Its been a while since I baked with Gayathri's Baking Eggless Group. The August challenge was difficult and September challenge had too many steps. I couldn't get them right, so saving the recipe for later I decided to move on.. In October Meena Thenappan of Chettinad Fiesta challenged us to bake this beautiful Pina Colada Cake.
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According to me, the real deal of the challenge was to make an "eggless sponge cake" and then infuse it with the flavors of Pina Colada. While I have baked many eggless cakes before, I hadn't yet tried a eggless sponge cake, so I took this challenge seriously. Initially I tried tweaking a couple of standard sponge cake recipes but that did not go too well. So finally I had to resort to a tried and tested recipe. I chose this eggless sponge cake recipe from My Diverse Kitchen, adapted the methods slightly and viola... I had a lovely moist eggless sponge cake in hand !
Once the cake was made impregnating it with the flavors of Pina Colada was an easy job. I simply sliced the cake in half, soaked each half in a coconut cream solution, sandwiched a pineapple-coconut layer between them, then slathering the cake generously with Cool Whip whipped cream, I sprinkled coconut powder on top and thats it... my Pina Colada Cake was ready to go... The final product was really delicious. I can easily imagine myself making this cake for special occasions. It is a lovely dessert that is sure to please everyone.
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According to me, the real deal of the challenge was to make an "eggless sponge cake" and then infuse it with the flavors of Pina Colada. While I have baked many eggless cakes before, I hadn't yet tried a eggless sponge cake, so I took this challenge seriously. Initially I tried tweaking a couple of standard sponge cake recipes but that did not go too well. So finally I had to resort to a tried and tested recipe. I chose this eggless sponge cake recipe from My Diverse Kitchen, adapted the methods slightly and viola... I had a lovely moist eggless sponge cake in hand !
Once the cake was made impregnating it with the flavors of Pina Colada was an easy job. I simply sliced the cake in half, soaked each half in a coconut cream solution, sandwiched a pineapple-coconut layer between them, then slathering the cake generously with Cool Whip whipped cream, I sprinkled coconut powder on top and thats it... my Pina Colada Cake was ready to go... The final product was really delicious. I can easily imagine myself making this cake for special occasions. It is a lovely dessert that is sure to please everyone.
