Friday, September 17, 2010

Yummmyyy.. Egg-less Chocolate Cake!

Yesterday night I baked a REALLY SCRUMPTIOUS cake for the bake sale in school, for the Leh Cloudburst Fund Raiser. I used the colourful sprinkles I saved from the last time I baked cake with Nivan. It was really delicious, only I didn't get to taste it until the bake sale today morning. Cool we actually have Bake Sales, it was fun, but the ice tea somebody made was like YUCK. Anyway, the recipe [I got this from my classmate Asavari as she had baked it for Simran, another classmate of mine's birthday] :


Simple Yet Scrumptious Eggless Chocolate Cake with Fudge Topping
For The Cake:
~1 and 1/3 cup white sugar, powdered
~ 1 cup and 3 tbsp all-purpose flour
~ 1/2 [half a cup] unsweetene
d cocoa powder
~ 1 tsp + 1 pinch of baking powder
~ 3/4th of a teaspoon of salt
~1 teaspoon of baking soda
~ 2/3rd of a cup of milk
~ 1/3rd cup of vegetable oil/ghee/butter
~1 and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
~2/3rd cup of boiling water.

For the frosting:
~Margarine/butter at room temperature ; 3 tablespoons
~Powdered sugar 1 1/2 cups
~Unsweetened cocoa powder 1/4 cup
~Milk, fat free 3-4 tablespoon.
*OR the easiest way out: add a dollop of Nutella on top of the cake! ;-)

Method to prepare:
~Mix all the ingredients for the cake. Grease a cake mould/tin with oil and sprinkle a bit of flour on top of it [so the cake doesn't stick to the mould]. Put in the Microwave oven for about 5 minutes, keep checking the cake. I do not know about Microwaves as some may even be of different sorts.
As for me I just used an LG Microwave. ;-)
Take a toothpick test! : Prick the toothpick in the cake. If it comes out clean, your cake is READY TO BE FROSTED/TOPPED! :D



To Frost:
  1. ~In a medium size bowl add the margarine, powdered sugar and cocoa powder. Start beating with an electric mixer on low speed. At this stage it may seem to be very dry. Don’t panic. Wait until you add the milk.

  1. ~Add milk little by little and continue beating the mixture till you get a nice spreadable consistency.
  1. ~Now transfer the cake to a plate and start frosting it.
  1. ~Cool down in fridge for at least one hour (the texture of the frosting will look better after at least one hour in fridge). :-)

Enjoy. On a personal preference I think Nutella Chocolate Spread is much more better as a topping because I'm not the sort of person who likes very creamy cakes either.

Yachna






Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Perfect Chocolate Sauce


Hey friends,
I was experementing over the last few monts on how to make the perfect chocolate sauce and i finally found it !YAY!. the taste one wants differs from person to person so ill give you the ingredients and you can try the amount of each to put yourself.
Ingredients-
1)
Cocoa
2) Butter or margarine or nutrilite
3) Milk
4) Sugar
Method-
1) Melt the butter and mix all the ingrediants together. The sauce should be liquidy but not like milk or water it should be like whipped cream. Taste it to get your flavour and remember the flavour you are tasting now will not change on cooling.
2) Put it on your cake or ice-cream or personally i like it best with toast... yummy.
3) To store just put it in the fridge.
( not in the freezer )

Sunday, September 5, 2010

"Cookies n Cream" ice-cream

Hi people,


I thought that I have anyway given you the recepie for cookies, why not tell you how to make delicious cookies and cream ice-cream from it?


We may not be able to put up yummy recepies for some time as i have my exams :( and Yachna has gone for a Vacation :(.


Instructions-


1) Take some vanilla ice-cream (mother dairy works well) and let it melt a little.


2) Break the cookies into crumbs and mix it with the ice-cream.


3) Put it into the fridge to freeze overnight in a metal bowl and.................


VOILA !!!


There you have it home made cookies and cream ice-cream enjoy as a dessert or in between meals when you feel hungry ( the best way is to have one spoon at a time <3)

For Decorations-


1)You can put crumbled cookies on top of the ice-cream or even a whole cookie.


2)You can put some choclate sauce on it (recepie later)


3)you can also sreve it with some oreo biscuits.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Vegetarian Double Chocolate Cookies

My first recipe on this blog!!!!

I love chocolate!! I often wonder what would it have been like if the whole world would be made out of chocolate..? Yummmyyyy! :D

Double Choc Cookies
Preperation Time - 15 Min ; Cooking Time - 22 Min ; Makes About - 18 Cookies
Ingredients-
225 gms ( 9 oz ) Plain Flour
225 gms ( 9 oz ) Butter / Margarine / Nutrilite will also do.
165 gms ( 6 oz ) Icing Sugar
75 gms ( 3 oz ) Cornflour
5 Tablespoons Cocoa ( Cadbury works well )
2 Teaspoons Vanilla Essence
Roughly Half a Glass of milk
2 Pinches Salt
Crockery-
1 Big Steel Bowl
A Measureing CupA Beater
A Dish that can go in the oven
A Sieve
2 Plates
Method-1) Sieve the plain flour, cocoa, salt and cornflour together three times. Put this aside.
2) take the bowl and put the sugar inside it. add the melted butter ( you can melt it any way you like ) to it and cream well with the beater.
3) Add the Vanilla Essence and mix well.
4) Add the mixture that you mixed before little by little and cream.
5) Add as much milk is needed to make it a thick liquid which drips off your spoon.
Baking-
Put the mixture in the oven tin and bake at 350F for 20 min.
When it is finished remove and cut it as you like your cookies are ready to serve :D





Helloooo

Hi to all! :]
I'm Nivan, as Yachna told you.I've been made a new moderator/author for this blog, and I will contribute many nice recipes and I hope you all will enjoy making them as much as eating them ( like I do! ) :D

Another Author for this dainty blog!

Hello Friends,
And we're back. With a new author for this blog. Introduce you to Nivan, another recipe writer!
She is a very good friend of mine and interested in recipes too! Sorry for the loooonnnnggg break.
Nivan and my speciality = desserts! ;D

Enjoy another author and more new exciting recipes again.
Yachna