Chocolate cake

 

#cake #Chocolate_cake #coco_cake #chocolate #eggless_cake #eggless #cakewithcurd

Ingredients: 1.5 cup maida or all purpose flour, ¼ cup coco powder, 1 cup unsalted butter, 1 cup thickened curd, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 cup powdered sugar, ½ tsp baking soda, 4-5 walnuts roasted and crushed

Preparation time: 30 min

Recipe:

1. Mix the dry ingredients except for baking powder and soda. In a mixer pot, add the butter and sugar and grind well. Then add curd and mix well again. Add the dry ingredients in tranches to this and keep mixing to form batter.

2. Add baking powder and soda. Mix it well again. Check the consistency to be free flowing by raising the spoon up in the bowl. If thick, add little milk to improve consistency.

3. Grease a pot and dust it. Put the batter in this and bake it in over for 25 min at 200 degrees. You can also keep it in pressure cooker by removing the whistle and the ring of the lid and placing the pot in the cooker (for 25 min).

4. Check if the cake is baked properly using a toothpick. After inserting in the centre of the cake, if it comes out clean then baking is through; else bake for some more minutes.

5. The cake is ready!

Gajar Halwa Sandesh

Layered sandesh, fudge, desserts

#homemadesweets #milksweets #chhena #sandesh

#gajarkahalwa #dessert #sweets #fudge #layeredcarrot

Ingredients: Cow milk 0.5 ltr, citric acid 1 tsp to make paneer, 1 big carrot/gajar ka halwa, 10- 12 black grapes.

Preparation Time: 10 min (sandesh) + 30 min (gajar ka halwa) + 2 hours for setting

Recipe:

1. Prepare paneer according to the step 1 mentioned in strawberry sandesh recipe. Do not add sugar to this. Just plain paneer well massaged.

2. Prepare gajar ka halwa from one carrot only for this recipe according to the changed proportions per the gajar ka halwa recipe.

3. Take a setting box (shape of your choice), preferably air- tight. Add the chhena/ paneer to this and press it evenly.

4. Add gajar ka halwa to form a layer of equal thickness.

5. Cover with lid and allow to set for 2 hours in refrigerator.

6. Take a platter and turn the box upside down. Tap it gently. If it does not come out, then, turn the box up. Insert a knife along the edge (between the box wall and the chhena/ halwa layer)) to remove pressure (due to freezing). Now again turn it upside down and tap gently. It will easily come out.

7. Decorate it with black grapes and serve it chilled!

Fruit Salad

#custard#fruitscustard#custarddessert

#fruitsalad#easydesserts

Ingredients: vanilla custard prepared of ½ litre milk, 2 bananas, 1 apple, ½ sweet lemon or 1/2 orange, 1 chikoo, ½ cup of dried cranderries (or grapes and pomegranate), 1 tbsp of grated pistachio and almonds with 8 – 10 saffron leaves and a tsp of cardamom powder.

Recipe:

1.       Prepare the custard per the traditional way and allow it to cool down. If there are lumps, then just use a blender to smoothen it. Refrigerate it.

2.       Peel off the bananas and give it two vertical perpendicular slits (like a cross). Now slice it horizontally at every 2mm. Big cuts of bananas doesn’t taste good (not rich, but all the way, fully ripe bananas make the custard yummier).

3.       For other fruits (apple and chikoo), cut them in 3 mm small slices. Do not peel off apple. Its skin contains nutrients.

4.       For the citric fruits, peel them off and take the flesh carefully.

5.       Dried cranberries/ grapes should be cut in halves. 

6.       Mix the fruits and the ½ tbsp of grated pistachio and almond, saffron and cardamom powder with the custard and allow it to chill for an hour.

7.       Garnish it with remaining dry fruits powder. Serve chilled.

Tips: You can add your other favourite fruits as well, besides these essentials. Papaya/ melons are a bad combination with milk. So avoid using those. Even citric fruits, use minimally possible.

Hide N Seek Cake/ Chocolate Cake

Quick cakes, chocolate cake 

 Hide N Seek Cake/ Chocolate Cake

#cake #chocolatecake #fastcakebaking
#microwavecake #easyandfastcake #biscuitcake

Ingredients: 2 Hide N Seek Biscuit packets, 2 regular Eno sachets, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 small tbsp oil, 2 cups of milk, 2 small tbsp sugar, butter/ ghee and flour to grease and dust

Preparation Time: 12 min

Recipe:

1. Crush the biscuits with hand and grind it in mixer pot to powder.

2. Take a vessel, pour the biscuit powder to it, add all the dry ingredients but for milk. Mix all well. Now add milk slowly while continuously stirring, half cup at a time (N.B. Not all milk will be required). Mix it till the batter of the cake has apt consistency. Check it with the spoon your mixing with. If the batter drops down, then the batter is ready.

3. Pour the batter in the baking vessel which is already greased and dusted already.

4. Microwave directly for 4 minutes first. Check. The batter starts baking. If it leaves the vessel, then the cake is done. Else, put it back for a minute or so.

5. The cake is ready. Take it out and after 5 min turn it upside down on a flat sieve or wired ring.

Tips: * add roasted walnuts to the cake while baking, it tastes yum.

*For icing, take 6-7 cubes of dairy milk silk 2 tsp of butter. Mix it and melt it through double boiler and spread it over the cake.

*For vanilla flavour, use Goodday biscuits.

*Serve hot cake with chilled thick custard or vanilla ice cream. A great combo!