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Dates Carrot cake with homemade Pineapple wine

This was the cake I packed back from home for my office buddies. This is a pure vegetarian cake, as many of my friends at office are chronic vegetarians, like they don't even have eggs. So I should be so cautious in picking the ingredients for baking anything for office.   From the name itself you can see this is such a rich cake with dates, raisins, carrots, and yeah my home made pineapple wine. And what replaced the eggs? The mushy bananas and yogurt. So over to recipe now. This is in lot of terms similar to Apple cake , with a little variation for eggless touch. Ingredients Cake layer: Wheat flour - 3 cup All purpose flour - 1/2 cup Baking soda - 1 tsp Baking powder - 3 tsp Cinnamon powder - 2 tsp Ginger powder - 1 tsp Brown sugar - 1 3/4 cup Butter - 1 cup Salt - 1/2 tsp Carrots grated - 5 nos (medium) - 1 1/2 cup Dates chopped - 1 cup Vanilla essence - 2 tsp Bananas -  2 nos Yogurt - 1/2 cup Golden syrup Brown sugar - 1/2 cup Wate...

Homemade Pineapple Wine

It was on my way back from my Business Trip to my homeland I realized that Christmas is almost reaching in a month and what about the wine for my Christmas spread. The grape wine I prepared 2 years back was almost over. So it is time to replenish my wine reserve. This time I wanted a different flavor, as grape wine has become so common and boring. So my mind started roaming around to figure out the best wine I could even make. Finally I have seen pineapples smiling at me in my mind and right away, I took my phone to make the request to my hubby darling to get me 5 pineapples, a new bucket and other accessories. This time I put it in a high quality plastic bucket, as the earthen pot way was a bit messy. I was a little skeptical the entire process, also because I am gonna leave her alone in 2 days here and would be back during Christmas only, when I will get to see how she turned out. But I didn't let my hope go, and went on with that idea. My achan got another respons...