Baking with Merry

Before I leave for my holidays, here is another ice cream recipe to cherish during the summers!! Ingredients: Recipe Source: Edible Garden Unsweetened cocoa powder - 1/2 cup Sugar - 1/2 cup Firmly packed brown sugar - 1/4 cup Full cream milk - 3/4 cup Full cream - 1 1/2 cups Vanilla essence - 1 1/2 tsp Salt - a pinch Method: Whisk together cocoa and both sugars until they are thoroughly combined. Add milk to this and gently whisk by hand. Then continue whisking manual for 2-3 mins or with an electric beater for 30 secs. Add cream, vanilla and a pinch of salt. Mix again until fully combined. Pour the mixture to a blender and blend on high speed for 2 mins. Transfer to a plastic or glass container and keep in the freezer. After an hour, blend it again in a blender. Repeat this for 2-3 times to remove the water crystals. Then freeze for at least 8 hours. Enjoy and Happy Summer Holidays......  

The summers are here!!! The temperatures are soaring and so are the electricity bills *winks*...... Now, who wouldn't love an ice cream in this hot season!! And, if it's homemade, it would be double deliciousness..... So here is an ice cream recipe for you to enjoy! Well, my first try was a success! So, you can expect more on this space *smiles*..... "Watch out" *winks*.... Ingredients: Recipe Source: Padhus Kitchen Full-fat Milk - 500ml Granulated sugar - 3/4 cup Vanilla essence - 1 tsp Cornflour - 1 tbsp Gelatin/agar agar/china grass - 1 tsp Dairy cream - 1 cup Method: Keep the freezer setting to the maximum. Mix cornflour in 2tbsp of cold milk and keep aside. Soak gelatin in 2tbsp lukewarm water for 5 minutes. Then stir it over a bowl of warm water until it dissolves. Boil the milk until it reduces a little. This helps to prevent ice crystal formation. Add sugar and stir until the sugar dissolves completely. Reduce the fl

It's the season of jackfruit and you get to see lots of them in Kerala now. Last week, when I went home for a day, I brought back some jackfruits as my son loves them...... After everybody had their share, I had little left in the fridge and so decided to bake this Goan cake - Pansache Dhonas, which I had penned down from Raksha's Kitchen some months back. I would say this cake is definitely a healthy one as it uses no maida, sugar or butter.... The cake tasted quite different from the normal ones and it was indeed yummy! Ingredients: Recipe Source: Raksha's Kitchen Jackfruit pulp - 2 cups Grated coconut - 1 cup Salt - 1/2 tsp Rava - 1 cup Jaggery - 1 cup Cardamom powder - 2 tsps Cashewnuts, chopped - 10 Almonds, chopped - 5-10 Raisins - 10 Method: Roast rava till it is light brown or till the aroma wafts into the air. Keep aside. Let it cool for at least 20 mins. Remove the jackfruit seeds and put them into a mixer and make a pulp out of it.