Chocolate Truffle Cake....

Prepared this tasty and delicious cake for my hubby birthday…J. Struggled lot to get it done after my busy working hours. Fulfilled another dream of preparing delicious birthday cake, it tasted delicious even my husband liked it (Happy to see smile on his face, on his DAY..) . I wanted to have post in my blog of the cake on same day, spent almost 3 hours to post this recipe with correct measurements (awake till 2 am). Enjoy this post as I am enjoying the cake…

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 70 min

Serves for: 4 persons

Ingredients: 

1 ½ Cup - All purpose flour

½ Cup - Cocoa powder

1 tsp - Cooking soda

2 tsp - Baking powder

1 tin (400ml) - Sweetened condensed milk (I used Britania )

100 gms -Melted butter

180 ml – Water 

For Sugar Syrup:

½ Cup - Sugar

¼ Cup - Water

For Filling:

3/4  Cup - Chocochips

4 tbsp - Butter

½ Cup - Heavy Whipping Cream

1 tsp – Vanilla Essence 

For Ganache:

½ Cup – Semisweet chocolate

¼ Cup – Heavy whipping Cream

Direction for Preparation:

Cake Baking:

1. Sieve flour, cocoa, baking powder and soda together into the mixing bowl.

2. Take melted butter in bowl, mix condensed milk and water to it. Mix well using whisk.

3. Mix Flour mixture beat well until mixed. The batter should be in pouring consistency.

4. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease the cake tin with butter.

5. Fill the 3/4th of cake pan and bake it for 40-50 mins at 180°C.

6. Check if cooked by inserting a tooth pick at the middle of cake. The cake is done if the toothpick comes out clean.

7. Allow it to cool on a wire rack for about 15 to 20 min.

Sugar Syrup:

1. Put the sugar in a saucepan with the water and dissolve slowly over a low heat.

2. Allow to simmer till it thickens slightly.

3. Strain sugar syrup for impurities.

4. Cool and store in bottle. Use as required.

For Cream Filling:

1. Melt Butter add chocochips, leave them until the chocochips are soft.

2. Mix the chocolate mixture to heavy whipped cream by folding (gently mixing of cream and choco)

3. Now filling is ready for Truffle.

For Ganache:

1. Pour choco chips in large bowl.

2. Heat whipped cream in pan when it starts boiling (It takes hardly 3-4 min), remove from heat and pour on chocochips. Allow them stand for 2 min until chocochips become soft.

3. Stir well the cream and chocochips mixture until you get shiny silky smooth paste.

4. Add vanilla essence for flavour and mix well.

5. Cool in refrigerator, stirring occasionally, until ganache reaches a spreading consistency.

For assembling cake:

1. Cut down cake to layers of required thickness.

2. Take serving plate, place your first cake layer. Add sugar syrup to make cake moist.

3. Apply whipped chco and cream mixture of required quantity.

4. Now place your second layer of cake and follow same procedure until you finish the layers of cake ie cake layer --> Sugar Syrup --> Whipped choco cream -->

5. When all the layers are done, Pour Ganache on the top of cake let it spread naturally to get shiny look.

6. Decorate with Cherry and choco bars.

7. Serve chilled Chocolate Truffle Cake..

Apple Cinnamon Pie..

Till now not able to get my pie dish in bangalore..:( As I am always stuck with work hardly I get some weekends which are free enough,where I can do some trail and error. So yesterday I got it... thought to try my many days wish that is PIE..APPLE PIE...APPLE CINNAMON PIE...But my first worry was not having any pie dish. still managed to do it in my cake baking tray, which turned out very well, Second worry is how my pie crust turn out, trust me pie crust was very crispy and very tasty. Finally I was happy as I tried one of my favorite dish.

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 15 min

Serves for: 4 persons

Another Click...of beautiful mouth watering Pie...

Ingredients

For Filling:

2 – Apple chopped lengthwise

1 tbsp – Butter

2 tbsp – powdered Sugar

½ tsp – Cinnamon powder

For Pie:

1 cup – plain floor

100 gm – frozen Butter

2 tbsp – ice cold water

2 tbsp – butter or vegetable oil (1 egg substitute)

For Garnishing:

1 tsp – Castor Sugar

1 tsp – Chocolate Syrup

Direction for Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven at convention mode at 190C. Sift flour and mix it with Butter. Add cold water and knead into dough.

2. Mix butter, cinnamon powder, apples and powdered sugar and microwave for 3-4 min, keep aside to cool.

3. Roll the dough and cut into two layers of the shape of the pie dish.

4. Now line the dish with 1 layer, stuff it with the prepared apple filling and cover with other layer, press the edges together.

