Lemon Zest Pastry Cake

Description:

Lemon Zest Pastry cake. It came out very soft, juicy, the tangy and zest flavor was the highlight.

Ingredients:

Sugar: 1/2 Cup
Curd(Thick): 1/2 Cup
Butter(Melted): 1/4 Cup(I prefer Amul salted)
Lemon zest: 1 tsp
All purpose flour: 1 Cup
Baking powder: 1 tsp
Baking Soda: 1/2 tsp
Lemon Juice: 2 tbsp
Milk: 1/3 cup
Food Yellow Color: Few drops.

Cream Ingredients:
Whipping Cream: 1 cup
Sugar: 1 tbsp
Lemon essence: Few drops
Food Yellow Color: Few drops.
Make sugar syrup with 2 tbsp sugar, little water, few drops of lemon and keep it aside.

Method of Preparation:

1. First lets make the cream and refrigerator one day before so it will thick in consistency.
2. Mix Whipping cream and 1tsbp sugar and whisk it till soft peaks.
3. Add few drops of color and lemon essence. Mix it with cut and fold method. Put it in the refrigerator.
4. Lets make the cake.
5. Mix sugar, curd, butter, zest and whisk it.
6. In a strainer add all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda.
7. Add it to the butter mixture little by litte in cut and fold method.
8. Add lemon juice, milk, yellow color and mix it in cut and fold method .
9. Grease the pan add the cake mixture.
10. Preheat convention oven for 5mins.
11. Bake them for 35-40 mins 180 degrees in convention mode.
12. Once cake is cooled down. Cut them into layers.
13. To cake layer. Apply sugar syrup. Add the cream. And repeat it.
14. Decorate it to your taste. Refrigerator it for 2 hours at least.
15. Ready…to EAT.

Chocolate Cookies - Eggless

Description:

Double chocolate chip eggless cookies. Generally, it will be made of all-purpose flour or wheat flour. But tried mixing both wheat and all-purpose flour. It came out so good and soft and melting. Give a try.

Ingredients:

Butter: 1 Cup(Amul salted)
Powder Sugar: 1/2 Cup
Powder Brown Sugar: 1/2 Cup
All purpose flour: 1+1/4 Cup
Whole wheat flour: 1 Cup
Coco powder: 1/4 Cup
Baking Soda: 1 tsp
Cornflour: 1 tbsp
Milk: 4 tbsp
Chocolate Chips: Little(Optional)

Method of Preparation:

1. Bring butter to room temperature. Add both sugar powders and mix it thoroughly.
2. In a strainer add all purpose flour, wheat flour, coco powder, baking soda, cornflour.
3. Add it to the butter mixture.
4. Mix it thoroughly by adding milk little by little.
5. If required add extra milk to the mixture it to make it to dough consistency.
6. Rest it in refrigerator for 30mins.
7. Preheat convention oven for 5mins.
8. Make round balls and apply little choco chips and place it on the baking tray. So they will spread automatically when baking.
9. Bake them for 18-20 mins 180 degrees.
10. Ready…to EAT.

Black Forest Pastry - Happy New Year 2014

Description:

Started my New Year 2014 with Black Forest Pastry. Thanks to my friend Ramya for the recipe.

Ingredients:

Maida : 1 cup
Coco Powder : 3 spoons
Blended Sugar : 1 Cup + 5 Spoons
Eggs : 4
Salt : 1/2 Spoon
Milk Cream/Cooking unsalted cooking butter : 50gms
Condensed Milk : 100gms + 1 Spoons
Iceing Sugar: 100gms
Instant Wipped Cream powder: 100gms
Vanilla Essence : 1 1/2 Spoon
Cherries : Few
Bournville Chocolate : 1
For Eggless: 1 spoon baking powder + 1 spoon baking soda

Cake Preparation:

1. Using a mesh filter 1 cup maida, coco powder 3 spoons, 1 cup blended sugar, 1/2 spoon salt in a bowl. So that it mixes evenly.
2. In another bowl add 4 egg content, 100gm condensed milk, 1 spoon vanilla essence. Beat is thoroughly with egg beater for 6 mins atleast.
3. Optional: If eggless along with baking powder add hot water and mix it. So it should come like dosa consistency.
4. Mix the above 2 mixtures and beat it again for 6 more minutes.
5. In a bowl apply oil on all side and sprinkle little of rice floor on all sides.
6. Pour the cake mixture in the bowl. Preheat microwave for 5 mins at 170 degrees.
7. Microwave it for 30mins at 170 degrees. With toothpick check whether cake is baked fully. If not baked microwave it for 5 more minutes.

Cream Preparation:

1. In a bowl add 1 spoon condensed milk, 2 spoons cooking butter or milk cream, and 1/2 spoon vanilla essence. Add iceing sugar.
2. With egg beater...beat it thoroughly for some time and leave it aside. It should not be very liquid. It should be in medium consistency.
3. In little amount of prepared cream add food color. So it can be used for decoration.

Whipped Cream Preparation:

1. To the 100gms whipped cream powder add 90ml of chilled water.
2. With the egg beater whip it for 6-10mins.
3. Re fridge it for 15mins.
4. Whipped cream is ready.

Sugar Syrup:

1. Add 6 spoons of sugar with 3 spoons of water. And stir it till it dissolves completely.

Final Black Forest Preparation:

1. Once the cake comes to room temperature.
2. Slice it horizontally as layers.
3. Place the first layer. Apply sugar syrup on it.
4. Apply cream on it.
5. Add small pieces of the cut cherries.
6. Place the next layer of the cake and repeat all.
7. In the final top layer. After adding the cream. Apply the whipped cream on all the side of the cake.
8. Decorate with cherries. Pour the colored cream in a cover with hole and decorate the cake of your choice.
9. Grate the chocolate and decorate it on cake.
10. Place the cake in the refrigerator for 30mins atleast
11. Cool Black forest pastry is ready.