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Nutella Filled Crepes#Improv

In: Chocolate, Crepes, Improv Cooking Challenge

This Nutella Crepe is an easy and delicious with a rich chocolate hazelnut spread. Nutella is a rich, smooth, and creamy chocolaty spread, it's so delicious and finger licking.
Makes 7 Crepes - 10" Non Stick Pan
Ingredients
¾ Cup All Purpose Flour
2 Eggs
1 Tablespoon Sugar
½ Cup Milk
¾ Cup + - Water
¼ Teaspoon Vanilla Essence
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
A Pinch Of Salt
For The Filling

Nutella/Chocolate Hazelnut Spread As Required
For Garnishing
Sliced Strawberries
Chocolate Sauce

Method

Add all the ingredients for the crepe in a blender blend till smooth, check the consistency of the batter add water accordingly. Then strain the mixture for a smooth consistency. This will remove any lumps. Rest the batter for a least a 30 minutes to an hour.

After resting, the batter will thicken up, to ensure a thin consistency, whisk in a little water at a time. Heat a 10-inch nonstick pan over medium flame, grease it with desi ghee and wipe it clean with a kitchen paper towel. Simply pour ¼ cup of batter into the bottom of the pan, lift, tilt, and quickly swirl to create a circular shape.

It only takes a minute to set on the stovetop, then lift it with your hand on to lightly greased plate.
Repeat the process with the remaining batter, stack them on top of each other to keep warm.

Spread 2 tablespoons of Nutella over each crepe.

Fold the crepe in half, then in fourths, so it resembles a fan/triangle. Likewise make rest of the crepes.

Then garnish the top with sliced strawberries and a drizzle of chocolate sauce or whipped cream.

Labels: Crepes, Nutella, Strawberry, Chocolate, Improv Cooking Challenge

For Imrpov Cooking Challenge February 2022- Theme is Crepes & Chocolate

Chocolate Crepe Cone Dessert from Magical Ingredients
Chocolate Crepe Cake Roll from A Day in the Life on the Farm
Nutella Filled Crepes from Sneha's Recipe

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Eggless Mocha Cake#Improv

In: Cakes, Chocolate, Coffee

What's a Mocha Cake? A Mocha Cake is a mix of chocolate and coffee. This is a soft, melt in mouth cake, a best combination of coffee and chocolate in one to relish. Made this cake like a marble cake to have two distinctive layers of mocha and vanilla. Let's go to the ingredients.

Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
2½ Cup All Purpose Flour
1½ Teaspoon Baking powder
1½ Teaspoon Baking soda
¼ Teaspoon Salt
Wet Ingredients
200 Grams Butter
2 Cups Caster Sugar
150 Ml Yogurt - whisked
200Ml Butter Milk
For Mocha Cake Batter
¼ Cup Cocoa powder
¼ Teaspoon Instant Coffee powder
¼ Cup Hot Water
For Vanilla Cake Batter
2 Tablespoons Hot Water
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Essence

Method

Grease and line a pan well, then line and butter the bottom with parchment paper then flour the pan well and dust off the excess flour.
Preheat with both rods on at 180°C for 10-15 minutes.
For The Cake Batter
In a mixing bowl sieve all the dry ingredients & keep aside. .
In another mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar till light and fluffy. Now add the yogurt, buttermilk & beat the mixture is well blended.

Now slowly add the dry ingredients in batches and continue fold the mixture with a spatula till all the dry ingredients are incorporated. Do not over mix.
Divide the batter into two parts
One part should be 1/3rd of the batter. And the other batter should be 2/3rd.
To the 2/3rd of the batter is vanilla cake mix, so add all the ingredients under the Vanilla cake and fold it well into the batter.
Now to the 1/3rd of the batter, which is the mocha batter. In the hot water mix in the cocoa and instant coffee powder till it forms a smooth paste. Add this to the batter and fold it till well incorporated, no white traces of batter should be seen.
Now that the cake batters are ready. Let's get our pan and make the marble effect to the cake. other pans used.

Pour a tablespoon or two of the vanilla cake batter. Then pour a heaped tablespoon chocolate cake batter over it. Then layer with remaining vanilla cake batter. Top it with left over chocolate cake batter.

In the same way cover the pan in same manner will all the batter in used.

Then take a toothpick or knife and just swirl it going zigzag to create some beautiful two tones effect on top.

