Genoise cake with pineapple bavarian cream

Genoise cake with pineapple bavarian cream.I made this for our wedding anniversary  this year.
This is one of a kind that is so light and moist that i cannot stop with just one piece.This is my daughters
favourite and my husband has requested to make it for this new year too.

Will post the recipie soon...
If somebody wants the recipie urgent,you could always email me

Thomas the Train- Dora & Diego cake

We celebrated our kids birthday together last October.I wanted the cakes to look alike,so i decided to 

decorate both the cakes alike, just changed the charcaters.This is a chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream frosting.

Diego Cake - buttercream transfer technique

This is a three layer chocolate,vanilla cake with buttercream frosting that i made for my sons first birthday.
I made the diego picture using buttercream transfer technique.

Wheat Halwa

Ingredients:
Wheat berries- 2cups
Sugar- 4cups
Cashews- 1/2 cup
Ghee- 11/2cup(150gm-200gm approx)
cardamom- 1tsp
Yellow food colour- a pinch dissloved in milk.

Step 1:
 Clean and soak the wheat berries overnight.

Step 2 :
 After it becomes tender, grind it in a blender adding water. Filter this on the sieve.Squeeze out the milk from the berries and filter the liquid. Repeat the extraction process by blending the wheat berries adding some more water. Discard the ground berries after extracting the milk thoroughly.
                                                                         
Step 3 :
Leave the milk to stand for another 24 hours so that it turns a little sour. The thicker portion of the milk will settle down.If there is too much of thin liquid on the top, slightly tilt the vessel to discard it.

Step 4 :
Make sugar syrup by mixing sugar and a cup of water. Keep stirring in medium flame till you obtain a thick, sticky syrup( one string consistency).

Step 5:
Add the wheat milk and stir it . It will start to turn thick.
Add the food colour and ground cardamom and keep stirring.

Step 6 :
Roast some cashews in ghee till golden brown and add it to the halwa. Boil a cup of water and pour it in the halwa. Keep stirring. Hot water is added to enable more cooking of the halwa by delay the thickening process.Keep stirring.

Step 7:
Melt the ghee and add to the halwa , few tablespoons at a time and keep stirring.The stirring process may take about 45 minutes to an hour. Stir till the halwa absorbs the ghee completely and does not stick to the vessel anymore and becomes a thick mass of ball.

Wheat halwa is ready.Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shrimp Spring Roll

Cloudy or drizziling outside? I get tempted to eat something hot,something fried fresh,something steaming from my mouth as i eat looking through the window , watching the rain.If it is homemade spring roll....what better could i ask.I love spring rolls as much as i love rain.....

Ingredients:

Shrimp (cleaned) : 1 cup

Spring Roll Pastry : 12 sheets

Spring Onion(chopped) : 1/2 cup

Ginger Garlic Paste : 1 teaspoon

Red Bell Pepper : 1/2 cup

Carrot (thinly Sliced) : 1/4 cup

Mushroom (optional) : 1/4 cup

Chilie Paste : 1 Tablespoon

Curry Powder : 1 1/2 teaspoon

Light Soy Sauce : 2 Tablespoon

Shredded Cabagge - 1/2 cup ( to be added while rolling)

Egg -1

Salt - as required

Oil - 4 cups for frying and 2 Tablespoons for the stuffing preparation

Step 1 :For the Stuffing:

Heat 2 Tablespoons oil in a kadai. Add ginger garlic paste and saute it.Then add spring onion,carrot,mushroom,bell pepper .Then add shrimp.Saute it for a few seconds.Then add chillie paste,

curry powder.Saute it until the vegetables are half cooked.Then add soy sauce.

Taste it and then at last add salt if required ( as soy suace itself is salty).Then turn off the stove

Step 2: Take a spring roll sheet.Place the stuffing along with shredded cabbage.Brush the edges with beaten egg and roll as below.

Step 3:

Once rolled,fry it and enjoy.Can be stored in the freezer for later use also.

Challah bread

Ingredients:

700 g bread flour

1 tsp dry yeast

1 tsp salt

1/4 cup honey

2 eggs  (1 for the dough preparation and another to brush on top of the dough before baking)

1/4 cup raisins

5 tbsp lukewarm water

200 ml milk, lukewarm

4 tbsp butter, at room temperature

some flour for dusting

Step 1:
Put the flour into the bowl of the mixer.
Add yeast, salt, honey, water, milk,1 egg  and the butter into the mixer. Mix it on a low speed for 5 minutes.
Then at speed 6,beat the dough for 5 more minutes until the dough comes off the hook.
You may need to remove the dough from the hook, a couple of during the mixing process. Take the dough out of the mixer when it's fully combined into an elastic ball. Knead it for roughly 3 minutes, until it takes on a smooth, shiny appearance. Place it into the oiled bowl and cover it with a towel. Let it rise, for 1 hour until it has doubled in volume.

Step 2:
Sprinkle little flour on a smooth surface and place the risen dough. Using your knuckles, punch it down, to get rid of all the air. Remove it from the bowl, fold the dough for one minute and cover with a cloth. Allow it to rest for a couple of minutes.
Divide the dough into two halves.Take each half and divide them again into 3 and place some raisins in it and form it into three ropes like' as shown below.

Then braid them as shown below. Add some raisins on top too.

Step 3:
Beat  1 egg and brush on top of the braided dough.
Preheat the oven to 350 degree F and bake it for 40 minutes.

Step 4:
Here you go.......a bread so soft and flavourful with a mild sweet taste is a delight by itself.

Badhusha

 Ingredients :
Maida / All Purpose flour - 5 cups
Butter (room temperature) - 1 cup (ie., 2 sticks)
Curd - 2 Tablespoon
Cardamom Powder - 1 teaspoon
Baking Soda - 1 teaspoon

For Syrup:
Sugar - 4 cups
Water - 2 cups

Step 1:
Use butter at room temperature.(If butter is refrigerated,take it and keep it out atleast for 4 hours to bring it
to room temperature). Take butter in a large bowl and beat with hand until it becomes smooth and  watery.
(this process takes about 30-35 minutes)

Step 2:
In a seperate bowl mix maida,cardamom powder and baking soda.

 Step3 :
 Now combine the beaten butter with the maida mixture (add little water if necessary) and knead well until it becomes smooth and shiny.

Step 4:
 Let the dough rest for 10-15 minutes.
In the mean time prepare the sugar syrup by adding 1 cup water to 4 cups sugarand keep the stove in medium.Turn it off when it comes to 1 string consistancy.(this takes about 40 minutes)

Step 5:
Divide the dough into samll balls and shape it as shown below.

Step 6 :
Keet oil in a kadai and fry the shaped badhushas in batches of 3-4.
(Tips :  Once the badhushas are cooked on one side flip them over and prick one or two holes in the badhusha with a toothpick.Thiscooks the badhushas even and also when put in the sugar syrup,the sugar
gets evenly spread in it and gives a great taste.)

Step 7 :
Once fried,immerse the badhushas in the hot syrup.Flip them over and take them out once the next batch
is ready to be put in the syrup.

Yummy badhusha   ready to eat.Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!