Chocolate cake

Todays receipe is a chocolate cake. I made ganache. Ganache is a chocolate mixture which is used as frosting or as filling.

Ingredients
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Maida or All-purpose flour - 13/4 C
Sugar - 13/4 C
Unsweetened Cocoa pwder - 3/4 C
Vanilla Essence - 2 tsp
Boiling water - 1 C
Milk - 1 C
Oil or Melted buter - 1/2 C
Baking Powder - 11/2 tsp
Baking soda - 11/2 tsp
Sugar - 13/4 C
Salt - 1 tsp
Egg - 1

Method:-
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1. Pre-heat the oven at 350F.
2. Take a cake beater or a Mixer jar. To that add egg, milk, oil and essence. Add one by one and beat them well.
3.Meanwhile in a bowl mix Cocoa powder, Baking powder,Baking soda, Flour, Sugar and salt.Add this to the above in the mixer jar and run for 15 to 20 minutes or until the batter is smooth and all the ingredients are well mixed.
4. Now add  boling water.
5. Take a baking pan. Grease the pan with oil spray.
6. Now pour the batter and bake for 30 to 35 minutes or till the toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.

Ganache
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Cocoa Powder  - 1/2 C
Butter - 1 stick (Melted butter approximately 1 stick)
Milk - 1/3 C
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
 Icing sugar - 1 C

Method:-
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1. To the melted butter add cocoa powder and boil.
2. To this add the remaining ingredients and beat it well.
3. Spread this warm mixture on the baked cake as frosting.

NanKatai/Maida biscuites/Eggless cookies

"One joy scatters a hundred grieves."

Ingredients

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Maida / All purpose flour- 2 cups

Baking powder - 1/2 tsp

Ghee - 1/2 cup

Sugar - 1 cup

Cardamom - 5 to 6 (Crushed into powder)

Method:-
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1. Mix all the above ingredients one by one and make a dough.

2. Preheat the oven at 350F. 

3. Meanwhile, make cookies out of the dough. Once the oven is preheated, set the time for 15 minutes. Place these cookies in the oven and bake. 

Note:-

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Check the cookies in between so that they wont get burn.

Sunniundalu/Moong Dal ladoo

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France

My aunt prepares this ladoos called as moongdal ladoo whenever i demand for any ladoo... I really used to cherish those moments when i used to go to her place only for these ladoos. I used to wonder how good this ladoo is. So i asked my mom how these ladoos are made.. and thought to make these for diwali....

Here it goes..

Ingredients

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Urad dal - 1 cup

Sugar - as required

Ghee - 3/4 cup(melted)

Method:-

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1. Take the urad dal fry in any pan without oil until it becomes little bit brown on medium heat. It approximately takes 20 - 30 minutes.

2. Once they are nicely fried, cool them and make them into fine powder.

3. Once the powder is made, add the sugar.Measure the powder.Now add the sugar to the powder. The powder and sugar ratio is 1:2.Mix the powder and sugar well.Check the powder, if the sweetness is enough for you.

4. Now add the melted ghee to the powder and make ladoos out of it.

Note:-

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Usually my mom likes the powder very fine. So she used to get it done in a mill near our house.She also use powdered sugar in place of a granular one.

Wheat Ladoo

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. - Hugh Downs

This ladoo is so yummy.... My best friend prepared this on Ganesh chathurthi...I was so eager to prepare the ladoo.. i jot down all the details from her... Here it goes....

Ingredients

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Wheat flour - 1 cup

Sugar - as per flour( The measure is explained below.)

Butter - 1/2 cup (melted)

Roasted Cashew nuts - 1 tbsp (These cashewnuts are fried golden brown in ghee)

Roasted Dry grapes - 1 tbsp ( These dry grapes( Kishmis) are fried golden brown in ghee)

Water

Method

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1. Mix wheat flour and water and knead into a soft dough.

2. Make small pedas out of it and press them flat like small puris.

3. Now take a tava and when it is hot apply little butter and place all these above made puris on the tava.

4. Roast these puris till they are golden brown on low heat.

5. Once they turn golden brown. Cool these puris and grind them into fine powder.

6. Now measure this powder. The amount of sugar and the wheat powder should be in 1:1 ratio. You can increase the sugar as per your taste.

7. Now mix sugar and wheat powder well. Add the roasted cashewnuts and the dry grapes to it.

8. Now add melted ghee to it. when it is hot, try to make ladoos.

9. You can store them for 15 days in a air tight container.

Note:- Please read the whole recipe carefully before you are attempting any.