Showing posts with label Festival Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Festival Food. Show all posts

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

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..

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Avalakki Chivada....Dipawali Special snack...

These chivada are my all time favourite.. I tasted these from many people but I always loved to have special chivada prepared by my mom.I tried them in my home more than thrice but never got time to pen down and take picture... So today as Dipawali special I prepared them,try out recipe and let me know how it come out. Enjoy Safe Dipavali with kurkure avalakki chivada...

Prep Time: 20 min
Cook Time: 15 min
Serves for: 4 persons


Ingredients:
2 cup – Avalakki (medium thin poha)
4 tbsp – Ground nuts
4 tbsp – Fried gram
1 tbsp – Coconut pieces
3 tbsp – Oil
1 tbsp – Sesame seeds
1 tsp – Coriander seeds
4-5 – Green Chilly
1 tsp – Termeric Powder
1 tsp – Chilly Powder
Salt - to taste
Fresh Curry leaves
Fresh Coriander leaves


Direction for Preparation:
1. Heat Avalakki in Microwave for about 5 min or until they are crisp, stirring in between to avoid burning. (Get medium thin poha, you can get it from megastores. For crispyness of avalakki my mom used to dry them in sunlight, as modern technology utilization I used microwave for this process…J)
2. Slit the green chillies length wise and keep aside. (Adjust these according to taste)
3. In Kadai, put oil and add ground nuts first and stir continuously.
4. When Ground nuts are started to brown in colour, add fried gram , green chilly, Coconut pieces,coriander seeds,curry leaves.Let them splitter.
5. Add turmeric powder,salt and red chilly powder according to taste.
6. Now add coriander seeds,sesame seeds and stir well.
7. Switch off the gas and let it cool the mixture completely (to maintain crispiness of avalakki)
8. After cooling completely add fresh and finely chopped coriander.
9. Add crispy avalakki and stir well. Store in air tight container, can store more than 15 days.
10. Serve them with cup of coffee to you Diwali guests.