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Wednesday 3 May 2017

Hindi

नमस्ते। आज हम ओरियो आइस-क्रीम बनाना सीखेंगे। 

आजकल ओरियो बिस्किट्स से बनी रेसिपीज बहुत पसंद की जा रही है। ओरियो मिल्कशेकेस, ओरियो कक, ओरियो फ़ज आदि कुछ ऐसी रेसिपीज है जो बहुत  पसंद की जा रही है। इसीलिए आज हम ओरियो की एक बहुत ही मसहूर रेसिपी बनाना सीखेंगे -  ओरियो आइस-क्रीम

सामग्री -

Saturday 11 March 2017

5 INGREDIENTS EVERY BAKER SHOULD HAVE

5 INGREDIENTS EVERY BAKER SHOULD HAVE :





Hello all of you. It's been a long time since a 'Baking Basics' article has been published on the blog. So I thought I should write one now. 

I have already written a detailed article titled HOW TO START BAKING?   for new bakers. It is a detailed description about the procedure one should follow if he/she is going to bake for the first time. Another important article you should have a look at is ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR BAKING. In this article, I have sum up the basic tools and equipments one should have to start baking. I hope you would enjoy reading these articles. 

A baker weather a home baker or a professional baker, should have some particular ingredients all the time with him. These ingredients form the basis of any baked delicacy. Ofcourse, depending upon what you are baking, the ingredients would differ but these are some of the constant  baking  ingredients which are needed no  matter what you bake. 

Now let's have a look at these 5 INGREDIENTS THAT EVERY BAKER SHOULD HAVE :

1) FLOUR - 



Flour is undoubtedly the most important baking ingredient. Anything you have to make weather it is a cake , cupcake or a cookie; flour is needed. Even if you have to make savoury baked delicacies like pizza, buns, breads, etc, you still need  flour. 
 HOW TO USE  FLOUR PROPERLY? 
Always remember friends, whenever you use flour, ALWAYS SEIVE IT. When you seive flour, it  makes it airy. This helps in making spongy cakes and cupcakes. Also when you would seive flour, baking powder or baking soda together, they would mix together nicely. 

If you want to make your baked items healthier,  you can replace flour with wheat flour. 

Thus always have flour if you want to bake. It is the basic ingredient which you would need everyrime you bake. 

2) Sugar - 


Sugar is another important ingredient for baking. Sugar is needed in cakes,  cupcakes, muffins, cookies, biscuits etc. You should use powdered sugar for baking. You can easily get powdered sugar in market. But if you don't get it, no problem. You can make it at home also. Take a blender and fill it with sugar. Grind it till it gets powdered. You can now easily use it for baking. For making tasty frostings for cakes and cupcakes, you need sugar as well. Thus sugar is an important ingredient. 

3) Butter - 



Butter is also required for baking. Butter provides mositure to the baked goods. It makes cakes and cupcakes spoongy and soft. Remember always USE BUTTER THAT IS AT ROOM TEMPERATURE. This is a very important baking tip. 
Now, most of the recipes ask for creaming the butter and sugar till sugar dissolves in butter properly. Bakers usually use hand mixer for mixing butter and sugar  together. If you don't have a hand mixer, you can wisk butter and sugar together using a spatula as well. 

Like but
ter, oil is also an important ingredient as many recipes use oil instead of butter. 

Also for making buttercream frosting, butter is required in a good quantity. Thus always have butter if you are going to bake. 

4)  Eggs - 



Eggs also make cakes and cupcakes spongy. Eggs should also be used at room temperature. If you are vegetarian, then ofcouse you wouldn’t bake cakes using eggs. You can easily substitute eggs with other ingredients like banana, yogurt and oil. Below is a simple chart which shows the substitutes of an egg - 







You can use this chart to replace egg with ingredients like banana, yogurt and oil. In this way, you can easily bake cakes, cupcakes and many other things without eggs. 

