Choco Chip Muffins...

Choco Chip Muffins.. Nowadays Muffins are very famous in every Indian families, specially with kids... I prefer to make this kind of food at home only, because we know what ingredients we are adding and it is always a better option. Choco chip muffins are my favorite, i bake them very often and finished it in a 2 to 3days.. They go very well with hot cup of tea for breakfast.

 

 

Ingredient's
1/2+1/6 cups all-purpose flour
1tsp baking powder
1/3 cup milk
1tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup butter
1/3 cup white sugar
1egg, room temperature
1/4 cup choco chips.

 

 

Baking Method
Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 9 cup muffin pans with paper baking cups.
Stir together the flour, baking powder and choco chips in a large bowl, set it aside.
Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Add the egg and blend for another 1minute.
Add the dry ingredients and with the speed on low mix together and slowly add the milk and just mix everything to combine. DO NOT OVERMIX! Make sure you give everything a good stir with a spatula from the bottom to incorporate any bit that wasn't mixed. 

 

Scoop the batter into your lined cupcake tin, make sure it's only filled ¾ of the way up because they will rise. Bake for 20 minutes and let cool for about 45 minutes...

You can them in a air tight container for 2 to 3days.

Bread Pudding!!!

Bread Pudding.. Like every sunday, today also i woke up at 10am and made ginger tea. Then i woke my husband, with the tea and news paper... Before reading main news paper, i always read the Times Life first in Sunday edition. I was just reading and looking all those glossy pictures of beautiful homes. Then suddenly i saw a coloum about Terrance Lewis, Choreographer. It talked about his childhood days and his favorite cuisine etc. During his childhood days his mom use to bake bread pudding on every Sundays lunch, and this is his favorite pudding and he loves to eat every time.

 

 

The picture was looking so appealing and it tempted me to bake it right away... I have never baked a bread pudding before and this recipe was very simple and easy. With no preparation i baked this bread pudding as i had all the ingredients at home and that made my job easy and filled me with lot of joy after seeing the result.. Simple to bake and delicious to eat... Here goes the recipe.

 

 

Serves-3

Preparation Time-5 to 10 minutes

Baking Time-40 minutes

Ingredient's
4 slice of bread
1 cup milk
2 eggs
1/2tsp vanilla essence
1/2tsp cinnamon powder
3tbsp sugar
2tbsp raisins
1tbsp butter.

 

 

 

Baking Method
Pre-heat the oven to 175c.
Slice bread into small pieces (any shape you want) and place them into baking dish (I have used rectangular baking dish). Drizzle melted butter and some raisins over them.
In a medium mixing bowl, combine eggs, milk, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla. Beat until well mixed. Pour over bread, and lightly press down with a fork until the slices are completely covered and soaked in the egg mixture.
Bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly tapped.
Serve Hot or Warm.

Black Forest Cupcake..

Black Forest Cupcake. In my family usually they love to eat black forest cake, but this time to give a twist instead of making cake i made black forest cup cake... Fortunately on the same day i even got a order for black forest cupcake from my hubby's office. Like there is saying in Hindi "Sona Pe Suhaga" happily i made few extra cupcakes for my family members too, they enjoyed it to the core... This cupcake is filled with cherry's, chocolate and topped with fresh vanilla cream.. this combination is made in heaven, i just love it :)
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Baking time: 20 minutes
Serving: 8to10 cupcakes.

 

 

Ingredient's
1/2cups all-purpose flour
1/6 cup cocoa powder
1tsp baking powder
1/3 cup milk
1tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup butter
1/3 cup white sugar
1egg, room temperature
1/4 cup ruffly chopped cherry's.

 

 

 

For Frosting

1 cup whipped non dairy fresh cream
1tsp icing sugar
1/2tsp vanilla essence
few cherry's (cut into 2pcs)
1tbsp finely chopped chocolate.

 

 

Baking Method
Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 9 cup muffin pans with paper baking cups.
Stir together the flour, baking powder, coco powder in a large bowl, set it aside.
Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Add the egg and blend for another 1minute.
Add the dry ingredients and with the speed on low mix together and slowly add the milk and just mix everything to combine. DO NOT OVERMIX! Make sure you give everything a good stir with a spatula from the bottom to incorporate any bit that wasn't mixed.

Scoop the batter into your lined cupcake tin, make sure it's only filled ¾ of the way up because they will rise. Bake for 20 minutes and let cool for about 45 minutes before frosting.

