CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR TREAT

Year 2008 passed soo soon and also its the year I started my own food blog through which I got lots and lots of lovely sweet blogger friends. I appreciate your visits to my blog , your comments , ideas and that made me inspired to prepare varieties of recipes. I am really honoured to have you all. Hey guys, one more good news is in these forecoming days its gonna be long weekend, also my younger brother is visiting my place from Boston. So very excited to see him after long and also we are planning to enjoy these holidays going for a short trip. So this would be most probably my last post in this year and I would like to present you all with some delicious treat :)

CHOCO BREAD

I was carving for chocolatly dish when I got an idea of making this choco bread using hershely's

chocolate syrup. I know my previous post was also based on chocolate syrup. But the only difference is that was drink and this is sweet bread . Just wanted to give it a try for the first time. It worked up well and my little gal too loved it.

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2 Cup Maida.

2 Egg.

1 tsp Baking soda.

2 tsp Vanilla Essence.

1 Cup Sugar.

1 Stick of butter.

1/4 Cup Hershey's chocolate syrup.

Chocolate chips. (optional)

METHOD

Preheat the oven for 350 degree.

Combine maida and baking soda together. Keep aside.

In an bowl beat the eggs well till its becomes fluffy. Then add sugar, vanilla essence, oil and chocolate syrup. Mix well.

To this add maida baking soda mixture slowly. Stir and make sure no lumps are formed.

Pour the batter in the greased vessel nd bake them for 45 min or until it turns brown all over and well cooked.

UPSIDE DOWN APPLE CAKE

Heard of pineapple upside down cake, but never with apples until I browsed net. There were few leftover  apples and apple juice in my fridge so thaught of jumping into making an apple cake. With a touch of cinnamon powder , I loved the flavour of caramalised sugar with apples. That was great. 

INGREDIENTS

1 Apple.

2 Eggs.

1 3/4 Cup All purpose flour.

1/4 Cup Oil or butter.

3/4 Cup Sugar.

1 tsp Vanilla extract.

2 tsp Baking powder.

1/4 Cup Apple juice.

Few chunks of apples.

FOR CARAMALISATION.

5 tsp Sugar.

1 tsp Cinnaman powder.

Drop of water.

METHOD

Preheat oven to 325.

Peel the apple skin and cut into semicircle slices and arrange them on a baking bowl.

Heat a pan and add sugar,cinnamon powder and drop of water on medium heat till sugar starts to melt. Make sure not to stir. Its enough to shake the pan to spread the heat. Later when the sugar starts melting into brown colour, immediately pout it on the arranged sliced apples evenly. Take care not to let the syrup boil or burnt else it will taste bitter.

Meanwhile whisk the eggs in a bowl. Add sugar and baking powder and give a cont stir till its light and fluffy. Add oil and apple juice and the chunks of apples followed by adding the flour little by little making sure not to form any lumps. Gently pour the mixture evently on the caramalised apple slices. Bake them for 1 hour or until the cake is done. Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool for half an hour. Now the fun part comes. Carefully turn them over on a platter and lift up the bowl. Serve just as it is.

Sending this to ''CHRISTMAS FEAST EVENT HOSTED BY PURVA''.

Also sending this to ''BAKING FOR BEGINNERS HOSTED BY VANDANA RAJESH''.

A short note for the baking beginners.

Baking is just a simple easy process that everyone would prefer to bake food thesedays rather than standing infront of stove. Just mix all the ingredients , set time and the oven makes the rest of all. Makes life easier and the taste is just healthy and perfect.

MAIDA HALWA

This is the recipe which I adopted from 'Roopa' but basically she tryed from 'Easy craft'. This the such an easy recipe with less ingredients that I thaught it would be perfect to post them at the end of this year. Watch out for the ingredients here. Thank u Easycraft for this wonderful recipe and thanks to 'Roopa' because I would have missed this awesome recipe if you would have not posted it in your blog.

''WISHING U ALL A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS , HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A VERY HAPPY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.''

ENJOY AND LETS ALL WELCOME 2009.