5) Baking Soda and Baking Powder - 





Baking Powder and Baking  soda are the leavening agents. They help the batter to rise.  These are very very essential for  baking. Always keep in  mind that your baking powder and baking soda should be fresh. If they are expired,  they won't help your batter in rising. Therefore always use fresh Baking Powder and baking soda. 


Thus these are the 5 INGREDIENTS EVERY BAKER SHOULD HAVE.  

Tuesday 7 March 2017

Peanut Butter Cookies

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES - 


Hello all of you. Cookies are a delight to bake, literally. They are easy  to make. They are a perfect snack to munch at any time of the day. You can carry them, with you,  to your school, college and offices. At home, whenever you are hungry, you can gulp down a few.  (Just keep an eye on the number of cookies you are gulping down as some cookies can make you fat. 😁) 





Peanut Butter Cookies are a beautiful blend of peanut butter, flour, sugar, oil etc. They are soft in texture. This is a must try recipe as you only have to contribute a maximun of 20 minutes. 


Preparation Time - 10 Minutes

Cooking Time - 10 Minutes 

Total Time - 20 Minutes 

Serves -  Makes 8 - 10 Cookies


Ingredients - 


  • 1/2 Cup Peanut Butter
  • 1/4 Cup Flour
  • 1/4 Cup + 2 tablespoons Sugar 
  • 2-4 tablespoon Oil ( Here oil is used just as a binding agent. Thus if your mixture is too dry, add one more tablespoon of oil. On the other hand, if, after 2 tablespoons of oil, your dough gets prepared properly, don't add any more oil.) 

Method - 

  • Preheat the oven to 180 dehree centigrade. 
  • In a bowl, add peanut butter,  flour, sugar (preferably powdered sugar) and oil. 
  • Mix this nicely with a spoon till it forms a nice dough. 


  • Now take a small amount of mixture and roll it into a ball. Flatten it. 
  • Similarly make cookies from the rest of the mixture. 
  • If you want you can make a simple design, on the top of the cookies, using a fork. 
  • Bake these for 8-10 minutes at 180  degree centigrade. 

Saturday 4 March 2017

Nutella Cake Balls

Nutella Cake Balls





Hello everyone.  Many a times, when we bake cake, we are left with cut pieces of cake,  especially if we have to frost the cake, we cut the top layer of the cake and thus have left over pieces of cake. So if you also have any such left over pieces of cake, this recipe is perfect for you. You can actually  make this recipe using any cake. If you have baked any cake, you can use that. Or you can even use market bought cake for this recipe. 



Nutella is another very tasty ingredient. Nutella, in this recipe, helps in binding the cake balls. After making small nutella cake balls, they are covered in a nice dark chocolate sauce. After some time, the chocolate gets cooled down and thus makes a nice coating around the cake balls. I decorated them with a cute edible heart. 

Time taken for making this - 10 minutes. 

Serves -  6-8 cake balls 

Ingredients - 

  • 1 Cup Cake pieces 
  • 1/2 Cup Nutella
  • 1/4 Cup chopped Dark Chocolate 
  • 1 teaspoon butter

Method - 

  • Take your cake and break it (crumble it)  into very samll pieces. 
  • Add nutella and knead this to form a dough type mixture. 
  • Make small balls from this mixture. Keep  these balls in the fridge for half an hour. This will make them a little firm.


  • In the meantime, melt dark chocolate and butter. You can do this in two ways - a)  In a microwave safe bowl, add chopped dark chocolate and butter. Microwave it for around two minutes or till the chocolate and butter melts nicely. Take this out and give it a nice stir. b) Take a saucepan and fill it with water. Heat it. In another bowl, add chocolate and butter. Keep this  second bowl on top of the first bowl. Slowly the chocolate and butter mixture will melt. Stir it continously.
  • Allow the dark chocolate sauce  to cool down.  
  • Now take out the nutella cake balls and one by one dip them in melted dark chocolate. Coat these nutella cake balls nicely with melted chocolate. 
  • Allow these balls to cool down. 
  • Your nutella cake balls are ready! 

