OATS NOLEN GUR GREEN APPLE CAKE

I baked this cake on a special occasion. A beautiful cake had to come home but I wish to cook everything from scratch on certain days. I want you to know how I want to celebrate such dates.  "I" because my men are averse to social media. Today is to relax at home with family, the middle aged couple would feel lonely sooner. If its for son's good, we will manage. I am just thinking how to keep alive my blog, I may not want to cook variety. In fact, I may not need to as husband is not food lover. Until that situation arrives, there has to be lot of cooking. Yesterday night, I cooked desi platter as our pre Xmas dinner. Why do you need be conventional during occasions? I mean why cannot I prep up a desi meal at home during Xmas or New Year if ain't my friends from other community are joining us for dinner. I will share with you details about it tomorrow. Now let us share this vegetarian cake recipe with shredded green apple, date palm jaggery, oatmeal OATS NOLEN GUR GREEN APPCAKE which is been flavoured with cinnamon, nutmeg. 

How an average Bengali would spend Xmas? They go out for picnics [choruibhati] during this time of year packing their bags with "JoyNagar er Moya, Komla Lebu, Cake Slices." They would have them in bus, on reaching there would be breakfast of "luchi, aloor dum, jilipi ba roshogolla ba sandesh", thereafter a lunch around 4pm with "mangsho bhaat, maach bhaja, aloo bhaja, chutney, doi" with no time to cook a vegetarian item. My earliest memory of Xmas is related to a small township in Nadia district I was born in. That "city" has a Church running schools, hospital, other charitable trusts. There stays a good number of Hindu converts who baked fresh, warm cakes I chanced upon to eat, the memories of "borodiner mela" in Church ground is fresh inside along with "rajbarir pujo", "mocholman der parar mehendi gaach! I will, I must incorporate a piece of nostalgia in today's share of vegetarian cake that is khejur gur / date palm jaggery. Lets bake together OATS NOLEN GUR GREEN APPLE CAKE.

Green Apple comes to this home to be used in bakes or in smoothies for junior most, it's too sour to have as fruit. At one point you may feel you are having "oats er halua / pudding / halwa." It was dense & moist, not fluffy. I am not in good baker brigade but I am a regular, amateur baker who shares only what comes out decent, matches family's taste bud. 

INGREDIENTS : 

POWDERED ROLLED OATS : 1COFFEE MUG
SHREDDED GREEN APPLE : 1SMALL TEA CUP
BAKING POWDER : 1TSP
BAKING SODA : 1/4TSP
PLAIN YOGURT : 1SMALL TEA CUP
SHAVED DATE PALM JAGGERY / NOLEN GUR : 1/2MEDIUM TEA CUP
BROWN SUGAR : 11/2TBSP +1TBSP
CINNAMON POWDER : 1TSP + 1TSP
NUTMEG POWDER : 1/2TSP
SOFTENED BUTTER : 1/2MEDIUM TEA CUP [I used salted butter]
I USED 200 ML OF NESTLE OR MARRIGOLD FRESH CREAM TO TOP THE CAKE


PROCEDURE :

We have powdered oats in an electric grinder. We have added baking powder, soda to it, mixed well.

Cristine peeled, shredded two green apples for me. I washed them, rubbed with 11/2tbsp brown sugar, 1tsp of cinnamon powder.

I whisked softened butter, date palm jaggery thereafter.

Thereafter, I added plain yogurt to batter, whisked well to make it lump free.

I added wet batter to flour mix, folded in well.

I added shredded green apple, cinnamon + brown sugar mix, folded in throughly. Our batter for cake is ready.

I preheated convection mode microwave at 180*C keeping bake stand inside.

We poured batter to a foiled cake tin until half, in four foiled cups up to half of each.

I baked them at 180*C for 24-25 minutes, the bigger tin first, then four cups in a separate batch.

Once cool, I topped it with 200ml of Nestle or Marrigold fresh cream that has been whisked with 1tbsp of brown sugar. Done!