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Eggless Cornmeal Muffins

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Ingredients  Maize flour - 1/2 cup (75 grams) Refined flour - 1/2 cup (60 grams) Powdered sugar - 1/2 cup (75 grams) Baking powder - 3/4 tsp Baking soda - less than 1/4 tsp Curd - 1/2 cup Butter - 1/4 cup (60 grams) Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp Tutti fruity - 1/2 cup Method How to make Cornmeal Muffins Take maize flour, refined flour, powdered sugar, baking powder and baking soda in a big bowl. Mix everything really well. Now take curd, butter and vanilla essence in another bowl and whisk. Now add dry ingredients into it and mix really well. Also add tutti-fruity into it and mix. Batter for making muffin is ready. Take muffin molds. Now pour the mixture Preheat oven at 180 degree centigrade and place the muffin tray into it. Set the oven for 25 minutes on 180 degree centigrade. Check after 20 minutes. Muffins have turned golden brown in color. Muffins are now ready. When muffins get bit frigid, separate them out from the tray and place over a plate. ...

How to store your Decorated Cakes

How to Store Your Decorated Cakes : Being in the business of cakes, I get asked only too often … How do I store this cake? Even if I get asked this, I give the advice out upon pickup or delivery, as a fair few people know how to store their cakes for their appropriate icing. And why should they? Customer are not the experts. The cake decorator is. I need to share this with my customers to help them get the best result after exchanging hands. So I thought that I would write up a short article with tid bits of information on how to store your decorated cakes. I’m going to cover buttercream and fondant Cakes,  Fresh whipped Cream Cakes,  as these are the main types of cakes I deal with. Storing Buttercream Cakes Buttercream is a mixture of icing sugar, butter and a touch of vanilla essence. Different colourings and flavourings can be added, but this is essentially the base block of any buttercream recipe. Buttercream ...

Eggless Mawa Cake | Parsi Mawa Cake With Khoya | No Egg, No Milk Powder

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Authentic eggless Mawa cake recipe made with khoya. Soft Parsi Mawa cake without eggs or milk powder. Ready in 40 mins. Step by step recipe with tips. Eggless Mawa Cake | Parsi Mawa Cake With Khoya | No Egg, No Milk Powder Prep Time: 15 mins Bake Time: 25 mins Total Time: 40 mins Yield: 9-10 slices Tin Size: 8-inch square or 9-inch round tin Ingredients: Mawa/Khoya grated - 100 gms Plain flour/Maida - 130 gms - 1 cup Powdered sugar - 140 gms - 3/4 cup Pure ghee or butter - 35 gms - 2.5 tbsp melted Curd/Dahi - 80 gms - 1/3 cup, fresh not sour Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp Baking soda - 3/4 tsp Cardamom powder - 3/4 tsp Milk - 2-3 tbsp optional if batter is thick Method: 1. Prep: Preheat oven to 180C for 10 mins. Grease 8-inch tin and line with parchment. 2. Dry mix: Sieve maida and baking soda together. Keep aside. 3. Wet mix: Beat sugar, grated Mawa/khoya and melted ghee/butter with electric mixer at medium speed till creamy. 4. Add curd: Add curd, vanilla essence and cardamom powder t...

Rolled Fondant

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There is no icing that is easier to smooth on a cake than Rolled Fondant. Its dough-like consistency makes it perfect for hand-shaping flowers, 3-dimensional figures and more. Also great for imprinting designs, cut-out accents on cakes and various borders. Ingredients 1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons      unflavored gelatin/ Agar Agar powder 1/4 cup      cold water 1/2 cup      Glucose 2 tablespoons        solid vegetable shortening 1 tablespoon       Glycerin 8 cups      confectioners' sugar, sifted Icing color as desired flavoring as desired Instructions : Step 1 Combine gelatin and cold water; let stand until thick, about 3 minutes. Place gelatin mixture in top of double boiler and heat and stir until dissolved. Add glucose, mix well. Stir in shortening; just before completely melted remove from heat. Add glycerin, flavoring and color. Cool until lukewar...

Eggless Chocolate Mousse | No Egg, No Gelatine, Agar Mousse | 50 Mins

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Make creamy eggless chocolate mousse at home with agar, no eggs, no gelatine. Rich chocolate dessert ready in 50 mins + chill time. Step by step recipe. Eggless Chocolate Mousse | No Egg, No Gelatine, Agar Mousse | 50 Mins Prep Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 20 mins Chill Time: 2-3 hours Total Time: 3 hours 50 mins Serves: 6 Ingredients: Milk - 2 cups - 500 ml Cocoa powder - 1.5 tbsp - 12 gms Corn flour - 1.25 tbsp - 15 gms Sugar - 4 tbsp - 50 gms Dark chocolate optional - 3-4 tsp chopped - 25 gms Agar agar - 2 tsp - China grass powder or strands Cream - 3/4 cup - 180 ml, heavy/whipping cream Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp Water - 3/4 cup - for agar agar Method: 1. Prep agar: Take 3/4 cup water in pan and sprinkle agar. Keep aside 20-30 mins. If using powder, it dissolves easily. 2. Mix cocoa: Meanwhile dissolve cocoa powder and corn flour in 1/4 cup lukewarm milk. Mix well, no lumps. 3. Boil milk: Boil remaining milk with sugar in another pan. 4. Cook base: Add cocoa-corn flour mixtur...

Royal Icing without Egg White or Meringue Powder

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Royal Icing without Egg Whites or Meringue Powder 1 Cup Confectioners Sugar 2 teaspoons milk 2 teaspoons corn syrup 1/4 teaspoon almond extract Food coloring of your choice Add confectioners sugar to a mixing bowl or to your stand mixer and with a wire whisk start mixing on low. Add the milk, corn syrup and almond extract and whip until smooth. Add more corn syrup if the icing is too thick to use, but be sure to not make it too runny or it will run right off the cookies. It needs to be pretty thick to begin with if you are doing an outline around your cookies. Separate the icing into different bowls for coloring with food coloring. Add to a zip lock bag and cut a tiny hole in the corner of the bag and line your cookies. After lining your cookies with the thicker frosting, add a tiny bit of corn syrup to the frosting and mix well until you’ve made a thinner consistency. Fill the cookies with icing and using a toothpick, spread the frosting to fill in ...

How to make Chocolate Cigars

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To make Chocolate Cigar, spread 1/4 cup of tempered chocolate in a thin layer on a clean granite or marble surface using a palate knife. With a firm grip on the palate knife and employing a steady amount of pressure slowly draw the knife in a straight line down the layer of chocolate. You can use free hand to help form the chocolate into a nice curl. Make 3-4 such surls and keep aside, or as much you want you can.