NOTE - 

If you don't have dark chocolate, then make the nutella cake balls and just keep them in fridge for half an hour. After this, you can eat them like that only. They'll taste nice like this  also. 








Wednesday 1 March 2017

Cheesy Veg Sandwich

Cheesy Veg Sandwich - 






Hello all of you. Sandwiches are the easiest snack / breakfast. They require very little  preparation time and they also get cooked in a short span of time. They are a good evening snack. They also are a good option for the breakfast. If you want to make it healthier, you can opt for a brown bread or a multigrain bread. 

Sandwich is also a nice starter for a party, especially a tea party. You can make some tasty sandwiches for serving along with nice cups of tea. 

Cheesy Veg Sandwich is my favourite. Again it's easy to make, require only a few ingredients and it gets prepared quickly. For making these sandwiches, you will need mayonese, cheese slices, very finely chopped veggies like capsicum, tomato, carrots etc and of course bread slices. 

Preparation Time - 5 Minutes 

Cooking Time - 15 Minutes 

Total Time - 20 Minutes 

Serves - Makes 4 Sandwiches

Ingredients - 

  • 4 Bread Slices 
  • 2 Tablespoons Mayonese 
  • 1 Tablespoon very finely chopped capsicum
  • 1 Tablespoon very finely chopped tomato
  • 1 Tablespoon very finely chopped carrot
  • 1/2 teaspoon Chilli Flakes
  • Salt to taste
Method - 

  •  Preheat the oven to 200 degree centigrade. 
  • In a small bowl, add mayonese, capsicum, tomato, and carrot. 
  • Now add salt and chilli flakes (If you don't have chilli flakes, you can add red pepper powder or black pepper powder) 
  • Mix this properly. 
  • Take a bread slice. Spread this mixture nicely on it. 

  • Put a cheese slice on the top. 

  • Cover it with the second bread slice and press it a little bit. 

  • Now grill the sandwich. Grill it for 5 minutes at 200 degree centigrade on one side. Then turn it and again grill it for 5 minutes at 200 degree centigrade. 

  • Your cheesy veg sandwich is ready! 



Saturday 25 February 2017

Chilli Panner (No Bake Recipe)

Chilli Panner (No Bake Recipe) - 





Hello all of you. Time for another NO BAKE RECIPE. 

Chilli Panner is an all time favourite Chinese dish. It tastes delicious and is easy to make. 

For this, we firstly fry panner cubes, dipped in a nice batter, till golden brown. Then we make a nice gravy out of different sauces, garli, green chilli, veggies etc. We then add the  paneer cubes in this gravy. Chilli Panner can be eaten along a roti or fried rice or chowmein. It tastes nice with any of these. 




Preparation Time - 5 minutes

Cooking Time - 20 minutes

Total Time - 25 minutes

Serves - 2

Ingredients :

  • 100 grams Paneer cut into cubes
  • 1 Capsicum chopped
  • 1 Onion  chopped
  • 1 teaspoon chopped garlic
  • 1 green chilli chopped 
  • 1 tablespoon tomato ketchup
  • 1/2 tablespoon green chilli sauce
  • 1 teaspoon soya sauce
  • 1 teaspoon vinegar
  • 3 tablespoon cornflour + 1 tablespoon 
  • 1/4 cup water
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper according to the taste

Method - 

  • Firstly make a thick batter by adding 3 tablespoon cornflour in 2 tablespoon water. 
  • Cut paneer into small cubes. Heat oil in a large vessel. Nicely coat these paneer cubes in this batter and deep fry them till their color changes to nice golden brown. 
  • Now let's make the gravy. In a pan,  add one tablespoon oil. Heat it. Add garlic and green chilli. Saute for about a minute. 
  • Now add onion  and  capsicum. On a medium flame, saute this, for about two minutes. 


  • Now add tomato ketchup, green chilli sauce, soya sauce, vinegar, salt and pepper. Also add 1/4 cup water. 
  • On a low flame, mix this properly. Now mix one tablespoon cornflour in about half a tablespoon water. Add this to the gravy. Due to the cornflour and water mixture, the gravy will get thick. 
  • Now add the deep fried paneer cubes. Cook, on a low flame, for about a minute. 
  • Chilli Paneer is ready! 


