Friday, 21 December 2012

Pineapple Cream Pastry

                                                        Pineapple Cream Pastry

Ingredients for sponge

Eggs 4

Caster sugar 4 ounce

Flour 4 ounce

Baking powder 1 tsp

Vanilla essence 1 tsp

Ingredients for filling

Pineapple tidbits 1 can

Icing sugar 2 ounce

Fresh cream whipped 12 ounces

Pineapple syrup ½ cup

Cherries as required

Method for sponge

Beat 4 eggs and 4 ounce sugar till light and fluffy, add 1 tsp vanilla essence, fold in the sieved 4 ounce flour and 1 tsp baking powder mixture, spread mixture on a well greased 9x9 inches square pan, bake for 25 minutes in a preheated oven of 180 degree C. remove and cool, cut cakes into halves from centre, brush with ½ cup pineapple syrup, spread with 12 ounce whipped cream, top with 1 can pineapple chunks, cover with second half of sponge. Brush with pineapple syrup, top cake with whipped cream, cut into pastries; decorate with swirls of fresh cream, pineapple cubes and cherries, serve chilled.

Kesari Pera

                                                    Kesari Pera

Ingredients

Full cream powder milk 250 gm or 8 ounces

Butter 4 ounces

Evaporated milk 9 ounces

Caster sugar ¾ cup

Flour ½ cup

Green cardamom powder ¾ tsp

Saffron ½ tsp

Yogurt ¾ tbsp

Hot milk 2 tbsp

Method

Mix ½ tsp saffron in 2 tbsp hot milk. Mix 2ounces butter with 9 ounces evaporated milk, ¾ cup sugar, ¾ tsp cardamom powder and ¾ tbsp yogurt, beat slightly with a beater. In a pan melt the reaming 2 ounce of butter, fry ½ cup flour about 2 minutes till light golden in color, then add in the evaporated milk mixture and beat well on low heat, when mixture starts to bubble immediately add 250 gm full cream powder milk and keep stirring. Mix well and reduce heat. Cook till it becomes slightly golden like khoya color. Remove and add in ½ tsp saffron mixed with milk. Cool slightly for 2 minutes, make into round balls. Slightly flattened and press. Sprinkle crushed pistachio on it .

Thursday, 20 December 2012

Chocolate Chip Tarts

                                                                  Chocolate Chip Tarts

Ingredients for Base

Butter 5 ounces

Icing sugar 2 ounce

Flour 8 ounces

Egg yolk 1

Vanilla essence ½ tsp

Ingredients for Filling

Milk 1 ½ cup

Cocoa powder 1 tbsp heaped

Nuttela spread 4 tbsp

Corn flour 2 tbsp heaped

Caster sugar 4 tbsp

White chocolate chips 1 cup

Method for Base

Mix together 8 ounces flour, 2 ounce sugar, 5 ounce butter, 1 egg yolk, ½ tsp vanilla essence and knead with chilled water as required to form into a dough, cover and chill for 10 minutes, roll out the dough and line a 8 inch pie plate, prick base and bake in a pre heated oven on 200 degree for 20 minutes. Remove and cool.

Method for Filling

Mix together 2 tbsp corn flour, 1 tbsp cocoa powder, 4 tbsp sugar with 3 tbsp milk stir in the remaining milk pour into sauce pan and cook gently on low heat stirring until thick. Cool slightly add in 4 tbsp Nuttela spread, fold in 1 cup chocolate chips, mix well and pour onto the baked crust. Scatter 2 tbsp chocolate chips on top. Cool and serve.

