Hot chocolate Bombs are trending now around the social media. It’s been a big hit among food bloggers. I combined my creation with current season... yes feb is all about oxo hearts ♥️ ❤️♥️❤️and roses 🌹🌹🌹🌹. So made a hot chocolate Bomb in heart shape.
I have embossed retro style rose on the heart shape chocolate bombs. How cute are these...
Ingredients :
Ghirardelli White Chocolate Melting Wafer / White chocolate chips Hot coco mix Marshmallow Gel icing color / Candy color Milk for exploding the chocolate bomb
Equipment needed:
Heart shape silicon mould
Food safe brush to spread the chocolate on the mould and creating retro roses
Procedure :
Melt some white chocolate. Add 1 teaspoon on melted chocolate in a small cup Mix Rose gel color to get light pink. Using a fine tip brush draw curve both side to make rose pattern
Add 1 teaspoon of melted chocolate and make dark pink. Draw curves on top and borders of the light pink curves. Make some green color chocolate. Draw small branches for roses
Melt more white chocolate. Add small chocolate and spread it gently without breaking the roses. Scrap to make the edges even. Add a 2nd coat to make sure no gaps are found.
Once dry remove the chocolate from mould very carefully.
Now spread some white chocolate in the mould - This is the base of bomb. Carefully remove from mould
Heat a pan and press the edge of the chocolate shell to the pan to even out the edge. Fill in hot chocolate mix and top it will marshmallows. Now press the edge of the decorated chocolate shell to the warm pan. When the edge start to melt remove it from the pan and press it to a filled half. Hold it for 2-3 seconds to seal. Run your fingers around the edges to seal well.
These are tiny flavorful bites of idly great as an appetizer, evening snack or for lunch box. For these idly i make the chutneys extremely flavorful as that the idils can be eaten as it is without a dip. Adding of ENO fruit salt is a must because when chutney is added to the batter, the batter itself will loose this natural raising ability. So Eno helps the idlis to raise well and make them very soft and plummy.
Ingredients :
Idly Batter
Coriander Chutney
Red Bell pepper chutney
Eno fruit salt
Procedure :
1. Divide idly batter in 3 bowls
2. Mix coriander chutney to idly batter to get green batter (mix until you get the desired depth of color)
3. Mix red bell pepper chutney to another bowl of batter to get orange batter
4. Mix a pinch of ENO fruit salt to each of the bowl and mix well. (This needs to be added because chutney added to the batter will make the batter loose its natural raising ability)
5. White color idlis can be made with regular batter (no need to add ENO)
6. Pour the 3 color batters in mini idly pan and steam cook for 5-8 mins
7. Once cooled a bit user toothpicks to skewer the idlis
The tortilla wrap hack is a super simple way to make tortilla wraps for breakfast, lunch, dinner or dessert. Instead of rolling all the fillings up, the tortilla is folded into quarters, making triangle shaped wrap.
Ingredients :
Flour Tortillas
Avocado
Shredded cheese
Mayo
Chipotle sauce
Eggs
Milk
Salt and pepper
Procedure :
Prepare egg omelet with salt and pepper
Mash the avocado with salt and pepper
Mix mayo and chipotle sauce t0 make chipotle mayo
1. Lay your tortilla out on a cutting board. Take a knife and make a cut from the middle to end.
2. Imagine the tortilla being divided up into four quadrants or quarters. Place egg omelet , chipotle mayo, anaconda and cheese into each quarter
Rasmalai Cake is a flavorful cake with refreshing cool whipped cream icing. This is one of the best Indian flavored cake i have ever made. This cake has all the flavors of Rasmalai incorporated in every bite.
The main flavors of the cake are saffron, kewra water and cardamom. These 3 flavors are the key for this cake. I made this cake for this new year.
Ingredients :
For Rasmalai:
Milk - 2 cups
Condensed milk - 1 can
Saffron - 1 pinch
Cardamom Powder - 1/2 tsp
Yellow food coloring
Store bought Rasgullas - 1 can
Kewra water - 1/2 tsp
For Stabilized Whipped cream :
Cream cheese - 1/4 cup
Heavy whipping cream - 1 cup
Icing sugar - 1/2 cup
Yellow food coloring
Kewra water - 1/2 tsp
For Fresh Whipped cream icing:
Heavy whipping cream - 1 cup
Icing sugar - 1/2 cup
Yellow food coloring
Kewra water - 1/2 tsp
Procedure :
Step 1 : Prepare Rasmalai with store bought / Ready made Rasmalai
1. Add 2 cups of milk, condensed milk in a sauce pan and mix well.
2. Crush a big pinch of saffron and add 1/2 tsp of cardamom powder and few drops of yellow food coloring mix well.
3. Boil it for just 1 min and add some chopped nuts and cool completely
4. Strain the rasgulla and squeeze the syrup from Rasgulla and add it to a bowl of water and again squeeze the water from Rasgullas
5. Once the milk is cooled add 1/2 tsp of kewra water and add the squeezed rasgullas and mix gently. Keep it cold.
Step 2 : Prepare stabilized whipped cream (this is for icing and decorating the cake)
1. Beat 1/4 cup room temperature cream cheese until smooth
2. Add 1 cup of cold whipping cream and start whipping in low speed
3. Add 1/2 cup of icing sugar in batches and whip well
4. Add few drops of yellow food coloring and 1/2 tsp kewra water and mix well
Step 3 : Prepare whipped cream for filling
Prepare whipped cream filling by following the same steps from stabilized icing and avoiding the cream cheese alone.
Step 4: Bake a sponge cake
Bake a basic sponge cake in 6" round pan and trim the edges and slice it into layers.
Step 5: Assemble and ice the cake
1. Place a layer of cake on the cake board and drizzle some rasmalai milk on the cake and allow it to soak.
2. Spread a layer of whipped cream filling and add some chopped Rasmalai pieces. And top it with next layer of cake
3. Drizzle the rasmalai milk and allow it to soak. Cover the top and sides of the cake with whipped cream filling and next ice the whole cake with stabilized whipped cream
4. Make some rosettes designs
5. Now decorate the cake with rasgullas, nuts, rose buds and saffron
Spritz cookies are light and airy cookies. They are very buttery and melts in the mouth. This generally made using cookie press or pastry piping bag.
I have themed these cookies Christmas by coloring the cookies in red and green and decorated them with colorful sprinkles.
Ingredients :
All purpose flour - 2 1/4 cups
Butter - 1 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Egg yolks - 2
Vanilla - 2tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Gel food coloring
Sprinkles
Equipment:
Cookie press with 3 different disc shape
Procedure :
Add 1 cup butter to a mixing bowl and cream the butter until pale in color
Now add 3/4 cup of sugar mix it until light and creamy
Next add 2 egg yolks and mix well
Next add 2 tsp of vanilla
Sieve 2 1/4 cups of all purpose flour and 1/4 tsp salt
Add flour mixture to wet ingredients in batches and mix until it forms a dough
Divide the dough into 3 half
Add red gel food color in 1 half and green gel food color in another half and mix well. Leave the other half plain
Add the dough to cookie press one color at a time and start pressing cookies on cookie sheet. 1 press = 1 cookie
Decorate cookies with sprinkles
Bake all cookies in 350 degrees oven for 10-12 mins or until the bottom of the cookies turn light golden brown. Cool them completely and remove to cooking rack