Place the pan in a preheated oven . Keep the temperature at 180°C for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes reduce the temperature to 160°C and bake it for an hour or till a toothpick inserted it comes out clean.
Remove from oven and let it cool for 30minutes in the pan itself.

Then with the help of kitchen towel turn over the pan onto the cooling rack so that the cake can cool completely.

Enjoy this soft and delicious cake with your tea or coffee!
Labels: Cakes, Marble , Chocolate, Coffee, Mocha, Improv Cooking Challenge

Improv Cooking Challenge: January 2021

Coffee and Chocolate

Chocolate Tiramisu from Pandemonium Noshery
Chocolate Coffee Martini from A Day in the life on the Farm
Espresso Chocolate Cream Buns from Magical Ingredients
Eggless Mocha Cake from Sneha’s Recipe
Chocolate Coffee Bundt Cake from Cookaholic Wife

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Pull Me Up Cake#Foodieextravaganza

In: Birthday cake, Cakes, Chocolate

Pull Me Up Cake is also famously known as a Tsunami cake. The pulling of the sheet and chocolate falling upon the cake in slow motion makes you want to dig into it instantly. The fascination is all about the tickle and tumbles effect of frosting over the cake.

That’s the reason my hubby wanted this cake, he is a chocolate lover. Which chocolate lover wouldn't want to have a pull me up cake for a birthday celebration. This cake made him so happy and it's vegan, used non dairy whipping cream.

Ingredients
For the Cake Batter
1½ Cup All purpose Flour
¼ Cup Dark Cocoa powder
1 Teaspoon Baking powder
1 Teaspoon Baking soda
1 Cup Water - Lightly warm ( or a tablespoon or two more)
½ Cup Vegetable oil
¾ Cup Caster Sugar
½ Teaspoon Vanilla powder
For Moistening The Cake / Simple Syrup
¼ Cup Sugar 2 Tablespoon Water
For The Cream Filling
¾ Cup Whipping Cream - whip till stiff peaks
For the Lava/Ganache
250 Grams Dark Chocolate - chop finely
250 Ml Whipping Cream
½ Cup Milk - I have used soy milk
Method
Grease and line the bottom of a 5" tall round cake tin and dust the pan with flour. Keep the pan aside.

Sieve all the dry ingredients. In a bowl add the water oil and sugar, whisk well, till the sugar is melted , then add in the the dry ingredients in batches, alternating with the water , whisking it lightly with a whisk so that no lumps are formed, till all the flour and water is incorporated. The batter should be ribbon consistency. Pour the batter in the prepared cake pan. Bake it in a pre heated oven at 170°C for 30 - 35 minutes or till a skewers comes out clean. Cool the cake overnight.

The next day un mold the cake and remove the parchment paper and cut it into three layers.
For the Simple Syrup

Add the sugar and water in a sauce. Mix it well at low heat. Make a slurry that is not too thick nor too runny. You will need to cook it for at least 4 - 5 minutes or till the sugar is completely melted .

For the Lava/Ganache
Heat cream and milk stirring on medium heat till it starts to scald take off flame, add the chocolate and mix well till it melts. Let it cool it will thicken.

Moisten the first layer of the cake with simple syrup.
Fill a piping bag with whipped cream. Place one layer and drench it with simple syrup then

pipe it on the cake one centimeter away from the edge with whipped cream then place second layer on the top part and again pipe it with whipped cream,

now place the third cake layer and on that do not add cream. Now lift the cake into a deep edge platter.

Tent the cake all round with a acetate sheet / transparent plastic sheet and create a boundary/wall around the cake. Basically, the sheet should cover or enclose the cake properly/tightly. Seal the edges with tape.
Slightly warm the lava and pour over the cake inside the sheet. Do it slowly and gradually.

Pull the sheet up and tada-tada!!! Your pull up cake fantasy/tsunami cake sweetly comes true!!

Dust it with cocoa powder.

Enjoy!!

Labels: Eggless, Healthy, Foodie Extravaganza Party, Cakes, Chocolate, Whipping Cream, Birthday cake, Pull Me Up, Vegan

Foodie Extravaganza Party - January 2022

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Monster Bundt Cake#BundtBakers

In: American, Bundt Bakers, Bundts

A super fun and easy Halloween Monster Bundt Cake! All you need is a few ingredients to make this fun Monster Bundt Cake and most important is candy eyeballs which are homemade! I have used my Homemade Chocolate Cake.

