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Tuesday 28 January 2014

Blueberries N Walnut Brownie Cookies



Ingredients -

Butter - 1/2 cup softened
Powdered sugar - 2 cups
Unsweetened cooking chocolate - 1 cup coarsely chopped
Eggs - 4 at room temperature
Vanilla essence - 2 tsp 
Walnut pieces - 1/2  cup
Blue berries - 1/4 cup
All purpose flour - 2 cups
Baking powder - 2 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Powdered sugar, for coating


Method -

1. Melt chocolate and butter on a double boiler until its
    melted completely, remove it from the boiler, let it
    cool partially and beat it with a wooden spatula until
    smooth.
2. In another bowl beat sugar and eggs on a high speed
    with an electric mixer for 4-5 minutes until it's light and
    double in volume.
3. Blend the slightly cooled chocolate and vanilla essence
    into it, add  the walnut and blueberries too.
4. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt and mix into 
    the chocolate mix with a wooden spatula, half at a time
    until the dough is all mixed and smooth.
5. Cover it with foil or a cling film and refrigerate it or
    3-4 hours.
6. Heat the oven to 300 degrees. Grease the drip tray 
    and line them with parchment paper. 
7. Put about 1 cup of powdered sugar in a small bowl. 
    Now shape the dough into 1-1/2-inch-thick balls,
    applying little oil on your palms. Generously coat 
    each one with sugar and place it on a baking sheet,
    baking about 4-5 cookies at a time. 
8. Bake for about 10 minutes or until brown on both
    the sides, when done, the cookies will be puffed and 
    will feel very soft to the touch. Do not overbake.
8. Transfer it to a wire rack and let it cool, store it in
    an air tight container.





Tri-layered Dates n Carrot Cake





Ingredients -

All purpose flour- 1 cup
Wholewheat flour - 3/4 cup (little more than half)
Sugar - 1 1/2 cup
Egg - 3
Baking powder - 1 1/3 tsp
Soda bi carb - 1/2 tsp
Dates - cut into pieces 1 cup
Carrot - grated 1/2 cup
Butter - 60 g
Cream ( malai) - 1/2 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Food colour orange - few drops until u get desired colour



Method -

1. Beat malai and butter until it's very light and fluffy.
2. Add sugar gradually and keep beating it continuously
    on full speed from an electric mixer.
3. Add eggs one at a time  beating after each addition.
4. Sift the flours, baking powder, soda and add it
   gradually in the batter alternating with the milk.
5. Mix all well, add vanilla essence.
6. Divide the batter into two unequal parts, take out
    less than half of the batter in another bowl and mix
    the grated carrot in it.
7. Now add food colour and chopped dates in the
    remaining batter and mix it well.
8  Grease and line a baking tray and spread half of
    the orange batter on it evenly,
9. Spread all the carrot mixed batter on it, taking care
    to spread evenly over the orange batter.
10. Finally spread the remaining orange batter over
      both the layers, covering it all.
11. Bake it on a pre - heated oven for 1/2 an hour or
      until baked thoroughly, when inserted with a skewer,
      it should come out clean.
12.  Take it out from the baking dish, let it cool on a wire 
       rack for half an hour, cut it into pieces and serve
       this tasty and healthy cake.