5. Brush the butter on the pie (egg substitute).

6. Bake in preheated oven for 10-15 min, at 190C on convention mode.

7. Sprinkle castor sugar and garnish it with chocolate syrup.

8. Cut into wedges and serve.

Chocolate Trifle...

My week has ended with satisfaction of completing my work on time, enjoying my Friday evening with cup of coffee. As weekend special I am not in mood to prepare any fully fledged dinner like roti, dal, rice tired of eating it…Today I wanted to have something different, while surfing through internet I came across an idea of preparing simple desert… THIS IS THE RESULT OF MY WEEKEND SPECIAL DESSERT…CHOCOLATE TRIFLE…

Ingredients
2 piece – Chocolate cake

3-4 tbsp – Fresh Cream

1 tbsp – Choco Chips

2  -  Choice of butter biscuit(I used Britania Goodday biscuit)

1 tbsp – Chocolate sauce

Direction for Preparation:

1.Take glass(I used wine glass) to arrange triffle.

2. Apply Chocolate sauce to the walls of glass. 

3. Roughly crush the biscuits, and crumble the chocolate cake keep aside.
4. First start with filling 1/4 of glass with crushed biscuits.
5. Next fill the glass with crumbled cake followed by a tbsp of fresh cream.
6. Follow this arrangement of biscuits,cake and cream until you reach end or 3/4 of glass.
7. Finally garnish with some extra cream,choco chips and chocolate sauce.
8. Chill it in freezer to maintain consistency of cream.
9. You can even use ice cream  as one more layer, arrangements and garnishing are left to your own imagination.

Soft -Crunchy Ragi Cookies

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 40 min

Serves for: 2-3 persons (12-14 cookies)

Ingredients: 

1 cup - Ragi flour

1 tbsp - cornflour powder

1 tbsp - All purpose flour (maida)

1 tbsp - cocoa powder

1/2 cup - sugar

1/2 cup – butter

1 tsp – cardamom powder

1 tsp - baking powder

1 tsp - curd

Chocolate chips 

Direction for Preparation:

1. Dry fry the Ragi flour for a few minutes in kadai, untill the raw smell disappear.

2. Take a large vessel and add Ragi flour, cornflour, all purpose flour, baking powder and cardamom powder into it. Mix all the dry ingredients.

3. Heat butter bit say about 30 – 60 seconds or until it starts melting.

4. Take another vessel and add melted butter, sugar and the curd into it. Mix the wet ingredients till the sugar melts.

5. To the above wet mixture add the dry flour mix slowly (1 tbsp at a time).

6. Once done just mix the mixture with hand to avoid if any lumps are left out.

7. Grease the baking tray with butter.

8. Heat oven to 190°C for 10 minutes.

9. Make small balls from the dough in hand by applying butter to your hand

10. Arrange them on the baking tray. Do not flatten the balls too much.

11. Add the chocolate chips on each cookie.

12. Bake the cookies at 190 °C for 12-15 minutes or till done.

13. Remove from oven, let it cool down for about 10 min. Ragi cookies are very soft so handle them with care. They taste wonderful with a cup of hot Coffee.

Choco-Chips Muffins

Trying another version of muffin with choco chips.

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 10 min

Serves for: 2-3 persons

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter (at room temp)

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 cup plain yogurt

1/2 cup Milk

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 cups all purpose flour (maida)

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 cup Choco Chips

1 tsp Chocolate Syrup to decorate

Direction for Preparation: 

1. In a bowl, mix butter and sugar together.

2. Add the vegetable oil and beat it along with the butter mixture.

3. Add yogurt, milk and vanilla and mix well.

4. Combine the flour, soda, baking powder and salt together in another bowl

5. Add it slowly into the creamed butter mixture until moistened.

6.  Add choco chips and mix it gently.

7. Line a muffin pan with paper-lined cups and fill it 2/3rd full with the batter.

8. Sprinkle some of  Choco Chips over the batter.

9. Preheat microwave for 200C about 5 min.

10. Bake them at 200C for 7-8 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.

11. Cool it for few minutes before removing them from the pan.

12. Decorate it with Chocolate syrup.

Tutti Frutti - Muffins

Again got long break from work ( 5 days ), not made any plans to go out of home. As I got new mini muffins tray from my brother, I tried these eggless tutti fruity muffins. It took almost 40 min to prepare but finished all muffins in 15 min...:) Beautiful.