Check Cake

                                 Check Cake

Ingredients

Butter 12 ounces

Caster sugar 12 ounces

Flour 12 ounces

Eggs 6 separated

Vanilla essence 2 tsp

Baking powder 3 tsp

Cocoa powder 3 tbsp

Milk 4 tbsp

Ingredients for Icing

Butter 6 ounces

Icing sugar 12 ounces

Crushed nuts or crushed biscuits as required

Method

Beat 12 ounces butter and 12 ounces sugar till light and creamy. Add in 1 egg yolk at a time and continue to beat well, add in 2 tsp essence, beat 6 eggs white stiff, fold in the mixture, sieve together 12 ounces flour and 3 tsp baking powder, fold in the butter and egg mixture, also add in the 4 tbsp milk. Make paste with 3 tbsp cocoa powder, 2 tbsp milk and 2 tsp caster sugar, divide cake batter into two, add dissolved cocoa mixture in one and add few drops of yellow color in other mixture. Grease 3 sandwich tins well. In two tins first arrange yellow batter all around on circle, then coco batter, lastly yellow batter. Arrange the third pan with cocoa batter first then yellow batter then again chocolate, bake in a pre heated oven of 180 degree C for 35 minutes. Remove cake on wire rack. Cool completely.

To Assemble

On a cake plate, put the yellow batter cake first, apply with strawberry jam, sandwich the cocoa cake on it, apply jam on it and sandwich the yellow cake on top. Apply the prepared icing on top and sides of the cake. Decorate the sides with crushed biscuits. Also decorate the top in check design.

Method for Butter Icing

Beat 6 ounces butter, gradually adding 12 ounces icing sugar, beat till creamy, when thick use as required.

Baked German Cheese Cake

                                        Baked German Cheese Cake

Ingredients for Pastry

Butter 50 gm

Flour 100 gm

Sugar 150 gm

Water as required

Salt a pinch

Ingredients for filling

Eggs 2

Almond ground 25 gm

Butter 75 gm

Castor sugar 75 gm

Curd cheese 250 gm

Lemon juice 1 tsp

Lemon rind 1 tsp

Method

In a bowl mix together 50 gm Butter, 100 gm Flour, 150 gm Sugar, a pinch of Salt and knead to dough with Water as required. Roll and put in a greased mold.

Method for filling

Beat together 2 Eggs, 75 gm Butter, 75 gm Castor sugar, 250 gm Curd cheese, 1 tsp Lemon juice and 1 tsp Lemon rind. Fold in 25 gm ground Almond. Lastly bake it in preheated oven of 150 degrees for 30 minutes. German cheese cake is ready to serve.

Sweet Heart Cake

                 Sweet Heart Cake

Ingredients for Sponge

Egg whites 6

Flour 300 gm

Sugar 300 gm

Vanilla essences 1 tsp

Ingredients for Filling

Dairy cream ½ kg

Sugar syrup 1 cup

Castor sugar ½ cup

Red color 2 drops

Cherries to garnish

Method

Beat 6 egg whites one at a time with 300 gm castor sugar till it turn into fluffy mixture. Add 1 tsp vanilla essence and fold in 300 gm flour. Pour this mixture in a greased heart shape mold and bake in a pre heated oven at 200 C for 25 minutes. Now take the sponge out of the oven and leave it to cool. Beat ½ kg dairy cream with ½ cup castor sugar till it thickens and become s fluffy . Add 2 drops of red color and mix well. Cut sponge into two pieces, spread 1 cup sugar syrup on one part, top with other part, spread the cream on top and sides. Now put the remaining cream in a piping bag to decorate the cake. Garnish with cherries and serve.

Coffee Crunch Ice Cream rida

                            Coffee Crunch Ice Cream

Ingredients

Milk ½ liter

Cream ½ liter

Condensed milk 1 tin

Almond 100 gm

Sugar 1-1/2 cup

Custard powder 1 tbsp

Gelatin powder 1 tbsp

Coffee 2 tsp

Cocoa powder 2 tbsp

Method

In a pan boil ½ liter milk, add ½ cup sugar and cook till sugar dissolves. Now add 1 tbsp custard powder dissolved in ½ cup water. Stir till custard thicken, turn the flame off and leave it to cool. Dissolve 1 tbsp gelatin powder in ½ cup lukewarm water. In a bowl put together gelatin mixture, ½ liter cream, 1 tin condensed milk, 2 tbsp cocoa powder, 2 tsp coffee powder and prepared custard mixture, beat well with electric beater. Freeze for ½ hours. In a pan put 1 cup sugar and add 100 gm almond, cook till sugar melts, pour this mixture in a greased tray, leave it to cool till firm, now crush and spread prepared crunch on top of ice cream. Freeze for 1 hour and serve chilled.