 

 

 

Method For Frosting
In a chilled small mixing bowl combine whipping cream, sugar, and vanilla. Beat with chilled beaters of an electric mixer on medium speed until soft peaks form. Add the frosting in a piping bag fitted with a large star tip and pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes. Then place the cherry on top of the cream and sprinkle chopped chocolate on top..
Black Forest Cupcake is ready

 

 

Rainbow Cupcake!!!

Rainbow Cupcake.. My hubby wanted me to bake this rainbow cupcake from so many days and i use to always tell him will bake some other time. I was thinking that making rainbow cupcake is very long process and it will take more time because of that only never baked... Last night we were watching late night movie and didn't sleep till 3am. Then sushil felt very hungry and told me to cook something, but i didn't want to cook anything, after having a very long discussion what to cook, then suddenly i told him lets bake Rainbow Cupcake now. He gave me a smile and told, at this time you want to bake? and my answer was yes!! If not now then it will be never. Some how i made him to help me and stand next to me so that i don't feel scared. Then i finished baking this cupcake at 4:15 am and gave him to eat 1 cupcake and then we slept. In the morning i clicked the pictures.... You know what, early morning cupcake were so tasty and delicious:)

 

 

 

Ingredient's

1/2+1/6 cups all-purpose flour
1tsp baking powder
1/3 cup milk
1tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup butter
1/3 cup white sugar
1egg, room temperature
Edible food color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue)

 

 

For Butter Cream Frosting
1/4cup butter, room temperature
1cup icing sugar
2tsp milk
1tsp heavy cream.

 

 

Baking Method
Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 9 cup muffin pans with paper baking cups.
Stir together the flour, baking powder, in a large bowl, set it aside.
Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Add the egg and blend for another 1minute. Then add the flour mixture and milk, mixing until just incorporated.
Divide the cake batter into five separate bowls. Add a few drops of food coloring into one bowl of batter and stir; add more food coloring, if necessary, to reach the desired shade. Repeat with the remaining colors and bowls of batter.
Using a different spoon for each color batter, spoon a small spoonful of each color into the cupcake liners, until 1/2 to 3/4 full. Do not mix the batter once it is in the cupcake liner. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean, about 15 to 20 minutes.

 

 

Method For Butter Cream Frosting
In a mixing bowl add butter and beat till fluffy and slowly add sugar and beat for 1minute. Then add cream, milk and food color (of your choice). mix together to combine well for 1 to 2 minutes. Add the frosting in a piping bag fitted with a large star tip and pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes.

 

 

Vanilla Vanilla Cupcake!!!!

Vanilla Vanilla Cupcakes. This is my first colorful frosting on vanilla cupcakes, i had never tried food color with my frosting. This time one of my cupcake buyer requested me to make some colorful frosting for cupcakes. Actually i don't like colors for my food, but what to do you have listen to them. After thinking for a very longtime i decided to chose my 2 favorite colors(edible food colours- chemical free) and kept the design very simple, so that they look pretty and colorful too.... I think when you add color they look very pretty and I have fallen in love with these cupcake frosting, from now on i will play with more color...

 

 Ingredient's
1/2+1/6 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup butter
1/3cup sugar
1tsp vanilla essence
1tsp baking powder
1/3 cup milk
1egg.

 

 

 

 For Vanilla Butter Cream
1/4cup butter
1cup icing sugar
2tsp cream
1tsp vanilla essence
pinch of food color of your choice.

 

Baking Method
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line your cupcake tin with liners and set aside.
In a small bowl, mix together the flour, salt, vanilla and baking powder, set aside.
In a mixing bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Add the eggs and cream together until you get a smooth mixture. Add the dry ingredients and with the speed on low mix together and slowly add the milk and just mix everything to combine. DO NOT OVERMIX! Make sure you give everything a good stir with a spatula from the bottom to incorporate any bit that wasn't mixed.
Scoop the batter into your lined cupcake tin, make sure it's only filled ¾ of the way up because they will rise. Bake for 20 minutes and let cool for about 45 minutes before frosting. 

 

To Make Butter Cream
In a mixing bowl add butter and beat till fluffy and slowly add sugar and beat for 1minute. Then add vanilla, cream and food color. mix together to combine well for 1 to 2 minutes. Add the frosting in a piping bag fitted with a large star tip and pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes.

 

 

Valentine's Day Special.. Double Chocolate Muffins!!!

