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I always love healthy bakes so am trying to bake cakes and cookies using whle wheat flour.This was one such try and I used cane sugar for this recipe.Though the cakes were a bit dense as you can see,the flavour and texture was amazing so no complaints.I loved the lemon flavour in the cake and with the lemon syrup drizzle the cake was outstanding.If you like lemon flavour in cakes then am sure you will fall for it as I did.This is the first time I am tasting this flavour in cakes and I so love it. I had bookmarked this recipe long back.And now when I bought my new bundt mould I wanted to try it out.I already own a silicon bundt mould , when I got my new oven got another pan too so that I bake a bigger batch as mittu loves bundts,cupcakes.

I have failed many times using whole wheat flour for cakes during my initial days of baking, but now I can confidently say my whole wheat bakes are liked by all and mittu is so fond  of homemade cakes that she always asks me to keep homemade cakes and cookies for her snackbox .I soo wish I could bake often as I would love to but time is the major factor.

Whole Wheat Lemon Bundt Recipe

Preparation Time:15 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Makes:12 medium sized cookies Recipe Category: Snack | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Whole wheat flour - 3/4 cup Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp Baking powder - 1 tsp Cane Sugar - 1/4 cup Oil - 1/4 cup Milk - 1/2 cup Lemon juice - 1/4 cup Grated lemon rind - 1 tsp

For the lemon drizzle:

Icing Sugar - 1/4 cup Lemon - 1/2

Method:

1. Measure and take milk in a mixing bowl, add oil and cane sugar to it.
2. Whisk it well.Strain to remove impurities,Set aside.Extract lemon juice,measure and keep aside.
3. Using a grater take lemon peels,Set aside.In a mixing bowl take wheat wheat along with baking powder,soda and lemon zest.
4. Whisk well then add oil milk mixture.
5. Mix well using a whisk.Add lemon juice,mix once.
6. The batter should be thickish. Grease the bundt tin with oil using a pastry brush.NOw spoon the batter.While you prepare this,preheat oven at 180 deg C for 10mins.
7. Fill it till 3/4th of each hole.Bake in preheated oven for 15-18mins or till the top turns golden.
8. Cool down for few mins then carefully lift the cake using a fork.Let it to cool down.In a small mixing bowl take icing sugar,
9. Ass lemon juice to it,mix well until it forms a thick syrup.Drizzle over the cake.

Cool down and then store .Serve warm with a glass of milk or as a tea time snack.

My Notes:

• You can add full maida or use half and half of maida and wheat flour.
• Do not overbake, the cake will become hard.
• You can bake these in cup cake moulds too if you don't have bundt mould.
• The baking timing depends on the size of the cake,mine is very small so got baked in 15mins itself.
• I drizzled the syrup only for few cakes as amma wanted to have it plain.But I loved it with the syrup,the tangy taste went well with the cakes.
• You can replace cane sugar with powdered white sugar too same measure.

Written by: SHARMILEE J