Wednesday 22 February 2017

Chocolate Banana Muffins

Chocolate Banana Muffins - 





Hello all of you. Muffins are one of the easiest baked dessert. They are a nice snack. They are great desserts. Muffins only need a handful of ingredients. They can therefore be prepared easily. 

Chocolate Banana Muffins is a tasty and healty recipe. Banana muffins are my favourite. They are easy to make. They are a good option for vegetarians also as they are eggless. The bananas here would do the work of the eggs. They would make the muffins soft and spongy. In this muffins, I have also added cocoa powder to give the usual banana muffins some change. And the results are great. Chocolate and Banana tastes so nice together.  



Chocolate Banana Muffins are a healthy option for breakfast. Just have one or two muffins in the breakfast and you are sorted. They are also a good energy supplier for kids. Before they go out for playing, give them one of these, for eating. 

Preparation  Time - 10 minutes 

Cooking Time - 30 minutes

Serves - 4

Ingredients -


  • 1 Cup mashed banana 
  • 1/2 Cup Maida (Flour) 
  • 1/4 Cup Cocoa Powder
  • 1/2 Cup Sugar 
  • 1/4 Cup Oil
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence 
  • 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder 
  • 2 tablespoon milk

Method - 

  • Preheat the oven to 180 degree centigrade. Grease a muffin tray with oil. Put muffin paper liner in the muffin tray. 
  • Take the mashed bananas, sugar and oil in a bowl. Mix them together nicely.
  • Now add vanilla essence and mix. 



  • Seive flour, cocoa  powder, baking soda and  baking powder together. 
  • Add these dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. 
  • If the mixture is too thick, add 2 two tablespoon milk. 
  • Put this mixture in the muffin tray. 
  • Bake for 30 minutes or till an inserted skewer comes out clean, at 180 degree centigrade. 

ALSO SEE - 





If you have any doubt or suggestion related to baking, you can message on DELIGHTED BAKING'S FACEBOOK PAGE or email at   delightedbaking@gmail.com 


Wednesday 15 February 2017

Honey Chilli Potato (No Bake Recipe)

Honey Chilli Potato (No Bake Recipe) 

  • - A great snack for kids as well as for house parties. 




Hello all of you. Honey Chilli Potato is a tasty Chinese snack. It is one of the best options as a snack for kids as well as a snack for house parties. 

Honey Chilli Potato consists of long potato wedges (Like french fries)  tossed in a nice saucy gravy of garlic, chopped onions and capsicums, various sauces etc. It tastes best when served hot, directly from the pan. 

Also See - 

For this, the potatoes are firstly cut into long wedges. Then they are coated in a batter made up of flour,  cornflour and water. After this they are deep fried. Later on they are tossed in a nice saucy gravy. Sounds tasty, right! 😍

Preparation Time - 20 minutes

Cooking Time -  20 minutes

Total Time - 40 minutes

Serves - 4


Ingredients - 

For the potatoes - 
  • 4-5 potatoes cut into long wedges ( Like French fries) 
  • 4 tablespoons flour
  • 1 tablespoon cornflour
  • A pinch of salt
  • Water enough for making a thick batter
For the Sauvy Gravy - 
  • 1 onion finely chopped 
  • 1 capsicum cut into thin juliennes (cut into long strips) 
  • 1 tablespoon chopped garlic 
  • 1 green chilli chopped 
  • 1 tablespoon tomato sauce
  • 1 teaspoon soya sauce
  • 1 teaspoon green chilli sauce 
  • 1 teaspoon white vinegar 
  • Salt to taste 
  • Pepper powder to taste
  • Honey - 1 tablespoon 

Method - 

  • Cut the potatoes into long wedges,  like French fries. 
  • Make a thick batter using flour,  cornflour, salt and water. 
  • Heat oil in a pan. Mix the potato wedges and batter nicely. Now deep fry the potato wedges till they are  golden in color. 
  • For making the sauce,  take a pan. Add 1 tablespoon oil. Heat it. Add garlic and green chilli. Saute for a few seconds. 
  • Now add the chopped onions and capsicums. Saute, on a middle flame,  for around two minutes. 

