Sneha's Recipe: Marble

These stuffed and rolled sweet pancakes, is prepared with coconut, sugar and flour as the main ingredient. These are mainly made East Indian on pancake Tuesday, at must in every household. I made these with three different colors and gave a marble effect to the pancakes. They are soft, luscious and delicious, assure you, that, you can't stop at one.

Ingredients
For The Kesar Filling
1 Big Coconut - grated
1/3 Cup Cashew nuts chopped
¼ Cup Rasins
A pinch of Kesar color
2 - 3 Drops Kesar essence
¼ Teaspoon Cardamoms powder
½ Cup Granulated Sugar or adjust to your taste
1 Teaspoon Ghee
For The Pancake Batter
1½ Cups All Purpose Flour
2 Small Eggs
Water or Milk - as required to make a thin batter
¼ Teaspoon Vanilla essence

Method
For The Kesar Filling

Cook the grated coconut with sugar & color on low heat till the sugar melts. Add raisins, cashew nuts and cardamom powder. Cook till the coconut mixture is semi dry, there shouldn't be much moisture in it.

For The Batter

Beat the egg lightly. Mix the flour, milk or water to a fairly thin pouring consistency.

Divide into 4 portions add the yellow color to one and the green color to the other, third one pink and rest white.
To Make The Pancakes

Take a 6" dia non stick pan. Smear it with oil and wipe it clean. Pour small spoons of different color batter's in the center and swirl the pan so that the batter covers it evenly, any excess batter take is out so that you get a thin pancake.
Cook for a minute or so and then turn it over on a board. (Repeat the process till all the batter is used).

Place 1 - 2 tablespoons of the filling. Fold the sides then roll up the pancake tight or u can even seal edges & roll.

Enjoy!!

My Notes

I have divided the batter into different colors and gradually added a small spoon of each while and swirling the pan.
Labels: Pancake, Stuffed, East Indian, Egg, Coconut, Marble, Sunday Funday, Sweets & Desserts, Festival Sweets

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Sneha's Recipe : Marble Stuffed Coconut Pancakes

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.