Delicious Strawberry Frasier Dessert Box for V Day … desserts that win hearts

Eggless Strawberry Fraisier Dessert Box … You can never have enough strawberry desserts and here’s another favourite. Inspired by Fraisier, the classic French dessert, this dessert box is as simple as it is refreshing. Orange, strawberries and cream can only be delicious together, and this was no exception!

The eggless sponge flavoured with the zest of orange pairs with luscious, red strawberries to create a certain kind of magic. The flavours come together really beautifully and each spoon of the dessert is refreshing good! This dessert box will work beautifully with raspberries as well!

The cake itself is a simple sponge, one that you can whisk simply in a bowl OR if you make multiple portions like I do, whisk it in a stand mixer like my SMEG. You can find great deals for appliances like these and several more fabulous offers on CouponzGuru.

This eggless Strawberry Frasier Dessert Box is literally light as a cloud and bursting with fresh flavour, quite a refreshing start to the new year! I absolutely loved how bright and fun it turned out to be, each bite addictive good and light.

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Eggless Strawberry Fraisier Dessert Box

The one bowl, simple eggless sponge flavoured with the zest of orange pairs with luscious, red strawberries to create a certain kind of magic. The flavours come together really beautifully and each spoon of the dessert is refreshing good!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, British
Keyword baking, cake, cream, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, fruit, homemade, one bowl, simple, strawberries, sweet, vegetarian
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 45 minutes
Servings 1 person

Equipment

  • 2 bowls
  • 1 balloon whisk
  • 1 Electric hand beater
  • 1 Piping bag
  • 1 2A nozzle
  • 4" Dessert box

Ingredients

Eggless orange sponge

  • 105 g buttermilk cultured
  • 25 g oil
  • 50 g castor sugar
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • Pinch of salt
  • Zest of 1 small orange
  • 85 g all purpose flour maida

Whipped cream

  • 150 g cream 25% fat , chilled
  • 2 tbsp icing sugar
  • 100 g cream cheese chilled

Strawberries for filling

  • 50 g strawberries similar size sliced for sides
  • 30 g strawberries chopped for filling
  • 15 ml Cointreau to moisten the sponge

Garnish

  • Strawberries, tangerines/kumquats, edible flowers, mint

Instructions

Eggless orange sponge

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly grease and line a 6″ tin with parchment.
  • In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and give them a good whisk.
  • Pour the batter into the tin. Bake for approximately 25-30 minutes, until the tester comes out clean. Cool completely, then trim the top.
  • Stamp out a 4″ square using the dessert box as a guide.

Whipped cream

  • In a large bowl whip the cream with icing sugar until light and slightly moussey.
  • In another bowl whip the cream cheese until smooth. Add the cream cheese to the whipped cream and beat at high speed until smooth and thick, 3-4 minutes. Transfer to a piping bag fitted with a 2A/round nozzle.

Assemble

  • Line the base of the dessert box with a layer of cake and drizzle with Cointreau. {You can alternatively use a sugar syrup}
  • Line the sides of the box with the strawberries slices.
  • Top with about 40g diced strawberries.
  • Pipe over with the cream filling.
  • Garnish with fresh strawberries etc.
  • Serve immediately or refrigerate until required.

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Eggless Brownie Fudge Cake … 5 ingredients to deliciousness. The magic of simple desserts!

Eggless Brownie Fudge Cake … if you are torn between eating brownies or a cake, then this is for you. It’s the best of both worlds where deep, delicious fudgy brownies meets chocolate cake. If you dive in further, you’ll find the promise of pudding as well, so it’s a win win, and a deeply delicious one at that!

This fudgy cake is a hug in a bowl, one of those desserts than you can whip up at a moments notice. It’s comfort eating at best, something that really warms you up and gives you that sweet fix you need. The Brownie Fudge Cake is a great winter dessert option for the holiday season. That bar of chocolate on top is completely optional but melts quite prettily on top of the cake as it steps out of the oven! It adds a frosting of sorts to every bite.

This fudgy bake is as simple as it is delicious, a dessert that gives you instant gratification. 5 ingredients, one bowl, whisked in 2 minutes, baked in under 20 minutes and ready to be eaten immediately. Sold? Dive right in! That’s the magic of simple chocolate desserts!