  • Now add tomato sauce, green chilli sauce, soya sauce, salt, pepper, vinegar and honey. 
  • Cook it for a minute. 
  • Now add the deep fried potato wedges. On a low flame, nicely toss the potato wedhes so that they get coated with the gravy. 
  • Your honey chilli potatoes are ready! 

Note - 

  • You can garnish your honey chilli potatoes with white sesame and chopped spring onions. This will give  a nice look to the honey chilli potatoes. 
  • If you are making these for a party,  you can deep fry the potato wedges in advance. As your guests arrive, make the gravy, toss the potato wedges in the gravy and serve these hot to your guests. 
  • If you want you can add chilli flakes also. It would give them a spicy flavour. 





If you have any doubt or suggestion related to baking,  you can message me on DELIGHTED BAKING's FACEBOOK PAGE or email at delightedbaking@gmail.com 

Sunday 12 February 2017

Nutella Mug Cake (Microwave Recipe )

Nutella Mug Cake (Microwave Recipe) 


Hello everyone. Mug Cake is a  really nice dessert. It is easy to make. It needs only a few  ingredients. They are perfect when you want to eat a cake but don't want to bake a big cake. Mug cake is also a nice dessert for guests. 

Now we all love Nutella, isn't it? 
Now imagine a cake made up of nutella. Even better as it requires a handful of ingredients. For this,  you just need nutella,  flour and an egg. Yeah!  Just  three ingredients. And you are ready with your spongy and chocolaty Nutella Mug Cake. You can also decorate it with powdered sugar, like this 👇



This Mug Cake is prepared in the microwave. So this is a microwave special recipe. You just need to heat this cake mixture for a minute and your mug cake is ready. You can start making this mug cake just at the end of lunch or dinner and in a few minutes, you get hot and spongy mug cake. 





Preparation Time -  5 Minutes

Cooking Time  -  1 minute

Total Time -  6 minutes 

Serves - 1

Ingredients - 

  • 1/4 Cup Nutella 
  • 1 Egg
  • 2 Tablespoon Flour

Method - 

  • Take a microwave safe mug. 
  • Add nutella. NOTE - Nutella should be at room temperature. 
  • Now add egg. 
  • Mix nutella and egg together. Add flour. Mix properly. 
  • Microwave it for 1 minute. (Remember you don't have to bake it in the convection mode of the microwave. You simply have to heat this mixture as you reheat your food. The heat will bake your mug cake). 



If you have any doubt or suggestion  related to baking,  you can message me at DELIGHTED BAKING'S FACEBOOK PAGE,  or email at delightedbaking@gmail.com 

Wednesday 8 February 2017

A SHORT NOTE ON CAKE TINS

Hello all of you. The main motive behind this blog is to help home bakers. Therefore I thought of posting about the basics of baking. I will try  to write at least one post related to Baking Basics every  week.


This week, the  topic is - Cake Tins


Cake tins,  also known as cake moulds, are the most important baking tool. We bake our cakes in cake tins. So this is probably the first baking cookware any person buys. So let's  first discuss the types of cake tins.

# Aluminium Cake Tin - 




Aluminium cake tin is the most common form of cake tin one would find in anyone's house. They come in different shapes like heart,  square,  round etc.

How to grease an aluminium cake tin? 

One thing to remember while using aluminium cake tin is to grease it. You can do this in two ways - 

# Put few drops of  oil in the tin. Using a brush or your hand,  spread this oil properly on the cake tin's surface. Coat both  the sides and the base of the cake tin. Now add a handful of  flour into the  cake tin. Tap the cake tin from all sides,  so that the flour tin gets coated with the flour. Tap on the back of the cake tin to remove any extra flour. 

