Baking with Merry

Finally, it happened!!!I successfully baked a brownie without any fuss...*phew*...After two major failures (a hardened brownie and a charred brownie), I never had the courage to bake a brownie. But then, I badly wanted to bake one!! I found this brownie recipe in one of my baking bookings and set out to bake it with my fingers crossed.....And the finished product is what you see in the below pictures....*smiles* Ingredients: Recipe Source: Chocolate by Parragon Books Brownie Mix Unsalted butter - 3/4 cup (plus extra for greasing) Unsweetened cocoa - 3 tbsps Superfine sugar - 1 cup Eggs, beaten - 2 All-purpose flour - 1 cup Cheesecake Mix Ricotta cheese - 1 cup* Superfine sugar - 3 tbsps Egg, beaten - 1 Method: Preheat oven to 180 C/350 F. Grease a cake pan and line with parchment paper. Melt the butter and stir in the unsweetened cocoa and the sugar. Beat in the eggs, then add the flour, and stir to mix evenly. Pour into the prepared pan. For the cheesecake

Women....the world is a better place because of her Mother, Sister, Daughter, Wife or Friend No matter what the role Women add meaning to our existence Women bring love to our life......(Anonymous) Happy Women's Day Celebrating this Women's Day with a Tiramisu Cake Ingredients: Recipe Adapted from: Dorie's Baking From my home to yours & Parita's World For the Cake All purpose flour - 2 cups Dark coffee powder - 1 tbsp Condensed milk - 400 gms (1 tin) Vanilla essence - 1 tsp Unsalted butter - 1/2 cup Baking powder - 2 tsp Baking soda - 1 tsp Plain soda - 1 cup For the Espresso Extract Instant espresso extract - 2tbsps Boiling water - 2 tbsps For the Espresso Syrup Water - 1/2 cup Sugar - 1/3 cup Brandy - 1 tbsp For Filling and Frosting Mascarpone cheese - 2 cup Heavy whipped cream - 1 cup Icing sugar - 1/2 cup Brandy - 1 tbsp Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp Chocolate chips - 1/2 cup Cocoa powder - for dusting

A home with kids should always be prepared to handle their sudden and unexpected hunger pangs. My pantry is always filled with either biscuits (esp Oreo) or cookies or cakes *smiles*...Like all kids, my kids too love anything which has chocolate. So, everytime I find some recipe with chocolate, I give it a try. Ingredients: Recipe Adapted from: Hershey's All purpose flour - 2 cups Cocoa powder - 2/3 cup Baking soda - 3/4 tsp Salt - 1/4 tsp Butter - 1 cup Sugar - 1 cup Eggs - 2 Vanilla essence - 2 tsp Chocolate chips - 1 1/2 cups Method: Heat oven to 350 F. Sieve together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Beat butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla essence in a large bowl until fluffy. Gradually add flour mixture and beat well. Stir in the chocolate chips. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 8-10mins or until set. {In a microwave oven, bake at 600W for 7-8 mins} Cool slightly and remove from cookie sheet to the wire rack. Cool completely.

I had been searching for a chocolate cake recipe for the past few days and found many but none to my requirements!!! Yesterday, by chance I found this extremely easy chocolate cake recipe on Maria’s Menu. Didn’t give any further thoughts…with my apron on, gathered all the required ingredients and bakewares from here and there and I was all set for baking this Ultra Moist Chocolate Cake. The month of March is a month of birthdays in my family. In fact, each week we have some or  the other celebrating their birthdays. So this post is dedicated to my two uncles, to my cousin and to my little niece who are celebrating their birthday in the first week of this month...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Ingredients: Recipe Source: Marias Menu Milk - 1 1/2 cups Butter - 100 gms Oil - 1/4 cup Coco powder - 1/2 cup Self raising flour - 1 cup Egg - 1 beaten at room temperature Baking soda - 1/2 tsp Sugar - 250 gms Method: Preheat oven to 180 C. Heat together milk, butter, oil and coco powder till the bu