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 10 min

Serves for: 2-3 persons

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter (at room temp)

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 cup plain yogurt

1/2 cup Milk

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 cups all purpose flour (maida)

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 cup Tutti Frutti

Direction for Preparation: 

1. In a bowl, mix butter and sugar together.

2. Add the vegetable oil and beat it along with the butter mixture.

3. Add yogurt, milk and vanilla and mix well.

4. Combine the flour, soda, baking powder and salt together in another bowl

5. Add it slowly into the creamed butter mixture until moistened.

6.  Add Tutti Frutti gently.

7. Line a muffin pan with paper-lined cups and fill it 2/3rd full with the batter.

8. Sprinkle some of Tutti Frutti over the batter.

9. Preheat microwave for 200C about 5 min.

10. Bake them at 200C for 6-7 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.

11. Cool it for few minutes before removing them from the pan.

Chocolate - Cherry Cake

Chocolate cake with cherries awesome combination. This summer my home is filled with two little angels (my brother-in-law’s daughter, Disha and Isha, 8 and 5 yrs old resp), as they wanted to learn making of chocolate cake... I prepared this recipe…OOPS my angels baked this cake with my directions...They are so happy  that almost whole day spent in eating the cake and calling everybody in phone and telling how they prepared and all(even thought they are not so well understood about baking time ,measurements but its ignored in front of their excitement)…J

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 10 min

Serves for: 2-3 persons

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1 and 1/2 cups (225 gms)

Cocoa powder - 3 tbsp

Baking soda – 1/4 tsp

Baking powder - 1/2 tsp

Salt taste

Powder Sugar - 3/4 cup [Adjust according to your taste]

Chopped Cherries - 2 tbsp

Water – 1/2 cup

Curd – 1/2 cup

Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp

Lemon juice - 1 tbsp

Oil - 1/4 cup (60 ml)

Direction for Preparation:

1 Take water in a bowl, add curd, vanilla essence, lemon juice and oil. Mix well and Keep aside.

2. Now take flour, Powder Sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt and coco powder and sieve together.

3. Then slowly add the sieved flour mixture to the wet ingredients mixture.

4. Gently mix in one direction until no lumps are formed, (mixing in one direction will reduce the hair crack on your cake after baking).

5. Now add chopped cherries (you can use chocochips, raisins instead of cherry) and gently mix it.

6. Preheat oven to 200 deg C for 10mins. By the time grease the cake pan with few drops of oil and pour the batter into the cake pan.

7. Bake for about 7-9 min (I am using Onida Conventional microwave and my cake takes almost 7 min at 200 C). Or until toothpick inserted come out clean.

Cheesy Garlic Bread

We both are found off Cheese, so the called “GARLIC BREAD WITH CHEESE”. Whenever we get chance love to have them, never thought the preparation is so simple! I surfed for this recipe and finally found it…:D, and prepared it on the same day its really easy and delicious…J Have it hot with more cheese if you are not bother about fat…J Enjoy Eating…!!

Prep Time: 10 min

Cook Time: 20 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:

4 Dinner Rolls

4-5 Cloves Garlic, minced

200 grams Butter

2tbsp Cheese, grated

1 tsp Dried mixed herbs

½ tsp Sesame seeds (til)

½ tsp Black peppercorns, coarsely

Salt for taste

Aluminium foil

Direction for Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 175°C.

2. Cut the dinner rolls in the middle (as I am not getting here loaf/baguette so I used Dinner rolls for making this), not slicing the dinner roll completely.

3. In bowl melt butter and add minced garlic to the butter.

4. Once butter is melt add salt, dried herbs mix and Black pepper, check for taste.

5. Add this butter and garlic mixture on the gaps of bread roll, spread remaining butter over the bread roll. 4. Sprinkle with grated cheese and some sesame seeds on the bread roll.

5. Wrap the bread in a aluminum foil and seal the ends.

6. Then in the oven and bake for 7-10 minutes.

7. Remove from the oven carefully and serve unwrapped with accompaniments like Cheese dip or orange dip...

8. Garlic bread with soup is best option for dinner..:)

Venilla - Sponge Cake

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 20 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:

Maida - 1 and 1/2 cups (225 gms)

Plain yogurt(Curd) - 1 cup (250 ml)

Granulated Sugar - 3/4 cup (200 gms)

Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Baking powder - 1 and 1/4 tsp

Cooking oil - 1/2 cup (125 ml)

Vanilla essence - 1 and 1/2 tsp

Milk - 1 tbsp (just for brushing the top)

         

Direction for Preparation:

1. Sieve Maida, granulated sugar, baking powder, and baking soda and keep aside.

2. Mix all the above dry ingredients well.

3. Now add slowly all dry ingredients to curd and mix well.

4. Leave aside for 5 mins and you can see the bubbles appearing. Now add vanilla essence, cooking oil and mix well

5. Beat well with a whisk until creamy and thick. Preheat oven to 200 deg C for 10mins.

6. Meanwhile grease a cake tin and pour the batter to the tin and keep it ready.

7. Bake in preheated oven at 200 degree C for 7-8 min, and bake till a fork inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.

