It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow, and if you’re still looking for creative and beautiful quick desserts to make for that special Mum, I have you covered! It’s a mix of ideas, recipes of course, ideas that are eggless, bake and no bake, and are full of love, colour too!
The simplest & most delicious No Bake Mango Cheesecake
Sweet, creamy, indulgent and so satisfying, if Mum loves mangoes, make this for her. A recipe that uses just 4 ingredients for the cheesecake filling, this is the quickest, eggless, no bake mango cheesecake I've ever made!
It's endlessly fascinating to see the shades of blue that the butterfly pea flower reflects in the blue matcha tea. There's something so calming and ethereal about blue in patisserie, it's a great choice for Mother's Day!
An eggless chocolate sponge, deep delicious ganache, bright fresh raspberries topped with the smoothest and most luxurious mascarpone cream. The flavours do a magic dance on the palette, each spoonful delightful. The raspberries were quite special here though you can always use strawberries if you like. Makes 4 small cakes.
I love using natural colours of ingredients in desserts and this pistachio panna cotta is one Mum will fall in love with. The #nogelatine dessert is as simple as can be, and requires just 4 ingredients.
… a delicious burst of flavours and colours in a tart which is a cake OR a cake that looks like a tart! If Mum loves a tart this is for her, and if Mum loves a good cake, you know this is it! Win Win for sweet Mum!
… Light as a cloud and bursting with fresh flavours, a refreshing dessert box you can wrap up for Mum. The little strawberries on the sides are all heart and just what she's going to love!
Delicious layers of happiness on repeat! These simple dessert shots are absolute joy; so much flavour and texture, oh-so-pleasing on the palette, it's a fuss free dessert inspired by much loved Biscoff. The pairing of these crisp biscuits and biscuit spread, a taste that grows on you, will make Mum so happy!
Light, delicious and mousse like, this no bake cheesecake uses just 3 ingredients, 5 if you include the base. When so little yields so much deliciousness, you know it's time to make it! And if Mum loves chocolate, or cheesecake, or both, this is definitely a good idea ♥
Here's another scrumptious idea for Mum the mango lover! A crisp biscuit crumb gives way to a nice bite of slightly tart mango, then the sweetness of mascarpone floods the palette. The jelly really makes this shine!
Eggless Saffron Pistachio Cupcakes with Saffron Buttercream
Sweet dreams are made of these! Festive, simple and ever so delicious, these are literal cupcakes baked in demitasse cups. Perfect for Mum. I'm sure she'll love the idea!
.. Rich, deeply delicious, satiny smooth and ever so easy, anyone can stir this up in a matter of minutes. Nothing can comfort the soul like a good indulgent old school chocolate pudding. This is going to be ahit with Mum!
A light, refreshing vegan jelly pudding perfect for spring and summer, perfect for now and PERFECT FOR MUM! With just 4 ingredients, this wobbly pudding is as simple as it is delicious!
This is love at first bite. It's such fun when a handful of ingredients come together so deliciously. If Mum loves a good banoffee, this Biscoff twist to the banoffee is everything good. It's really easy to make as well.
Eggless Ombre Layered Cake… Delicate, delicious and so soothing.
The chocolate, coffee and vanilla bean combination really is sublime. This feels like a tiramisu yet does a different waltz on the palette, a different flavour profile! Maybe it's the mascarpone cream that keeps it so addictive, maybe it's the pairing of flavours but this ombre cake will win Mums ♥.
No eggs, No Worries! 10 Best Eggless Cakes for V Day! I got you covered for a wide variety of eggless cakes that you can bake this Valentines Day. You can bake these anytime actually what with egg shortages being reported extensively. The more I experiment andbake without eggs, the more I am convinced that the lack of eggs cannot be a deterrent if you love baking like I do.
Just recently, I figured out how to bake really nice eggless lady fingers or eggless savioardi, hence the Eggless Strawberry Charlotte below. I hope you find what you’re looking for…Happy Valentines Day!
So here goes, please bake something for someone you love ♥!
Eggless Coffee Chocolate ❤️ Cavity Cake
… how deep is your love! If there was cake to demonstrate how deep your love is, this might just be it, the most apt #VDay cake. A heart shaped eggless coffee cake with a heart cavity cut out that is flooded with indulgent dark chocolate will convey your love deeply! This Kahlua moistened cake is delicious, the coffee chocolate pairing my all time favourite.
… because the month of love can't go by without a Persian love cake! It's almost Spring in the subcontinent and everything is a riot of colours. With the roses in full bloom, this is one cake I love to make at this time of the year. Saffron and pistachio add delicious notes to the simple one bowl eggless sponge, and indulgent beautiful hues to the shrikhand buttercream. What's not to love in a cake which is simple and stunning!
