Heart shaped cake n Orange-coffee muffins !

Hello all ... after more than a months silence. Unwinding after the big day I guess. Well valentine's day went past and you know how they say that it gradually fades away - like first it was all dressing up and dates n chocolates n flowers and after you are married you barely even remember the day ! Or even if you do then all that hassle is your last priority. I'm talking of the real world people, some of you may still be doing all the above and good on ya! Anyway ....thanks to media, they just won't let you forget it. 

Well, I bought a heart shaped mold and baked a small cake, sprinkled some icing sugar on it, decorated it with rose petals and put 2 jelly teddies on top. We had it with chocolate ice cream. That is all i could manage at 10 in the night after putting the baby to sleep. We did have some quality time together though with "fruitful talking" which the husbands otherwise usually try to evade. Got my present after all I guess. Women love talking especially the "talks". 

What else, well my daughter is 13 months now and I was itching to bake the other day. So I gathered the otherwise not - so peel - able and squeezable oranges and made orange coffee muffins with vanilla icing on top. Yum! This is the first time i used an ordinary mixer /blender of my food processor and sure it did a wonderful job. I love it when beautiful things come out of simplest of efforts. It not only gives you what you would love to do over and over again but also keeps you inspired to keep doing what you love doing - baking in my case. 

Ananya had half of it while they were still soft and warm. She apparently loved it. The coffee in the muffin is optional and honestly a lil bit of bitter is what I love personally with coffee. You can leave it out in case you are not a coffee fan. Not a biggy. Its funny every time she sees a cake she says- "happy", like we are about to cut another cake!

 Here goes the recipe of the yummiest and easiest Orange coffee muffins on earth.....


 
EGG LESS ORANGE COFFEE MUFFINS 

1/2 cups self raising flour

3/4 tea spn coffee

1 cup brown sugar

2 meduim sized oranges with skin ( i used 4 small ones)

60gm butter - room temp

1/2 cup milk

1/3 cup veg oil

1 tea spn vanilla essence

handful of crushed almonds - optional

In a mixer crush oranges till smooth. Add sugar, vanilla essence, coffee. If they pulp is very thick add some milk. In a pan put flour , mix from the blender. Add butter, oil and remaining milk. Mix well. Put in greased muffin pans ( fill 3/4 the space). Tap the pan and put in a preheated oven for 18-20 min @ 250deg. Bake till the skewer or toothpick comes out clean. Cool, eat, enjoy just like that or with simple vanilla icing on top !!!!