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Homemade Condensed Milk Recipe in 10 Minutes | No Preservatives | 3 Ingredients Only

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Tired of store-bought condensed milk full of preservatives? This homemade sweetened condensed milk takes just 10 minutes and 3 ingredients. Thicker, richer, and way more delicious. Perfect for cakes, kheer, tea, coffee, and Eid sweets! Learn how to make sweetened condensed milk at home with just 3 ingredients. No oven, no hours of boiling. Perfect for desserts, tea, coffee & sweets. Ready in 10 mins! Homemade Condensed Milk Ingredients: Milk powder - 1/2 cup - Use Nestle or Amulya for best taste Icing Sugar/Powdered Sugar - 1/4 cup - Sift it for no lumps  Water - 1/4 cup - Hot water works faster Butter - 1.5 tbsp - Unsalted preferred Method:     Prep dry ingredients: Sift milk powder + icing sugar together in a mixer jar to avoid lumps.  Add butter: Add 1.5 tbsp soft butter to the mixer jar with dry ingredients.   Boil water: Boil 1/4 cup water until bubbles appear. Turn off flame.   Blend: Add hot water slowly to mixer while blend...

How to Mix a Cake Pop Ball

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 If you've ever rolled meatballs or snowballs, you’re ready to make cake balls! Our mixture of crumbled cake and creamy icing holds together to create a perfect round shape. Just bake your cake and let the fun begin (it's also a great way to use cake scraps from other cakes you’ve baked for the party). Have 1/2 cup of creamy icing ready, along with a mixing bowl, spatula, measuring cup and baking pan. Steps: step 1 Cut cake made in a 9 x 13 x 2 in. Sheet Pan in half. In large mixing bowl, use hands to crumble the cake half until no large chunks remain. step 2 Add 1/2 cup of creamy icing. step 3 Blend in icing completely with a spatula until it is completely combined and holds together cake crumbs. step 4 Fill measuring spoon following suggested amounts below. You may need to fi ll more than once, depending on desired size. step 5 Roll back and forth in hands until you create a smooth round ball. step 6 Place cake...

Eggless Custard Powder Cake Recipe - Soft Moist Cake Without Egg

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Make soft eggless custard powder cake with maida, no eggs. Moist vanilla cake ready in 45 mins. Perfect teatime snack cake with step-by-step recipe. Eggless Custard Powder Cake | No Egg, Soft Moist Cake | 45 Mins Prep Time: 10 mins Bake Time: 30-35 mins Total Time: 40-45 mins Yield: 8 slices Tin Size: 7-inch round cake tin Ingredients: All-purpose flour/Maida - 1.5 cups - 200 gms Vanilla custard powder - 3/4 cup - 100 gms Baking powder - 1.25 tsp Sugar - 3/4 cup - 165 gms powdered Butter melted - 2 tbsp - 30 gms Milk - 1.5 cups - 375 ml room temperature Vanilla extract - 1/2 tsp optional Method: 1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F. Grease and line 7-inch tin with parchment paper. 2. Wet mix: Whisk milk, melted butter and vanilla extract if using. 3. Add sugar: Add sugar to milk mixture and whisk till dissolves. Use powdered sugar for faster results. 4. Dry mix: In another bowl, sift flour, custard powder and baking powder. 5. Combine: Add dry ingredients to wet in 2-3 batches. Fold gently til...

Transferring Patterns

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Sometimes the cake you choose may include a pattern design which must be decorated on the cake. To do this, you need to transfer the pattern to your iced cake, so you can follow the lines as you decorate. This can be done easily by using Piping Gel. Steps step 1 Tape pattern to flat surface, such as a cake circle or the back of a cookie sheet or counter top. Place Parchment Paper over pattern. step 2 Using Disposable Decorating Bag or parchment bag filled with Piping Gel and tip 1, trace over pattern. step 3 Turn Parchment Paper over and position pattern on iced cake that has crusted. Using a Decorator Brush, gently trace over gel lines. When completed, lift paper. Pattern will be transferred to cake.

Covering Boards with Fondant

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Give your cake a dramatic look by placing it on a base board covered with fondant. Cut cake boards 2 in. larger in diameter than your cake, unless otherwise directed, then roll out fondant about 1 in. larger than board size. Wrap board with foil. Steps step 1 - coat board Lightly coat foil-wrapped board with piping gel to help the fondant stick to the foil. step 2 - roll & drape fondant Roll out fondant to desired size, 1/4 in. thick. Position over board using a rolling pin, draping fondant over edge. step 3 - smooth top & sides Trim excess fondant from edges under bottom of board. Smooth top and sides with Easy-Glide Smoother.

Covering Round Cakes with Rolled Fondant

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How do you cover a cake with fondant that's perfectly smooth, without wrinkles or air bubbles? The flexibility of fondant is your secret weapon. Just follow our instructions for the right ways to knead, roll out and lift the fondant, and you'll find that covering a cake is easy. Steps step 1 Prepare cake by lightly covering with buttercream icing.Fondant amounts to cover cakes step 2 Before rolling out fondant, knead it until it is a workable consistency. If fondant is sticky, knead in a little confectioners' sugar. Lightly dust your smooth work surface or the Roll & Cut Mat and your rolling pin with confectioners' sugar to prevent sticking. Roll out fondant sized to your cake. To keep fondant from sticking, lift and move as you roll. Add more confectioners' sugar if needed. step 3 Gently lift fondant over rolling pin or slip cake circle under fondant to move; position on cake. step 4 Shape fond...

Decorating with Chocolate

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Chocolate garnishes are extensively used in cakes, and also easy to make. Here are a few easy garnishes. Preparation Time: 10 mins Ingredients Dark chocolate slab You Will Need grater knife butter paper toothpick cookie cutter paper piping bag leaves Method  For Grated chocolate:Chill the chocolate and hold it with a piece of folded paper towel to prevent the heat of your hand from melting it. Hold a grater over a large plate or butter paper and grate the chocolate. For Chocolate curls: Bring a thick piece or bar of chocolate to room temperature (chocolate which is too warm will slice and that which is too cold will grate). To make the curls, use a sharp knife or a vegetable peeler firmly along the edge of the chocolate to produce long or short curls. Use a skewer or toothpick to transfer the curls to the dessert or cake you wish to garnish or grate it directly on top of the cake. For Chocolate scrol...