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Eggless Blueberry Cheesecake Trifle … 6 layers of deliciousness

Eggless Blueberry Cheesecake Trifle… A simply delicious dessert that comes together beautifully in a few minutes. What’s not to love about berries and cream? Throw in some eggless cake and you have the most satisfying trifle ever! The flavours and colours are mood uplifting and it’s a great make ahead dessert.

That blueberry compote is honestly very simple and sooooo yum! You can make it out of fresh or frozen blueberries and it’s ready in under 10 minutes. That recipe is on my blog, one I used recently in this Eggless Blueberry Chocolate Layer Cake.

It’s really nice to have basic recipes that work well, something that you can use over and over again to create different desserts or reimagined versions of the same dessert. Is that something you do? I do that often and I honestly really enjoy it! Take for example these Tiramisu inspired desserts…

I play with different components that I know work well to create something fun and fresh. Keeps the mundane away, gives me something interesting to make, style, shoot AND gives everyone a different dessert to dig into each time! Win win!!

As for the blueberry compote, that’s another element I use often. Eggless Blueberry Chocolate Cake with blueberry cream cheese filling & frosting is one recipe where I recently used it. There are SO MANY more.

So many dessert options, so little time – 4 ingredient Nobake Blueberry Cheesecake, Blueberry Cheesecake Tart, Blueberry Dessert Box, Blueberry Biscoff Dessert Box, Eggless Layered Blueberry Cake … all these use the blueberry compote, all these are eggless and vegetarian and all these are DELICIOUS! It’s no wonder blueberries are one of my favourite berries!!

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

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Eggless Blueberry Cheesecake Trifle

What’s not to love about berries and cream? Throw in some eggless cake and you have the most satisfying trifle ever! The flavours and colours are mood uplifting. This is a great make ahead dessert.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword baking, blueberries, cake, cheesecake, cream, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, eggless layered cake, simple, sweet, trifle, vegetarian

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 45

Chill 2

Total Time 3

Servings 4

Ingredients

Eggless sponge

105 g buttermilk
25 g oil
50 g castor sugar
Pinch turmeric {optional}
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
Pinch of salt
75 g all purpose flour/maida

Cream cheese filling

150 g cream cheese
30 g icing sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
75 g whipping cream

Blueberry compote

160 g blueberry fresh/ frozen
50 g demerara sugar
1 tbsp cornflour
3 tbsp water
Juice of 1/2 lime

Instructions

Eggless sponge

Preheat the oven to 180C. Line a 6″ square tin with parchment.
In a large bowl add all the ingredients and whisk until smooth. Transfer the batter to the prepared tin and bake for 25-30 minutes until light golden brown, and the tester comes out clean. Cool completely, then cut into cubes.

Blueberry compote

Stir everything together in a heavy bottom pan EXCEPT lime juice.
Simmer until the berries release colour and soften slightly, 3-4 minutes.
Remove the berries to a bowl. Continue to simmer the syrup for about 30 seconds until it’s thick and glossy. Keep a close eye because this happens quite quickly.
Take off the heat and pour the syrup back over the berries.
Add the lime juice, stir gently and leave to cool.

Cream cheese filling

In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla extract until smooth. Reserve.
In a larger bowl, beat the whipping cream until firm, then whip in the cream cheese until smooth and fluffy.

Assemble

Add in a layer of cake cubes and spoon over the cheesecake cream. Top with blueberry compote and repeat.
Place the trifle in the fridge for a couple of hours for the flavours to mature. You can moisten the cake cubes with a simple lime sugar syrup if you like.

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15 Delicious Eggless Desserts To Make For Mum – Happy Mother’s Day

Perfect dessert ideas for Mother’s Day! Nothing can say it better than a dessert made with love. Here’s a bunch of ideas for you to go through to rustle up something special for Mum. Whether it’s chocolate, cherries, mango, lime, strawberries, carrots or matcha, I have you covered. The desserts are all eggless and each one quite special. If you need more inspiration, please head to my feed on Instagram!