# You can also use a butter paper. Properly put oil on your cake tin. Cut the butter paper according to the size of your cake tin. Press the butter paper properly in the  cake tin.
Now pour the cake batter in the tin. After the cake has baked, simply pull it out by holding the butter paper.

# Non stick cake tin - 




Non stick cake tin are the another category of cake tin. They also come in different shapes like round,  square,  heart etc. 

How to grease a nonstick cake tin? 

One benefit non stick cake tins have over aluminium cake tins, is that they don't need greasing. The cake batter can be  directly poured into the cake tin.

# Special kinds of cake tin -

Now there are some  unique cake tins. They are generally  not used by people unless and until they are truly fond of baking. They are used for making unique shaped cakes. For instance,  -  Look at this cake tin below. Isn't the cake baked in this tin beautiful? 



Source -  Pinterest


There are many other types of unique cake tins. For instance, if you are making a cake for children, you can opt for cake tins that come in the shape of a cartoon character. 


Source -  Pinterest


You can easily buy cake tins like these online. Disney princess themed cake tins,  winnie the pooh themed cake tin, mickey mouse themed cake tin etc are the some easily available cake tins for children themed cake. 


One of my favourite cake tin is pictured below. See it's so easy to use and after the cake has been baked, you get already cut slices. Isn't it nice?  You can pour in different cake batters in different slices. You can decorate each cake slice  in a different way. 



Source -  Pinterest 


Loaf cake tin is also a type of cake tin. It is used for baking breads or for making loaf cakes. You can buy it for giving your  cake a different shape. 



Source -  Pinterest 


So these are some of the unique cake tins. There are many more such cake tins. You can look for them online or in shops that solely deal in baking. 

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Tuesday 7 February 2017

Orange Truti Fruti Muffins

Orange Truti Fruti Muffins - 






Hello all of you. As I have said earlier also, Muffins are my favorite baked recipe. They are easy to make, require only a handful of ingredients and they get baked in a small  amount of time. You can experiment with them a lot. They are a great dessert. They are also a great option for breakfast. They don't require any additional preparations. In all, they are a nice thing to try.

This time I tried baking Orange Muffins. To add a little more flavour and taste to them, I added a handful  of truti fruti to them. Now truti Fruti is such a nice ingredient. It easily increases the taste of any baked sweet dish. The combination of truti fruti and orange is really great. 






Let's see the recipe and do try it. Don't forget to share your experience with me. 


Preparation Time - 20 Minutes

Cooking Time - 25 Minutes

Serves - 5

Ingredients - 

  • Maida (Flour) - 1 Cup + 1 tablespoon
  • Oil  - 1/4 Cup
  • Sugar - 1/2 Cup
  • Orange Zest - 1 tablespoon
  • Orange Juice - 1 Cup
  • Baking Powder - 1/2 teaspoon
  • Baking Soda - 1/2 teaspoon
  • Truti Fruti - 1 tablespoon + 1/2 tablespoon for putting on top of muffins

Method - 

  • Preheat the oven to 180 degree Centigrade. Grease the muffin tray nicely with oil. Place the paper liners in the muffin tray.
  • Now sieve together flour, baking powder and baking soda.
  • Grate oranges to take out orange zest. NOTE - Grate only the outer orange skin and not the inside white part. The white part would be bitter and would hamper the  taste of your muffins.




  • Also take out orange's juice. Using a juicer, take out the juice. If you don't have a juicer, then just blend the oranges in a food processor. After this, sieve the juice.
  • Take oil and sugar in a bowl. Mix nicely so that the sugar gets  mixed nicely. Now add the orange juice. Mix properly. Add the orange zest and mix together.
  • Now add the sieved flour mixture. Mix nicely.
  • Add truti fruti and properly mix together everything.
  • Ad the batter in the muffin tray. You can fill it till the top. Put some truti fruti on the top.
  • Bake for 20-25 minutes at 180 degree centigrade.



If you  have any doubt or suggestion related to baking,  you can message me on DELIGHTED BAKING's FACEBOOK PAGE or email at delightedbaking@gmail.com.