I love everything about tarts. I got this new tart tin that I've been dying to use and I was so pleased to see how well the cake baked up in it, left the sides and base so easily and looked so pretty! This chocolate tart cake is inspired by a dark chocolate strawberry pudding from my cookbook and it turned out great!
Delicate, calming and deeply indulgent, this is a special cake for now. The cake has gentle flavours and they all come together in a nice balance. An eggless sponge flavoured with fresh orange zest, Cointreau to moisten it {or a sugar syrup if you like}, a quick raspberry compote to bring in the pink, then a vanilla bean layer… Magic in every bite!
Eggless Strawberry Charlotte Cake … with homemade eggless lady fingers
Lady fingers are delightful little sponge cakes that are best known to be the base of a tiramisu. They have immense possibilities and this charlotte cake is one of them. That I managed to make it eggless makes me quite happy! Light buttery addictive eggless lady fingers build up the sides, a spiral baked of the same dough make the base. The filling is a silky smooth cream in two flavours, strawberry and vanilla bean, separated by a layer of fresh strawberries. It's a special cake, quite irresistible.
Layered cakes are really fun and always special. This one might look like a bit of work, but trust me, it's as simple as simple can be. A quick one bowl fuss free 'fail proof' batter that is part wholegrain and really moist and flavourful, a 2 ingredient buttercream that is no fail again and has an optional spoon of ghee, then a fruit filling.
Indulgent layers of coffee and chocolate make this very special cake. This is my vegetarian take on the classic French Opera cake, a 6 layer cake that needs little introduction. Eggless almond sponges, coffee syrup, a potent coffee buttercream and chocolate ganache make up 6 layers that are covered in a shiny, simple chocolate glaze. The cake is traditionally finished with Opera written across the top, possibly the part I enjoyed most.
This is a cavity cake filled with everything that screams love – the most perfect strawberries, luscious dark chocolate cream, then an indulgent vanilla bean cream, all wrapped in a mandarin flavoured eggless sponge.
A cake as delicious as it is interesting, that cream baked into the centre is divine! The idea to bake the cream within a cake is really interesting, especially for us on the subcontinent where whipping cream is hard to come by. How fun that you bake two layers of cake with the cream already within!
The season of love is incomplete without a mango tres leches! Everything is fresh about this cake. The light sponge, the beautifully addictive milk, the sweet mangoes and then the stabilized cream that holds the mangoes together.
The Secret To My Cavity Cake; here’s how I make it! This is for all those who have messaged me and waited patiently for a video on how I made the cavity I’m addicted to making, that fun idea that came to me a while ago. Quite a genius idea if I may say so myself ♥!
What is a cavity cake you might ask? It’s a term I coined! Think of it as the opposite of an entremet perhaps, a cake with a filling vs a cake in a filling. It’s a fun concept, much simpler than you can imagine and it works well with all cakes, with eggs or eggless. It’s a simple technique if you watch the video, and the result is quite neat.
Cavity cakes are colourful, they are fun, they offer a great surprise when you slice them AND they’re simple! Oh and of course they’re a great change from the same old boring cakes we see everyday..
Think about it – colours, layers, flavours, textures – if you can think it, you can do it!.
While thinking of different ideas for my feed on Instagram, I came up with this idea one day, not sure if it would work. Stamped out the centre of an eggless cake with a slightly smaller steel cutter and I thought that was quite neat. Now for the base. I sliced a layer of the stamped out bit and voila, a cavity cake was created. Just a couple of graded steel cake rings is what I needed!
Mango Saffron Shrikhand Cavity Cake was the first cavity cake I ever made, and it was love at first bite! This wasn’t just a simple layered cake. This delicious eggless cake had a cavity filled and then topped with the most indulgent and luxurious saffron shrikhand. That just meant more deliciousness in every bite!
The first time I posted a cavity cake on Instagram, it caused much happiness and a bit of a stir among my followers. To be honest, the level of interest caught me off guard. I was flooded with questions both on the post and in direct messages.
Each time I shared a new cavity cake there was renewed interest, more questions, requests for a how to cut such a neat cavity video etc. It was time to shoot The Secret To My Cavity Cake and here it is on the blog. It’s been recreated several times, with cakes with eggs and without and the feedback has been great.
It’s always nice to get feedback and it’s mostly been around two things – how easy the process is after watching the video, and what a surprise everyone got when the first slice was cut! I agree. Each time I slice a cavity cake, I’m wait eagerly to see the inside, the cavity. It’s always fascinating, the only kind of cavity you’re going to love!
I’ll share this delicious version of the cavity cake next week, so please stay tuned! It’s a layered cake. Three layers fill the cavity – dark chocolate, vanilla bean white chocolate and strawberryjelly from scratch. I always have frozen berries in my freezer but you could use fresh ones too. The recipe is a simple one bowl eggless sponge, and the way to make the cavity is as simple as it looks. Can’t wait to share it!
Do check out several different versions on my reels on Instagram, a few here on the blog.