**Eggless Coconut Lime Mango Tea Cak**e. When you think of a match made in heaven, count this in. This is a simple, one bowl, hand whisked recipe that I experimented a few times before getting it right. The cake is quite delicious as it is, also good with a serving of single cream and fresh mangoes. Then again, you could give it a drizzle of coconut milk & condensed milk, else like us, enjoy it with a light buttercream topped with fresh mangoes! It’s the perfect tea cake for Mum! Recipe **here**

**Eggless Black Forest Trifles**. Who doesn’t like a good black forest? With cherries finally here, Mum is going to love it. Everything from scratch, it’s surprising how simple dessert can be. A quick one bowl eggless chocolate sponge moistened with Kirsch, thickened almond cream, a simple cherry pie filling made on the stove top, a layer of chocolate ganache because chocolate makes everything better, then a little more cake. These are moist, bursting with flavour and just right for summer. She’ll love them!
Recipe **here**

**Eggless Nobake Mango White Chocolate Cheesecake**. Hello mango season, my favourite season of all and I’m sure Mum will love this too. This no bake, eggless, no gelatine cheesecake celebrates the best summer has to offer, nature currently a riot of colours. Brighten her day with this! Recipe **here**

**Eggless Carrot Orange Walnut Cake** with a whipped orange buttercream is my best carrot cake to date. Everything came together so well from the sweetness of the carrots, the bite of walnuts and then the fresh appeal of orange zest. Tell Mum it has carrots, and she’ll love you for it! Recipe **here**

**Eggless Mango & Cream Trifles.** Simple and delicious dessert ideas, as you can see, this is something I absolutely love. Trifles are easy, trifles are fun and trifles are quick to bring together! They’re even more fun when mangoes are in season because there’s so much more you can do. These simple one bowl eggless sponges are moistened with a mango syrup, have a layer of fresh mango, then a smothering of a light eggless mango curd. Every bite screams of the goodness of an Indian summer complete with a vibrant burst of flavours and colours. If Mum likes mangoes, this is another great idea! Recipe **here**

**Eggless Caramel Brownies Trifles**. Cocoa brownies smothered in an indulgent vanilla cream and topped with salted caramel – on repeat! Another drop dead delicious idea for a quick dessert. I’ve shared the recipe for eggless cocoa brownies just below. Go on, spoil her with this! Recipe **here**

**Eggless Fudgy Chocolate Walnut Brownies**, brownies Mum will ask you to make on repeat! They are so delicious and also so simple. Fudgy, chocolatey and deep, these are brownies you will bake often! *I must confess that I sometimes bake them just to make brownie trifles*; they’re so good. Recipe **here**

**Shrikhand Mango Jelly Pastry Tart** {no gelatine}. It’s always fun to try a new dessert idea and pastry is something I really enjoy. This dessert pastry is a saffron shrikhand paired with a fresh mango jelly nestled in a crisp delicious eggless pastry shell. And if you aren’t up to making the pastry, do try the jelly which is simple and quite refreshing. Made with fresh mango puree and diced mangoes, it’s a great summer treat for Mum. Recipe **here**

**Eggless Banana Bread**… Wholegrain, one bowl, quick and addictively good! Here’s a recipe I’ve been making over the years and I simplify it each time I make it. It’s been baked by so many of you with simple substitutes, olive oil instead of ghee, jaggery instead of sugar, into cupcakes and even a sheet cake. It never disappoints! Impress Mum with this! Recipe **here**

**Mango Cheesecake Ice Cream**. Creamy and refreshing, a simple 5 ingredient mango ice cream that is perfect for Mothers Day! I’ve been making no churn ice creams forever and this is a favourite. There are so many ways to serve this creamy goodness – soft serve in ice cream cups set in the freezer for a couple of hours, popsicles and scoops if you set it overnight (see stories). I daresay it tasted so good as I mixed it together, quite a few spoons disappeared even before it hit the freezer! Recipe **here**

**Eggless Strawberry Swirl Vanilla Cheesecake**. Simple and special, treat Mum to this delicious eggless baked cheesecake! Strawberries and vanilla really shine in here. A quick ‘*everything blended in a bowl cheesecake batter*‘ that slow bakes for just over an hour, the longest wait is the overnight rest. Recipe **here**

**Eggless Baked Lime Curd White Chocolate Pudding**… Light, dreamy, mousse like and bowl scraping good, here’s a baked eggless pudding that’ll have Mum hooked. The pudding is inspired by an earlier baked eggless chocolate pudding, as also inspired by my eggless lime curd trifles. Recipe **here**.

