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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Nan khatai cookie
















Hi friends this is nan khatai a very popular in India, a very soft cookie just melts in ur mouth as u bite it and very good flavor of cardamom just little variation in cookie dough and u make out complete different cookie isn't it amazing :D. Lets come to recipe now

Ingredients
  • 1 cup Butter or ghee
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 tbsp curd
  • 1 tsp powdered cardamom
  • 1 tsp baking powder

Procedure
  • Mix ghee and powdered sugar until it becomes fluffy.
  • Add cardamom powder and baking powder to flour.
  • add dry mixture to wet mixture and mix well.
  • At the end add curd to it and dough will become pile able.
  • Make small round balls , press them little and align in baking tray.
  • bake in pre heated oven at 170 in convection and 190 in non convectional oven.
  • Take out and put on cooling rack.
Now serve to ur friend and they will b amazed that its home made :)

Friday, August 19, 2011

Chocolate chip cookies















Hi, i was looking for good recipe to work on, but i tried many recipes to make these yummy chocolate chip cookies but i had to adjust it according my Convection oven.

Making cookies looks easy but its not easy ingredients proportion and oven temperature and time is very important, once u learn it, u can make any cookies with lot of variation, so i will give u simple way to remember the recipe proportion :)

Ingredients
  • 100gm Butter at room temperature
  • 100gm Powdered Sugar
  • 150 gram all purpose flour
  • 1tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp cocoa powder
  • 50 gram chocolate chip
  • half tsp vanilla essence
  • 2-3 tsp milk
Now watch proportion 1:1:1.5 thats basic proportion 1 is butter 1 is sugar and 1.5 is flour just stick to this and make any quantity cookies will always b chewy :)

Procedure
  • Mix butter and sugar well until it becomes light and fluffy.
  • Add vanilla essence into and mix well.
  • In other bowl sift flour, baking powder and cocoa powder.
  • Add the dry mix to butter and sugar mix, mix well until its mixed well.
  • Add chocolate chips at the end.
  • Now dough will not b pile able , so add milk 1 tsp at a time until it becomes wet and sticky.
  • Pre-heat oven at 170 and put these dough in small round flat balls for 170 for convection for 15 minutes and for non convection 190 for 20 minutes, after its cookies these small flat balls will become complete flat and at least 50% bigger in size so leave enough space when u align on baking tray :)
  • Eat them and let me know how they turned out to b :P

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Black forest pastry
















Hi friends again today is friendship day what can b better than pastry or a cake to celebrate it :)
I woke up in morning and i got many messages for friendship , so i thought lets give my friends a good sweet treat so i made this black forest pastry and it came out soooo gooood , lets see what made it so good :)

Ingredients
  • 4 eggs Separated.
  • 200 gram whipped or whipping cream subject to availability
  • 1 cup Powdered sugar
  • 3/4 cup flour
  • 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 2 tsp vanilla essence one for sponge 1 for cream
  • 1tsp baking powder

Procedure

First separate egg whites and egg yolks.

Add 3/4 cup powdered sugar to egg yolks and whisk well until it become light and fluffy, if u using electronic whisker it will take 5 minutes from hands 15 minutes, add 1 tsp vanilla essence to it and keep it aside.
Clean your whisker completely take no egg yolk should remain on it else it will leave negative effect on whites and it will not become fluffy.
Now whisk egg whites if u have electronic pls use it from hands it will take lot of time at least 25 minutes so u will just end up making some muscle :P.
In one bowl sieve all purpose flour, coca powder and baking powder.

Now mix all ingredients just giving a fold with spatula DO NOT OVER MIX.

once its mixed well just put in 2 greased pan a thin layer we don't want it to b thick coz we will b making layers.

Now put both greased pan in Pre-heated oven at 180 in Convection and 205 in OTG oven, if ur oven is not big enough then u can bake them 1 by 1.
Bake for 15 minutes at 160 in convection and 185 in OTG oven, after 15 minutes check by inserting toothpick if it comes clean take it out if not then bake for 5 minutes more at same temperature.

Now if u have whipping cream put in bowl add vanilla essence and add remaining 1/4th sugar in it and whisk it until it becomes very light and foamy.

Now cut very thin layer of sponge cake coz generally it gets little hard so we don't want that hard crust.

IN a bowl take 2tsp sugar and take half bowl water and mix well until sugar get dissolved.
Put that water on sponge we are doing this to give it juicy taste u can add vanilla essence to it its just optional.

Now apply cream on 1st layer very well and then put 2nd layer and put cream.

Decoration :) its up to u now how u want to decorate it.

Put in refrigerator and let it cool for 2 hour and serve it to ur friends and i m sure they will ask from which bakery u bought this :)

Happy friendship day

Wednesday, August 3, 2011


















Cheese rolls....I know u can do many things from pizza dough but its little different from normal procedure, these are cheese roll puffs actually making puff is not easy as it looks , There are 2 method of making puff sheet we will discuss one at the moment.

Ingredients
  • Pizza dough click here to know how to make one.
  • 5 tbsp butter salted.
  • oregano
  • Spinach
  • Garlic paste
  • Sweet corn
  • Cheddar or Parmesan cheese
  • Black pepper to taste
  • Salt to taste

Procedure

Take big ball palm size dough and put enough all purpose flour on surface and roll it in rectangular shape 3 mm thick at least.

Once dough is stretched enough, take pastry brush apply melted butter on rolled dough, once u applied it everywhere just fold dough in 3 folds.

Flip the dough and roll again in 3mm thick and apply butter again, just keep repeating same for 8-9 times, purpose of doing this is to create layers as many as possible.

After this take spinach and sweet corn and grind and form a chunky paste , just remember we don't need fine paste.

Take out paste in bowl add salt and black pepper and mix well.

When u done 8-9 times just roll it 3mm thick and apply butter, garlic paste, spinach and corn paste, grated cheese and oregano just apply leaving 1 inch space on sides.

Once all ingredients over the dough , start rolling it and roll until u form a pipe like thing.


Put it in freezer for 15 minutes at least.

Take it out after 15 minutes cut it in 1 and half inch size rolls and put it on greased baking tray.

Bake it for 10 minutes at 170 C in Convection oven or 200 or level 4 in OTG oven, and after 10 minute bake on 200 C in convection and 230 or level 5 in OTG.

Once its done serve it hot :)

Garlic Breadticks












Still have pizza dough left?? don't know what to do??? here i give u tip make garlic bread-sticks.... yes...its possible with pizza dough...looking crispy??? brown like we eat in restaurant? wanna make ur own? I know it looks tempting guys its very easy recipe...the reason giving this twisty shape is its crispness only... Ok we will look how to make it

Ingredients
  • Pizza dough click to see how to make it.
  • 4 tbsp butter
  • 1 tsp oregano
  • 1 tsp basil
  • 1 tsp garlic paste


Procedure

Grease pan with butter or oil and put oven on Preheat for 10 minutes at 180 c for 10 minutes.

Roll pizza dough just 3mm thick evenly and in rectangular shape, cut into 1 inch thick slices.

Pick up each slice one by one and twist it and put in baking tray.

Melt 2 tbsp butter , take pastry brush and apply butter on twisties very well it will help in better crisp.

Now put in Convection oven for 10 minutes at 170 c for normal OTG put at 200 for 10 minutes after 10 minutes turn heat to 200 in Convection and 230 in OTG and bake for another 10 minutes.

Ok now take them out and melt remaining 2 tbsp butter and add other ingredient mix well and apply on these twisties coat them completely and serve with cheese dip :)