Wish you all an extremely delightful 2013! I hope you get to smile more, love more and achieve more. Make the best of each day and live a little more!
As I step in to a brand New Year, Sunshine and Smile steps in to its third year, celebrating its 2nd Birthday today with 220 posts including 197 recipes. That’s a lot of cooking in two years, my friend! Seriously, who knew surrendering life to a gastronomic journey could turn out to be so much fun and so exciting?
It’s probably one of best two years of my life which, honestly speaking, I wouldn’t trade for anything else.
2012 came with so many surprises that at times, it was overwhelming and I couldn’t stop smiling from cheek to cheek. It was the year when I did my very first product photo-shoot followed by another food photography for a client. I started Project 365 with the hope to improve my camera work and it helped lot. The year also got several of my recipes featured in different food sites and my blog got featured in SAVEUR. I was invited in couple of food events, which always made me tap my feet! It was also the year when we travelled to Paris and Rome, spent ten days absorbing it’s beauty and indulged in one of our favorite cuisines.
All in all, it was quite a busy and blissful 2012!
None of these would have been possible without your constant encouragements, your appreciations and acceptance. A BIG THANK YOU for dropping by, for your comments, your emails and for enjoying what I share.
A birthday celebration is incomplete without a cake and what I have here is healthy plus gluten free. Not that I changed my diet, it’s just that I used almond flour instead of all-purpose flour which made it gluten free and I added olive oil instead of butter and there by healthy. The combination of coffee with cocoa always works for us; it’s never overly sweet plus the flavor of coffee feels always extra nice on a cold winter night.
Arvind usually runs away from cocoa but this time, he couldn’t resist from picking one after another and finally announced that it’s the best cake I ever baked. In addition to that, my friend’s 2-year-old son who doesn’t have a sweet tooth kept saying ‘yummy’ after every bite in the cutest voice I have ever heard! I am sure you will understand how precious such moments feel; it’s always worth all the effort.
I am sure this cake would be requested several times in future and I hope it turns out equally good every single time!
Cocoa Coffee Mini Bundt Cake
Ingredients
- 3 eggs (kept at room temperature)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup olive oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup almond flour
- 2 tablespoons coffee powder
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F
- Grease baking pan with oil and dust with some flour.
- In a mixing bowl, crack 3 eggs, add sugar to it and whisk until it’s creamy.
- Pour oil to the bowl and continue whisking until it’s all mixed together.
- In another bowl, sift the almond flour, baking powder, baking soda, coffee powder and cocoa powder and give it a light whisk.
- Now, add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients bowl and whisk until it becomes a creamy batter.
- At the end, pour the vanilla extract and give another whisk.
- Pour the batter to the mini bundt pan and let it bake for about 25 minutes. Poke with a toothpick in the center of the cake and if it comes out clean, it’s done!
- Let it cool for 5 minutes before you take the cake out of the pan.
Notes
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Gabriela
Happy birthday and happy new year! The photos are breath taking!
indugetscooking
You definitely had a great year. Congratulations! And wish you a wonderful year ahead... 🙂
Spandana
Congratulations for all the achievements you had. A very happy Blog birthday!
Cakes look so very cute!
Sarvani
Happy blog birthday kankana! I discovered your blog this year.. And you have a delightful blog out here! Wishing you greater success with the blog for the coming year! As for these mini-cakes.. I can so do with one right now!! Coffee and choc is my fav combination.. And I love miniature versiopns of everything.. So these are really speaking to me!!
Zee
Congratulations! You have a beautiful blog and these mini bundts look amazing!
Laura (Tutti Dolci)
Happy blog birthday! These bundts are the perfect way to celebrate - I love the mini size! 🙂
Lail | With A Spin
Congratulations and Happy bloganniversary. Gorgeous photography!
Best wishes for the 2013!
Mallika
Congrats Kankana! Your blog is splendid. 2 years of successful marathon blogging with delicious recipes and gorgeous photographs. Love your blog and will be hooked for loads more to come here.
Those Cocoa coffee bundts look cute. I would love to steal that vintage spoon away from you... Beautiful!
Archana
Congrats Kankana. Good wishes for more and more..Beautiful blog and pictures. Lovely recipe too.
Apu
They look delicious and congrats on the 2 year anniversary.
Sneh | Cook Republic
Your pictures always make me smile!! Love your blog!! Congratulations on a great milestone and wishing you the very best! Happy New Year 🙂
Rose/Magpies Recipes
Happy blog birthday and a very happy new year to you K!
Radhika JustHomemade
Hearty Congratulations! Kana.. Wish you many such glorious anniversaries..
Absent minded me, completely forgot my blog's birthday in 2012!
Wish you a blissful year ahead..
Those buntlets are seriously cute.
Rosa
Gorgeous bundt cakes and photography! Happy bloganniversary and to many more. Looking forward to seeing what you'll share with us in 2013.
Best wishes for the New Year!
Cheers,
Rosa
Deepa
Congrats on your blog-anniversary...With each post you are setting your standards high. Love your posts, write-ups and breath taking photos. Last click with recipe menu card style looks awesome
dishesfrommykitchen
Congrats Kankana !!! All the best for upcoming years. Pictures are stunning as usual. I have similar plate and the painted same color WB recently 🙂
Pavithra
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Grishma
Congratulations on starting 3rd year of Sunshine and Smile! Loved following all of your posts for their beautiful writing n gorgeous photography. Looking forward to another 197 recipes this year :))Good luck babe! You rock 🙂
dassana
congrats kankana and wishing you much more for the future. the cakes are looking gorgeous and coffee and chocolate is a hard to resist combo.
Vijitha Shyam
Congrats sweetie. Wishes and prayers for more and more years of happy cooking and blogging. I love you and you know that. May you smile and laugh more this year.
Delicious gluten free delight and it is such an easy breezy recipe. Lovely!
Dixya
Congratulations for the blog and everything great you have achieved. I can't stop drooling at your pics. Yum yum yum. Happy new year and pics are as always awesome..