**Blue Matcha Panna Cotta** {no gelatine}. Is it just me, or do desserts taste better when blue? I love these colours, the calming, peaceful blue, a feeling of cool. This blue is therapeutic, makes life better! A beautiful blue take on the classic panna cotta, one with #nogelatine, yet dessert that is creamy and delicious.
This 5 ingredient recipe takes just a few minutes to come together, and the longest wait is for it to set. While nothing can beat the wobble and indulgence of the classic Italian panna cotta, the simple cooked cream set with gelatine, this vegetarian version might not have the quintessential ‘wobble’ but it tastes divine. Recipe **here**

Eggless **Chocolate Orange Biscuit Cake** {No bake}… the simplest biscuit cake you’ll ever make! It’s a version of a recipe an aunt used to make years ago, back when cocoa powder was the only way to a chocolate cake.
I added fresh orange zest to flavour the biscuit cake, then topped it with a simple ganache. I spiked the ganache with some Cointreau. You can totally skip that if you like, though it does add beautiful notes overall, makes it special. This is as simple as a one bowl, no bake cake gets. With 6 staple pantry ingredients, make it for her! Recipe **here**

And one last dessert idea, a no churn **Blue Matcha Ice Cream.** Satiny smooth and *sooooo* delicious, it’s an easy ice cream that feels like you’re walking on clouds. It’s heavenly good and very calming too! Recipe here.

Happy Mother’s Day ?

‘Passionate About Baking – Chocolate’, my first cookbook #penguinindia

I wrote a cookbook, my first dessert cookbook with @penguinindia, and of course it’s CHOCOLATE! Thank you so much for all your support, for all the preorders, and for sharing posts and stories of my precious book as you receive the preorders. Publication Day was finally here and it was a moment of joy, relief, nervousness – pretty much all mixed up emotions! Here it is, my chocolate dessert cookbook!

Thank you Penguin India for reaching out to me to write the cookbook, something that I have procrastinated doing for long. I am also eternally grateful to the very sweet and extremely talented Marryam Reshii for having largeheartedly agreeing to do a foreword for my first baby book. I feel so fortunate…

Nothing ever prepares you for how difficult writing a cookbook can be, especially if you are doing everything from the recipes, to styling and shooting images, then edit, edit, edit. It’s a wholly consuming process, and yay, it’s finally here.

For those who know me, know that I absolutely love working with chocolate. With infinite possibilities and my love for baking sweet stuff, there was little doubt that my first cookbook would be a dessert cookbook! I also knew that I would style and shoot all the recipes. It’s just something I enjoy so much…

However the credit of the idea of a chocolate based cookbook goes to my dear friend Bina who blogs at A Bit Wholesomely. The idea was born on a car ride in Hyderabad a few of years ago when she was visiting India. We have a lot in common, other than food blogs of course. We both love collecting props, taking pictures, exploring old cities, Old Delhi in particular. The pictures above and below from Khari Baoli were from one such trip into Old Delhi with Bina.

Thank you for pushing me to do this Bina!

The cookbook, my little labour of love, has over 100 of my favourite recipes, 75% of which are eggless. Most of the recipes are simple, fun stuff that use pantry staples that have easy substitutes. As always, I like to work with seasons, use locally available ingredients and produce as much as possible, and I bake from scratch. The chapters are easy from tea breads, special occasion cakes, tarts, cookies & biscotti, panna cotta, puddings & trifles, basic to bottle amongst others. Call it a simple baking class!

Oh yes, every recipe has an image that I styled and shot, including the cover, something that I really enjoyed doing though it was back breaking at times, nerve wracking at others. The design and layout credit goes to my daughter who wanted the best for her mothers book. The images were each carefully picked by my son who has the finest eye for detail and knows instantly whether an image is ‘instagram worthy‘ or not.

I do hope you get a chance to order/buy my book and that you enjoy it. I’d love to hear from you.

The book is available in book stores and online

Amazon India – https://amzn.to/3z5kYmo
Flipkart – https://bit.ly/30avPio
Listed on preorder on Amazon.com/Amazon.com.au/Amazon.ae/Amazon.co.uk/Amazon.ca

#dessertcookbook #pabcookbook #pabrecipes #chocolate #penguinindia

Strawberry Red Wine Jelly with orange whipped cream

“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”
Albert Einstein

Red Wine Strawberry Jelly with orange whipped cream … such a delicious way to end 2016, and ring in the new year! Have a great new year. HNY 2017.

Catch you on the other side. This one’s short & sweet!

Red Wine Strawberry Jelly with orange whipped cream

Light, fun, easy to make, and a visual delight, the Red Wine Strawberry Jelly with orange whipped cream is a great make ahead dessert. Visually exciting and flavours that pop, berries work really well in this recipe!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 10

Total Time 4 15

Servings 6 people