20minutes. 10. When a tooth pick inserted comes out clean, remove from oven and cool on wire rack. 11. Decorate and serve. For frosting and decoration tutorial please refer my Vanilla cake.
Photo Tutorial:
Add all the dry ingredients
Mix well
Soak chopped dates in warm water
Mix all the wet ingredients
Add the dry ingredients and mix
Pour in the prepared tins
Bake
Apply butter cream on the first layer and keep the other layer on top
I love painting, dress designing and of course cooking. This blog which started as an online cookery book has given me a great insight into baking and has transformed me into a home baker who is now thriving to learn a lot about cakes and decorating techniques. This blog has thousands of tried and tasted vegetarian recipes around the world and eggless bakes.
What a perfectly sweet and grand kick off to my Crazy for Cakes event – Love it, Gayathri … very innovative and so detailed – I am keen to try this out since I came armed with some dates from Dubai :))
Gayathri, congrats on the milestone! wishes for many more such ones to come..the cake looks fantastic, the decoration really superb! Great going..
Congrats on reaching yet another milestone,cake looks very nice,loved the icing.
congrats on ur 2nd century..cake looks really delicious……
Congrats !!! Cake looks so pretty and yummy !!!
Looks stunning….Congrats on the 200th post milestone.
Congrats on your 200th post… Dates, pumpkin seeds, tofu… so many healthy ingredients in a cake??.. WOW…
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Congrats ! This recipe is a keeper !
Congrats…the cake looks awesome … perfect for this lovely day…
Reva
cake looks awesome…..
lovely ! gayathri super job !
Congrats and yummy cake 🙂
OMG its lovely n yummy ..want to finish the cake off by my self..
Congrats!!!
Divine cake!! Congrats on your 200th post.
Never baked an eggless cake but this one is hard to resist!!
Congrats and keep rocking…..Cake looks yummy and delicious…
Kurinjikathambam
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Gorgeous Looking Cake Gayathri!!! Congrats on your Milestone!!
congrats on your 200th post dear… cake looks gorgeous…
What a perfectly sweet and grand kick off to my Crazy for Cakes event – Love it, Gayathri … very innovative and so detailed – I am keen to try this out since I came armed with some dates from Dubai :))
Congrats on the milestone…..cake is looking gorgeous.
Congrats too on this wonderful 200th post – Wish you many many more centuries 🙂
Congrats Gayathri, on your milestone! Beautiful decoration and looks delicious too!
Hearty congratulations dear.I think u r very much obsessed with baking.U r doing it too good.Lovely hand work.U have such a patience.loving it.
Congrats Gayathri on your 200th post. Wishes to achieve many more milestones. Perfect and cute cake to celebrate.
Congrats Gayathri, wishing u more and more milestones, wat an elegant,beautiful and fabulous cake, lovely frosting..
Congrat s n hugs dear..keep up the great work!!
The cake looks GORGEOUS n very professional!
US Masala
Wonderful cake with different mix of ingredients.
Looking for more recipes from you
Cake looks yummy!
it has come out beautifully!…even sounds yum with dates and pumpkin seeds
Smitha
Smitha’s Spicy Flavors
Congratulations on 200th post. I didn’t know that you are into decorating cakes. Good one.
Congrats on ur achievement and that looks gorgeous..
Super cake… congrats on 200th post.
absolutely fab! love the colors and texture..
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Congrats dear..that’s a milestone …wish you many more …cake looks delicious ..love that frosting
Professional touch! Super!
congrats dear….looks fabulous and awesome cake…
Congrats dear …looks awesome
Congrats dear… both on your 200th post and awesome cake
Hi. How to replace tofu in this cake.
You can add equal amount of mashed paneer.
Oils you please precise if tofu is silken or firm or extra firm ? I get all kinds of variety so am confused… thanks sim
We get only one kind of tofu here, which is the firm one. So I grind it until smooth and use. If you get the silken tofu, you can use it.