… Never underestimate the joy of CHOCOLATE. You can add a small touch of chocolate to dessert or make it totally chocolate, what’s not to love! I think it’s my favourite ingredient in dessert, one that always makes me happy. Go down my feed on Instagram, and you’ll know what I’m talking about ♥ !!

I love that you can go gluten free with this Eggless Brownie Fudge Cake too. I’ve made it with sorghum flour/jowar ka aata as well, a millet flour, and it turned out quite nice. It tends to thicken a little more because of the nature of the millet flour, so perhaps use 10g less than all purpose flour, else add a dash of extra milk.

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Eggless Brownie Fudge Cake

This is as simple as it is delicious, the dessert gives you instant gratification. 5 ingredients, a one bowl, whisked in 2 minutes, baked in under 20 minutes and ready to be eaten immediately. Sold? Dive right in!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, British
Keyword baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, one bowl, simple, sweet, vegetarian
Servings 2 people

Ingredients

  • 140 g 55% dark couverture chocolate melted
  • 140 g sweetened condensed milk room temperature
  • 40 g milk warm
  • 50 g all purpose flour maida
  • 1 tsp baking powder

Chocolate bar

  • 60g 55% dark couverture chocolate melted

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180C.
  • Melt the chocolate in a large bowl and stir in the rest of the ingredients.
  • Turn the batter into a 6" bowl and bake for 17-20 minutes. Tent the top with a sheet of foil into 10 minutes of baking to stop the top from overbrowning.
  • Top with a bar of chocolate (optional), let it stand for 5 minutes and serve immediately.

Chocolate bar

  • Pour the melted chocolate into a chocolate bar silicon mold big enough to fit the baking dish. Tap sharply to get rid of any air bubbles and distribute the melted chocolate.
  • Place in the freezer for 10-15 minutes until set. Demold and trim with a sharp heated knife if you need to. Refrigerate until required. The bar can be made in advance, or can be set while the cake is baking.

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Ombre Blueberry Cheesecake … fresh & exciting

Ombre Blueberry Cheesecake … no bake, fresh, exciting and deep flavours in this no bake cheesecake are sublime. Every spoon offers deep berry notes and then the hint of vanilla bean, dessert just like we love them! The one bowl eggless chocolate sponge at the bottom and the ganache on top really bring it all together deliciously!

Colours and natural flavours in quick, simple desserts is what I really enjoy creating. Hopefully I’ll have just as much fun this year as well working with desserts in colour, a ton of natural flavour and layers. I hope you have a colourful and exciting 2024 as well!

There’s something about berries that makes desserts interesting and exciting, delicious too obviously. Berries offer endless charm and endless ways to create dessert. Another great idea for desserts is playing with different hues of the same or similar colours to create creating ombre patterns. I’ve also found that chocolate often brings these desserts together beautifully!

Ombre layers are one of my favourite ways to dessert and this Ombre Blueberry Cheesecake turned out smooth, fresh and really delicious. Each spoonful was addictive, the berry flavours dancing on the palette!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking or share a comment here on the blog if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Eggless Ombre Blueberry Cheesecake

The fresh, exciting and deep flavours in this no bake cake are sublime. Every spoon offers deep berry notes and then the hint of vanilla bean, dessert just like we love them! The one bowl eggless chocolate sponge at the bottom and the ganache on top really bring it all together deliciously!
Makes 2 X 4" cakes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, British
Keyword agar agar, baking, blueberries, cake, cheesecake, chocolate, cream, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, fruit, no bake, no gelatine, simple, sweet, vegetarian
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Setting 12 hours
Total Time 12 hours 50 minutes
Servings 4

Ingredients

Eggless chocolate sponge (makes two 4″ cakes)

  • 105 g buttermilk
  • 25 g oil
  • 50 g castor sugar
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • Pinch of salt
  • 8 g cocoa powder
  • 85 g all purpose flour/maida

Cheesecake filling

  • 300 g cream / 25% fat
  • 2.5 tsp agar agar
  • 50 g castor sugar
  • 100 g white chocolate chopped
  • 250 g cream cheese room temperature, whisked until smooth

Instructions

Eggless chocolate sponge

  • Preheat the oven to 180C.
  • Line the base of two 4″ round dessert tins with foil and the sides with parchment. In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and give them a good whisk.
  • Divide the batter between the tins, about 130g batter per tin. Bake for 20 minutes, until the tester comes out clean. Cool completely, then trim the tops.