Last Valentine's day my hubby had surprised me with a very beautiful gift, but this time i will surprise him by baking his favorite muffins and buying him a gift, which actually i have still not decided, will finish deciding it by tonight for gift. I wanted to bake something with strawberry for valentines day and chocolate for my birthday which is on 17th feb. Thinking that i went to buy strawberry in the morning and bought only 1pack and they were so beautiful and tempting i couldn't not control myself and i finished it all except 2 strawberry, which i have decorated my chocolate muffins... This is the best gift i can give to my hubby and i'm very excited to see his reaction.. Happy Valentine's Day to all my friends :)

Ingredients 

1 cup all-purpose flour 

6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 

2 teaspoons baking powder 

2 eggs 

1 large banana 

3/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup choco chips 

1 teaspoon vanilla essence 

1tbsp choco chips (for sprinkling on top)

1/2 cup milk 

2/3 cup (150 g) butter (room temperature)

Baking Method 

Preheat oven to 350 deg F (180 deg C). 

Grease muffin tins (paper muffin bake cups are recommended) or 12-15 medium cups. 

In a bowl mix flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and choco chips together and keep it aside 

In a different bowl beat the butter with sugar till fluffy, then add eggs and banana. beat for 1minute. Now add vanilla and milk. beat for another 1 minute. Then fold in the flour mixture and mix it nicely. 

Then pour the mixture into a grease muffin tins and sprinkle choco chips on top. Bake at 180c, or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, about 30 minutes for XL muffins, about 20 minutes for medium size muffins. Make a little cream roses and decorate with strawberry. The Chocolate Muffins may be served hot or at room temperature.

Merry Christmas!!!! Eggless Mini Bundt Cake.

It's Christmas time again. Merry Christmas to all my blogger friends and readers. Do lots of shopping, cooking and enjoy your holidays... I have made this bundt as i had made the pound cake with little bit of change in ingredient's.. And this bundt also had come out very spongy, this year i'm doing lots of baking, there are many more recipes yet to come, u'll all see it very soon :)

Ingredient's

1+1/2cups all purpose flour

1/2cup butter, room temperature

1/2cups sugar

1cup plain yogurt

1/4cup milk

1tsp vanilla extract

1tsp baking powder

1tsp baking soda

4tbsp dried black grapes and raisin.

For the icing

2tbsp icing sugar

1/2tbsp warm water.

Baking Method

Preheat oven at 350F/180C for 10minutes. Grease and flour the mini bundt cake tin.

In a small bowl blend together the, milk, yogurt and vanilla extract.

In another small bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, set aside.

Cream the butter and sugar in a large bowl until it’s light and fluffy. To this mixture, add the liquid ingredients in 3 additions, beating well after each addition.

Now combine the dry ingredients and blend well. Stir in the black grapes.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for about 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. I made 6 mini bundt cake from this batter.

Remove the pan from the oven and let it cool on a wire rack. You will be able to remove the cake from the pan in about 10-15 minutes. Keep the cake on the wire rack and let it cool completely.

After the cake completely cooled pour the icing on it..

Eggless Pound Cake!!! To celebrate Christmas

Pound cake refers to a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. This is the way to make a perfect pound cake, but i have not used egg in my pound cake so i don't call it a perfect pound cake. Many people don't prefer egg in their cakes, it is the same case with my hubby also. What ever i bake i keep in my mind to use very less eggs in it. Last night i was just going through some websites there this recipe caught my eyes and i have changed the many ingredient's, but still the result was awesome. The cake was very soft and good to taste... So friends do try this recipe and let know :)

Ingredient's

1+1/2cups all purpose flour

1/2cup butter, room temperature

1/2cups sugar

1cup plain yogurt

1/4cup milk

1tsp vanilla extract

1tsp baking powder

1tsp baking soda

1/4tsp salt

4tbsp dried black grapes.

Baking Method

Preheat oven at 350F/180C for 10minutes. Grease and flour the mini bread loaf tin.

In a small bowl blend together the, milk, yogurt and vanilla extract.

In another small bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt, set aside.

Cream the butter and sugar in a large bowl until it’s light and fluffy. It will take about 5 minutes. To this mixture, add the liquid ingredients in 3 additions, beating well after each addition.

Now combine the dry ingredients and blend well. Stir in the black grapes.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for about 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. I made 6 mini pound cake from this batter.

Remove the pan from the oven and let it cool on a wire rack. You will be able to remove the cake from the pan in about 10-15 minutes. Keep the cake on the wire rack and let it cool completely.