One Bowl Chocolate Cup Cake | Easy Cup Cake Recipe

   Chocolate cupcake- a go-to snack recipe. Very easy and airy cake with less calorie.Great for kids lunch box/ snack. Usually, while making the cake I use two bowls, one for mixing the dry ingredients and other for the wet ingredients. But this recipe needs only a bowl so have less work while you clean.Also, no tension in the order of ingredients you add.You can add in the way you want.Only thing is first to mix up dry ingredients then mix wet one by one.No need to follow any procedure.

Chocolate Ice Cream | No Churn Ice Cream

          Ice cream- a frozen treat made with a combination of milk and cream basically .Combined with fruits to give more different flavors.Who doesn't love ice cream? I make ice cream rare so this is my first post on ice cream and its every body's favorite chocolate ice cream.

How To Make Chocolate From Scratch|Homemade Milk Chocolate

What type of chocolate is this?  
     In this post I describe how to make milk chocolate using regular butter and cocoa powder.I used milk powder too to make it a milk chocolate. I used brown sugar so the chocolate tasted and looked like caramel. You can use regular sugar instead. Mine set after two days just when I thought I failed in my attempt to prepare chocolate. I made chocolate tofu pie using the chocolate. Reduce the water that goes in here to make it set early.You can also try grinding the dry milk to fine powder and follow this same procedure. I used carnation non-fat dairy milk powder.
 How to be careful, if it fails how to fix?
  Getting the single thread consistency of the sugar syrup is very important. Make sure you grease the plate for molding completely before adding the chocolate mixture. If you get runny chocolate don't panic make it set in refrigerator for few more hours or days.

Other methods of making chocolates :

     Some people use cocoa butter instead of regular butter for preparing chocolate(Cocoa butter is a butter made with cocoa beans). Chocolate can be prepared by grinding the cocoa beans too. But this seems to be bit long and complicated process.You can use cocoa powder only to prepare regular chocolate.You can also use milkmaid but the chocolate won't hold its shape(just roll them and dip in nuts and set in refrigerator).So my preference is this simple milk chocolate recipe.

How to do variation in this milk chocolate recipe?

• Add chopped nuts like cashews, badam/almonds
• Add cardamom powder.
• Add cinnamon powder.
• Add nutmeg powder.

Chocolate Banana Smoothie|Breakfast Smoothie

What is a smoothie?What is a milkshake ?What is the difference between smoothie and a milkshake?

•     Smoothie is a drink made  without ice cream or even without milk.Basically thick kind .
•     Milkshake is a drink made with milk ,ice cream or both.Milkshakes can be thin with or without fruit.

    I really had a hard time planning the title of this post.But finally i decided to go with smoothie.
     This smoothie i did for cooking secretly challenge started by priya suresh sis .This month my pair is sailaja reddy .She gave two wonderful ingredients ,Cocoa and banana..After hearing the ingredients i decided to do this smoothie ..Because drinks are rare happenings in mykitchenodyssey right ?
    I won't click and post smoothies and drinks which my daughter always demands.The ones i posted are strawnerry milkshake when strawberry is in season, lemon sharbath during summers,peach lassi when i buy peach.
   This is a skinny version ,you can very well add full fat milk and a very large banana and add more cocoa powder to make it more sweeter and thick smoothie.I personally don't like much sweet, so used less cocoa powder and no honey.Adding of peanut butter is optional.But it gives a nice touch to the smoothie.
     This is very filling smoothie.If you are in a hurry for a breakfast but forgot or don't have anything to cook .This smoothie is the best option.

Chocolate Pie|Tofu Chocolate Pie

            Chocolate pie -i actually came across this pie when i failed to make homemade chocolates.When i searched for chocolate recipes ,i found this heavenly chocolate pie recipe. This caught my attention ,because its very easy and very appealing. As usual i substituted with ingredients at hand and made a wonderful dessert.

   Pie is a baked Dish made of a pastry dough casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet and savoury ingredients.This pie don't have a pastry, instead uses crackers as the base and indian cheese,chocolate and tofu puree as the filling.

*****This is not vegan or vegeterain pie it has eggs and indian cheese.

     This chocolate pie is mild sweet without any cream topping.When you eat it after a meal ,its just all you want.If you feel its less sweet you can melt some chocolate and top it.I did this later to please my daughter.  

For substitution :

• I used Marie biscuit for base ,you can use graham crackers or orea instead.
• I used yogurt .you can use cream cheese in  the original recipe as well .
• Use silken tofu.I used firm tofu so the pie has little texture problems.                     
  
  
  

       

Cocoa and Coconut fudge

I saw this recipe in ezcookbook and wanted to make this.The recipe called for milkmaid .I prepared milkmaid at home and will share it in my next post.This fudge uses milkmaid ,cocoa powder,rusk and coconut. Its very rich and I took this to my daughters school thanksgiving potluck. Everybody loved it.

Another wonderful  thing is no baking needed for this.Enjoy and do write me about how you enjoyed it.

Check other sweet recipes Apple halwa,Moongdal Ladoo,Kaju Katli,RockCandy Rice

Preparation time:1 hour( Making milkmaid)+half an hour
Yields:30 small fudge.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup milkmaid (homemade)
• 5 packs drinking cocoa.
• 4 milk rusk.
• 1/2 grated coconut.
• Dash of milk.
• 2 1/2 tsp sugar.
• 2 paper wraps

Method:

• Prepare milkmaid and cool it down.
• Crush the rusk in a blender into a coarse powder.
• Mix the rusk,half of milkmaid,coco powder, 1 1/2 tsp sugar well .
• If the mixture is dry add a dash of milk to make them a firm dough.
• Roll it in a ziplock bag using a rolling pin .
• Mix the remaining milkmaid,coconut,1 tsp sugar well and store it in freezer to set.
• After 15-20 min when it is little stiff roll it a another ziplock bag using a rolling pin.
• Remove the rolled cocoa mixture and coconut mixture and set them on top of one another.
• Place the cocoa mixture on the bottom to get a firm fudge.
• Cover it with a plastic wrap again and keep it the fridge .
• Allow them to set for 10-15 min.
• Cut them and serve them .

• Rigid base with chewy top layer and the richness of milkmaid and the home made satistaction makes the fudge divine.

Cocoa Coconut fudge is ready to be devoured

Note:

• The time I stated is approximate as I was in a hurry to prepare the fudge for the party.
• If the fudge does not set allow it to set again by placing it in the freezer again.
• Store them in freezer, otherwise they might go bad.

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