Cheesecake filling

  • Whisk together the cream and sugar with agar agar in a glass bowl. Microwave for 30 seconds, whisk again. Repeat 1-2 more times until the cream is steaming, Alternatively, simmer on the stove. We need to reach 79C to activate the agar agar.
  • Add the white chocolate, cover and leave for 5-10 minutes until the chocolate melts. Stir until smooth.
  • Whisk the cream cheese with a little cream-chocolate mixture to loosen it, then whisk it all into the cream-white chocolate mixture until smooth.
  • Divide into 3 bowls – 225g each
  • Bowl 1. Add 1.25 tsp blueberry powder
  • Bowl 2. 1/2 tsp freeze dried blueberry powder
  • Bowl 3. Add 1/4 scraped vanilla bean

Assemble

  • Secure an acetate sheet around the cake.
  • Layer 1 – Pour half the dark blueberry filling (100g) over the cake and place in the freezer until firm on top, 30 minutes.
  • Layer 2 – Pour half the light blueberry filling (100g) over first layer and place in the freezer until firm on top, 30 minutes
  • Layer 3 – Pour half the white filling (100g) over the light blueberry layer. Place in the freezer for 3-4 hours until very firm, gently peel off the acetate sheet, then leave to set in the fridge overnight.
  • Top with a chocolate ganache if desired.

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Best Pecan Cookies … Eggless, wholegrain recipe which makes absolutely delicious cookies!

Best Eggless Pecan Wholegrain Chocolate Chip Cookies … these are the simplest AND most delicious pecan cookies you will make. The ingredients are staple and the process is fuss free like a cookie recipe should be. You’ll never go for a store bought cookie again!

I’ve baked chocolate chip cookies forever. In fact, I think it’s the first thing most bakers attempt when they explore baking at home. For me it was no different. I used to make trays of cookies on request and they always disappeared before I knew it, what with cookie monsters all over the house.

I remember the kids trading my cookies for friends lunches since my cookies were really popular in school and went at a so called premium! At the time, all my cookies, brownies, cakes were with eggs. Cut to now, all my bakes have gone eggless and I am so happy! From the very beginning, I always hated the slight eggy aroma, yet didn’t believe that one could easily bake easily eggs. How wrong I was!

It was a change brought about by the pandemic. With eggs not available easily, there were loads of reader requests for eggless recipes. That was just the thing I needed to broaden my horizons, to challenge the way I baked, to look at ingredients differently. It put an end to a certain kind of baking monotony, made me think out of the box!

The joy of eggless baking!! It’s really the little things that really make a difference, and with no eggs in my pantry, I began a brand new journey into eggless baking. There’s been no looking back and I’m really enjoying it. Every dessert I make is eggless now, vegetarian actually, because I have stopped using gelatine in desserts too. That was again just to accommodate reader requests and I consider it a blessing in disguise.

I’ve been able to connect with a beautiful community online, mainly on Instagram, and it’s motivated me to create more, connect more, and most importantly, enjoy this space more. Do stop by and say hello. I’m @passionateaboutbaking on Instagram😊.

My key changes going eggless were the inclusion of chia seeds as an egg substitute, using buttermilk or yogurt like in this Eggless Mango Pistachio Tart Cake. Another substitute that works beautifully is increasing the bananas in banana loaf like in this amazing one bowl, wholegrain Eggless Pecan Chocolate Chip Banana Bread. Every recipe works differently, baked or no bake, the experimenting is endless yet the rewards are worth the effort!

And back to the pecan cookies. You are absolutely going to love these. I enjoy baking these because they have rich, deep flavour, are crisp and buttery and so wholesome. I’ve been baking these on repeat with pecans the past few years and they are just amazing.


You can always make these cookies with walnuts, or dried cranberries and pistachios, dried blueberries, even dried cherries. We never tire of these at home. They begin to disappear quickly even before they’ve cooled down completely. That’s how good they are!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking or share a comment here on the blog if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it! Happy Holidays 🎄❄️🎄!!

