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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reese@SeasonwithSpic
What a delicious way to celebrate your milestones, Kankana! These mini bundt cakes look fantastic. I like that they are gluten free too. Cheers to you for all the wonderful things you have shared. Keep them coming!
Magic of Spice
Happy 2nd Blog Birthday! What delightful little cakes these are!
Sylvie @ GitK
Healthy gluten free cake?! I'm all about that. Happy 2 years of blogging and here's to many more!
nags
congratulations on the 2 years 🙂 have a wonderful year ahead kankana
Sandra
Wonderful & delicious site...love it!!! Happy Blog Birthday!
nipponnin
Happy Blog Birthday! Love your blog!
Amanda@ChewTown
Congratulations on your second birthday! Mine is coming up in a couple of months, and like you, I feel like its the best thing I've ever done 🙂 You should be extremely pround of what you have created here... it's GORGEOUS!
Loren
so this recipe inspired me to do something similar but I totally fudged it up! my cake sank in the middle and stuck to the pan even though I sprayed it and dusted it with flour! I need some advice on how to make a regular flour and butter fatty version of this recipe! Lol please help!
Kankana Saxena
Sorry for the late response Loren! I am not an expert baker and I have a steady measurement for cake as taught by my mom. It's always 3 eggs, 1 cup flour and 1 cup oil. Mom never liked using butter in cake but at times I replace it with 1/2 cup oil and 1/2 cup butter. I am really not sure why your cake sank 🙁 So sorry!
Loren
maybe it was the use of butter instead of oil... I'm definitely not a baker either! Lol thank you though I appreciate it! 🙂
Radhika Vasanth
Kankana, Wishing you a very happy blog birthday. You are such an inspiration. Wishing you many more beautiful and fruitful years of blogging. Hugs.
Jean (Lemons and Anchovies)
What an exciting year for you, Kankana. Congratulations on all the accomplishments in such a short time, wow! Cheers to many more!
Arch
Happy birthday to your blog...220 posts in 2 years, you rock girl ! And so do your clicks...Hope 2013 is even more awesome for you and your blog !
Sonali
Congrats on your blog anniversary.Love to see it grow bigger in years to come.Love your photography as always.
Tanvi@SinfullySpicy
A very HAPPY blog birthday to you hon 🙂 Its a pleasure to see your work and posts. Keep them coming.
These bundts look so cute & neat. I wish I owned a mini bundt pan..wanna whip them right away!
Loren
Been following your blog for a month now and I love it! my mother's birthday is Saturday.But she has a super sweet tooth! how did the texture come out with this cake? I'm thinking I'll use half regular flour and half almond meal.Is this cake good for super sweet toothers!? lo
Megan
Well Done on your two years!
Your Photography is amazing and now I have a mission to go find mini bundt cake tins!!
Nami | JOC
I remember our blog is same age (mine is just a day older). I am really looking forward to following your growing blog and amazing photography this year too!
Nami | JOC
Oops I click enter way too quickly...sorry! Happy 2 years Kankana!
Reem | Simply Reem
Happy Birthday My DEAREST "SUNSHINE & SMILE"
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This is just gorgeous!!!
maddie
amazing photos! wish you more bloganniversaries to celebrate 🙂
Colette @ JFF!
Aren't these cute!
Happy blogday!
Ella-HomeCookingAdv
Happy bloganniversary :). you definitely had a wonderful year hope 2013 will bring as many happy events as 2012:)