For The Homemade Chocolate Cake Mix
Dry Ingredients
200 Grams All Purpose Flour
20 Grams Corn Flour
400 Grams Caster Sugar
90 Grams Cocoa powder ( Dutch Process)
7 Grams Baking powder
7 Grams Baking soda
3 Grams Salt
Wet Ingredients
3 Small Eggs Or 2 Large
125 ML Vegetable Oil
2 Teaspoons Vanilla Essence
200 ML Warm Coffee
To Make The Butter Milk
225 ML Whole Milk
2 Teaspoons Lemon Juice or White Vinegar
Other Ingredients
For The White Icing /Glaze
3 Cups Icing Sugar
Milk as required
½ Teaspoon Vanilla Essence

Coloring Orange, Purple, Green
For Homemade Candy Eyeballs
White Chocolate
Dark Chocolate
Edible Black Color

Method
For The Homemade Chocolate Cake Mix

Whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.

Store in an airtight container in a cool dry place for up to 3 months or until ready to use.
When Ready To Bake
Preheat oven to 170°C. Prepare two 8-inch round cake pans or a 10 cup Bundt mold.

Whisk butter milk, oil, eggs, coffee and vanilla in a large bowl until well mixed and slightly frothy.
Add the dry mix and whisk until just barely combined and smooth (do not over mix). This is a liquidy batter.

Pour cake batter in a well greased Bundt pan. Bake 60 - 70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean (baking time depends on the pan size).

Allow to cool completely then invert onto a plate.

For The White Icing /Glaze

Make the icing in a large bowl. Divide frosting into three/four bowls and add a different color of food coloring to each.
Add color to the glaze by mixing in a few drops of food coloring.

Place each icing in a piping bag and cut a tiny hole in one of the corners. Drizzle frosting over the cake. Repeat with remaining colors.

For Homemade Candy Eyeballs

Melt the white and dark chocolate as required. Pour this into a small piping. Take a plastic sheet, pipe the white dots, when it cools place a dark chocolate dot on top. Let this cool completely. With a tooth pick make a black dot on top of the dark chocolate.
My suggestion the black dot remains wet even after a day of drying, so mix it with the dark chocolate and then make a black dot. When I was placing the eyes on the cake the black color smudges.

Add eyeballs all over the cake immediately after adding the frosting.

Serve and Enjoy!
Labels: Bundts, Bundt Bakers, Halloween, Chocolate, Homemade, Cake Mix, Candy Eyes, International Cuisine, American

#BundtBakers is a group of Bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake Bundts with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all of our lovely Bundts by following our Pinterest board. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.
Updated links for all of our past events and more information about BundtBakers, can be found on our home page.

Our Host for this month is Wendy from A Day in the Life on the Farm, theme is Halloween Bundts, thank you for hosting this event. Check the recipes our talented bakers have baked.

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Anpanman Rolls#SundayFunday

In: Breads, Chocolate, Japanese

Anpanman is a character bread ” that was inspired by the cartoon character. Kids love such cartoon characters, but let me tell you that I too enjoyed creating this character, it was a fun project.

I thank Sue of Palatable Pastimes for choosing such a fun theme for our Sunday Funday event, wherein, she asked us " Let's create some cute and whimsical kawaii recipes, "Kawaii" means "cute" in Japanese."
Kawaii recipes are perfect for kids.

Ingredient
130 Grams All Purpose Flour
10 Grams Sugar
2 Grams Instant Yeast
20 Grams Softened Butter
2 Grams Salt
80 to 90 Ml Warm Mil
Pink Food coloring
1 Tablespoon Beaten Egg
Black Color or Choco pen
Method

In a large bowl mix in the flour and salt in a bowl. In a jar mix in the milk, sugar and yeast , keep it aside for 5 minutes. Then add in the yeast mixture to the flour and knead to form a smooth dough. Take the dough on to a work surface add the softened butter and knead again for 5 minutes till it smooth and soft dough. Place this in a oiled bowl, cover and let it rise till double in volume.

Deflate the dough and divide the dough into 4 equal parts. Keep the three parts aside covered.

For the remaining one, add the food coloring and knead it well. Divide this into 9 equal parts. Roll them into smooth round ball. Cover with a wet cloth and let rest for 15 minutes.