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Best Eggless Pecan Wholegrain Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are the simplest AND most delicious eggless, wholegrain pecan cookies. The ingredients are staple and the process is fuss free. You'll never want a store bought cookie again!
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Cooling 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 18 cookies

Ingredients

  • 115 g unsalted butter soft
  • 100 g light brown sugar desi khaand
  • 100 g whole wheat flour aata
  • 50 g all purpose flour maida
  • 1 tsp chia seeds
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • Pinch salt
  • 50 g pecans chopped
  • 50 g dark chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Line 2 cookies sheets with parchment paper.
  • In a bowl of the stand mixer {or in a large bowl}, whisk the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  • Add the remaining ingredients and mix in at the lowest speed until incorporated.
  • Using a cookie scoop, measure out walnut sized pieces, roll into tight balls and flatten slightly. Top with chocolate chips and pecan halves.
  • Bake for 17-19 minutes until the tops are a light golden brown and firm to touch.
  • Cool completely on cookie racks.

10 Drop Dead Delicious Desserts for Chocolate Lovers … you need to make these now

Here are a few drop dead delicious desserts for chocolate lovers you need to make now. If chocolate is your first love, and it’s hard to see why not, here are a few inspiring recipes you can try out this holiday season. I’m sharing bake and no bake ideas, all vegetarian, no eggs, no gelatine, each good to the last bite!

Chocolate has it’s own sweet language, one that comforts, satisfies, uplifts, seduces, placates, a language that has no barriers. So many emotions around one ingredient that it feels chocolate is always the best way to to bond, to connect, to celebrate, to comfort, to satiate!

AS you might have guessed, chocolate is one of my most used ingredients, as also one of my favourite things to make dessert with. I often say, when all else fails, there’s always chocolate. I’ve even written my first cookbook around CHOCOLATE, something I knew would be my first thematic choice.

There’s something about chocolate. I love working with it, I love creating recipes around it. As you might have noticed, I also love styling desserts that are chocolate based, and I absolutely love shooting them. The mood chocolate desserts create while shooting makes me so happy. That play of colours is so satisfying, so much fun!

So here we go, 10 drop dead delicious chocolate desserts for you to try now. They’re eggless and vegetarian, AND they’re mostly fuss free, quick and simple. If you are looking for more inspiration, you’ll find a ton of chocolate HERE, in my cookbook and on Instagram too!

3 Ingredient No bake Eggless Chocolate Cheesecake
Light, delicious and mousse like, this no bake cheesecake uses just 3 ingredients, 5 if you include the base. With no gelatine, no agar agar and no cornstarch, you must try this!
Check out this recipe
3 Ingredient Chocolate Pudding
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.
Check out this recipe
Eggless Chocolate Mousse Trifle.
Layers of indulgence and absolute deliciousness, almost a ‘death by chocolate’ sort of dessert!
Check out this recipe
Simplest ever Baileys Chocolate Mousse
All you need is 3 ingredients and 5 minutes to make this deeply delicious, creamy, soul satisfying dessert!
Check out this recipe
Eggless Raspberry Chocolate Cake
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.
Check out this recipe
Chocolate Tart Cake
Deeply delicious and very indulgent. Makes one 8″ tart cake
Check out this recipe
Black Forest Dessert Cup
Best way to say hello to the cherry season with a delicious and flavourful take on the classic black forest. If cherries are in season where you are, this is for you!
Check out this recipe
Nama Chocolate Tart
… the name says it all! An addictive, delicious, no bake, eggless tart with a filling of the much loved Nama Chocolate. Each bite is indulgent, a celebration in a tart if you like, a gentle tease on the palette that is so sublime that it's addictive. Don't say I didn't warn you!
Check out this recipe
Eggless Ombre Dream Cake
My take on the viral dream cake and it tastes like a bite of heaven, actually a dream!
Check out this recipe
Wholegrain Eggless Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies
Makes 18 cookies
Check out this recipe

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking or share a comment here on the blog if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

Raspberry Dream Cake … the Magic of Eggless Baking ♥

Eggless Raspberry Dream Cake… delicious pairings that are just so perfect! An eggless sponge moistened with Cointreau is topped with the tart ruby red fresh raspberries that make the heart of this dessert. Finished off with an incredibly flavourful raspberry cream, this dream cake is quite indulgent & satisfying.