8. Just brush the top of the cake with 1 tbsp milk, just 1 mins before the ending time to get a nice polishing glaze.

9. Allow the cake to cool down for 10mins, Then cut/slice them into pieces and enjoy!

Banana Cup Cake

Prep Time: 30 min

Cook Time: 10 min

Serves for: 6 persons

Ingredients:

1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 cup sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

4 tbsp Vegetable oil

6 frozen Bananas (or enough to make 2 cups pureed bananas)

1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Few walnuts for garnish (optional)

Direction For Baking:

1.  For the Cupcakes: Preheat microwave t0 180 -200 degrees for about 5 min. 

2.  Line a standard 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners or use cupcake molds. 

3.  In a bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt  

4.  Thaw the Bananas. I let it sit out for around 20 minutes.

5. Peel the bananas and drop them in your processor. Puree them until smooth. A quick pulse of about 

     4-5 times should do it.

6.  Make a well in center of flour mixture. In well, mix together oil, pureed bananas and vanilla. .

7. Gently fold the dry with the wet ingredients until combined.

8. Dividing evenly, spoon batter into muffin cups. .

9.  Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out clean, 7- 10 minutes.

10.  Remove cupcakes from pan; cool completely.

11. You can use choice of frosting.

Eggless Date Cake

My mom always love to have cake, even she is vegetarian but never thinks of it when it comes to Cakes..:). During my childhood mom use to take cake whenever we come across bakery (we hardley come across such good quality and fresh cake as we are getting today since we used to leave in small town).But always I used to finish the cake first by just giving some pieces to my mom, never she complained about this...:(  Now I grown up and married, when my mom First time visited my home after marriage I thought to prepare CAKE only for her, this what result reciepe. It came out really nice I served this with Vanilla ice cream its awesome..:)

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 25 min

Serves for: 6 persons

Ingredients:

18 seedless dates(Khajoor)

3/4 cup milk

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup all purpose flour/maida 

1/2 cup oil

1 tea spn baking soda

1 tbl spn cashews, walnuts(optional)

Method:
1. Heat milk and dates for few minutes,until dates became soft to grind.
2. Add sugar and grind them to a smooth paste along with the milk. 
3. Add oil to the above mixture and mix well.
4. Sieve together flour and baking soda. Add the flour one table spoon at a time and mix slowly. Add the nuts and mix.
5. Preheat the oven at 280C. Bake the cake in a greased oven proof dish for 20-25min (or till a tooth pick inserted in the cake comes out clean).

Serve the piece of cake with Vanilla ice cream..:), Love this recipe


( the original recipe is from Aayis Recipe.com, I made changes according to my taste)

Choco-Lava-CupCake

It’s month of having High Calories food and fun with dear ones. Where we celebrate Christmas and prepare for welcoming New Year. Chocolate cake is every one favorite, so today I am giving simple recipe of Chocolate lava cupcakes without egg.

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 10 min

Serves for: 2 persons (4 Cup cakes)

Ingredients: (For Cake)

1 cup Maida

¾ cup powdered sugar

3 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tsp Baking powder

1 tsp Baking Soda

¾ cup butter

¾ cup curd

¾ cup milk

1 tsp Vanilla essence

(For Lava)

2-4 tsp choc chips or any chocolate (small pieces)

5-7 cherries / 1tsp sugar syrup

Direction For preparation:

1.        Sieve Maida, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder in a container.

2.        Mix all the above ingredients and keep aside.

3.        Beat butter, curd and sieved sugar together in bowl.

4.        Add vanilla essence to the mixture.

5.        Mix slowly above powder and milk, make sure no lumps are formed.

6.        Preheat oven 170C for 10 min.

7.        For making Lava – Mix choc chips and small pieces of cherries / sugar syrup in bowl.

8.        Fill muffin cups half and than one spoon of lava mix again fill the mixture up to ¾     cup.                                       

9.        Line up the cups in pre heated oven for 5-6 min, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.

10.     After removing from oven let it is cool for 5-8 min.

11.     Delicious, moist and hot choco- lava cake is ready.