Black Forest Cake

Sonal didi gave me this recipe. Having this cake on diwali night at her place was always a sheer delight.

Maida - 210 gm (2.5 measuring cup)

Drinking Chocolate - 3 tsp

Milkmaid - 1 tin

soft butter - 130 gm

Soda bottle - 200 ml

Baking powder - 1.25 tsp

Soda bicarb - 1 tsp

Apple Malpua

Inspired from Chef Neeta Mehta

1 large apple - Peeled, cored and cut into thin rounds (approx 10 rounds)
2 tbsp maida
2 tbsp atta
1/4 cup and 1-2 tbsp milk
nutmeg powder
cinnamon powder
1/2 cup sugar
Oil for deep frying

Garnish - Nutmeg and Cinnamon powder
                2-3 almonds sliced
                a little chilled rabri for topping.

• Make a thick batter of atta, maida and milk. 
• Heat oil. Dip apple rounds in batter and fry on high flame to crisp golden brown color.
• Make Sugar syrup by boiling 1/2 cup sugar with slightly less than 1/2 cup water. After sugar dissolves, keep on low flame for 2-3 min only. Remove syrup fron heat. Dont make syrup very thick.
• Dip fried apple rounds in sugar syrup one by one. Leave in the syrup for a few seconds. Place in a serving plate.
• To serve, top malpuas with some chilled rabdi or serve warm malpuas sprinkled with nutmeg or cinnamon powder, along with cold rabri or ice-cream served seperately.
• Garnish with blanched almonds.

Cake sponge (using curd)

Maida : 1 1/2 cup (140 gm)
Curd (thick, fresh, chilled) - 1 cup (150gm)
Powder Sugar 3/4 cup (100 gm)
Refined Oil 1/2 cup (65 gm)
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
Vanilla essence 1 tsp

Biscuit Pudding

Step 1: Vanilla custard
1.25 cup milk + 2 serving spoon sugar. Boil.
Mix 2 serving spoon custard powder in half cup cold milk.
Let it cool.

Step 2 : Strawberry custard.
Procedure same as above.

Step 3: Mix 1.5 tsp coffee powder in a cup of water.

Take a square dish. Spread a layer of parle-g biscuits dipped in the coffee water in the bottom of dish. then create a layer of strawberry custard over it. Again create a layer of parle-g biscuits dipped in the coffee water and the cover it with vanilla custard. Put int in the fridge. Serve Chilled.
Gatnish with Tutty-fruity.

Apple Crumble

Its a french dish inspired from tarla dalal.

Apple (peeled n diced)  1
Powder sugar - 6 tbsp
Cinnamon pd - a pinch\
Maida - 1 cip
Soft butter - 2 tbsp
Milk

Mix everything and bake it for 20-25 min at 175 degree.

Serve it along with custard or vanilla ice-cream.

Dosa batter

Rice 3 times the quantity of Urad dal. Same for Uttapam.

For Idli rice is twice the quantity of Urad dal.

Black and White Khichdi (Urad dal Khichdi) for winters

Rice needs to be twice as much as the quantity of dal.

Water double the quantity of rice+dal.

ghee, salt, red chilli powder.

After a whistle, simmer the flame for 10 min.