If you’ve been here before or follow @passionateaboutbaking on Instagram, you’ll notice my love for desserts with a pop of colour, an edible flower too! My desserts are now all eggless and I’ve never enjoyed creating them as much as I do now. Going eggfree with baking was possibly one of the best decisions I made, something that has inspired me to think beyond my boundaries.

Take this Eggless Opera Cake for example. I’ve made a version with eggs for a Daring Baker challenge several years ago. If you had told me to go eggless with it, I would have politely declined, not as much as giving it a second thought! Cut to now, that Eggless Opera Cake turned out to be one of my most fun creations, something that satisfied the baker and dessert maker in me no end.

Think desserts, think colour, think flavours, textures … and think prettiness! I think the very word dessert should offer ‘poetry’ on a platter, a dish that looks as pretty as it tastes! Those desserts above are an example of what I enjoy doing, the recipes shared either on this blog or on my recipe feed on Instagram at PAB Recipes as also this Eggless Raspberry Dream Cake below.

It’s another mouth watering tin cake box dessert inspired by the Eggless Mango Dream Cake I shared a few days ago. I’ve been a little occupied of late as I try and get my new kitchen studio up and running. It’ll hopefully be ready soon, so until then, dive right in to this dream cake deliciousness!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this Eggless Raspberry Dream Cake, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Eggless Raspberry Dream Cake

An eggless chocolate sponge moistened with Cointreau is topped with tart ruby red fresh raspberries make the heart of this dessert. Finished off with an incredibly flavourful raspberry cream, this dream cake is quite indulgent & satisfying. Makes one tin cake {5.5x3inch}
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, British
Keyword baking, cake, chocolate, cream, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, fruit, one bowl, raspberries, simple, summer dessert, sweet, vegetarian
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Cooling/Chilling 4 hours 30 minutes
Total Time 5 hours 45 minutes
Servings 4 people

Ingredients

Eggless chocolate sponge

  • 210 g buttermilk
  • 50 g oil
  • 100 g castor sugar
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • Pinch of turmeric optional
  • Pinch salt
  • 15 g cocoa powder
  • 155 g all purpose flour/maida

45ml Cointreau / raspberry syrup / simple lime syrup

150g fresh raspberries

Raspberry cream filling

  • 225 g cream cheese
  • 30 g icing sugar
  • 85 g whipping cream
  • 90 g raspberry sauce {recipe follows}

Raspberry sauce {Yield 90g}

  • 65 g frozen raspberries
  • 60 g sugar
  • 1 tsp cornflour
  • Juice of 1/2 lime

To garnish

  • Fresh raspberries mint leaves, edible flowers

Instructions

Eggless chocolate sponge

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Line a 6″ tin with parchment.
  • In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and give them a good whisk.
  • Turn the batter into the tin and bake for about 40-45 minutes, until the tester comes out clean. Cool completely, then trim the top. Gently fit the cake into the dream cake tin {5.5x3inch}.

Raspberry cream filling

  • Whip the cream cheese with icing sugar until smooth. Reserve.
  • In a large bowl, whip the cream until stiff peaks.
  • Whip in the cream cheese mixture and the cooled raspberry sauce.
  • Put into a piping bag fitted with a 2A nozzle.

Raspberry sauce

  • Place all the ingredients in a saucepan and leave to macerate for 30 minutes.
  • Simmer over low heat until the berries break down, mashing them against the sides.
  • Once the colour is nice and deep, the berries have broken down completely and the mixture has thickened slightly, 4-5 minutes, take off heat.
  • Strain the raspberry sauce and cool completely. refrigerate until required. This can me made in advance.

Assemble

  • Moisten the cake generously with the Cointreau.
  • Top the moistened cake with fresh raspberries. Pipe over the raspberry cream, level out and leave to set in the fridge for a couple of hours.
  • Top with fresh raspberries, edible flowers, mint etc.

Note

  • Since the dessert is set in a dream cake tin and uses fresh berries AND a berry cream, it is best consumed within a day. To keep it for longer, consider making this in a glass trifle or dessert bowl .

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