A beautiful sunrise!

It's all dark. Suddenly, a reassuring glow peeks out of nowhere to brighten your step in a warm summer hue. Before you know it, your vistas are filled with perky oranges, innocent pinks and inviting yellows. The colours of dawn, the choices of a new beginning.A beautiful sunrise! :) (pic caught on the morn' run)

Banana bread! :)

Okay so I had been eyeing these bananas in my fruit basket for some days but never got around to eating them till one day I saw them quite over ripe which is when I remembered this banana bread recipe I had come across a while back on simplyrecipes.com . So off to the kitchen I went and soon the house was filled with the most delicious aroma of banana bread . It came out all nice and crumbly and I had to have it while still warm.
Here's the recipe for it.

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour
4 ripe bananas (smashed)
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
Pinch of salt


Sift together flour,baking soda, salt. Add to it, sugar, eggs, bananas, vanilla essence and bake in a lightly greased dish in a preheated oven at 180c till a needle / tester comes out clean when inserted into the cake.

Carrot cake! :)

For the longest time I had wanted to make a carrot cake.And last weekend, I finally got around to making it. It came out soft and moist and total yummy! I referred to the recipe on the bbc good food website.But for the topping I have just used thickened milk flavoured with vanilla. So here goes the recipe.

Ingredients
3 cups plain flour
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 cups castor sugar
4 eggs
250ml oil
2cups carrots grated
1 cup pineapple pieces chopped

for the frosting
50g icing sugar
2 cups milk
a little vanilla

Mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder and cinnamon together with the sugar. Add oil and beat in the eggs. Fold in the carrots and pineapples and pour into a lightly greased dish . Bake in a preheated oven at 180c till a needle inserted into the cake comes off clean.It was heaven in a bite! :)