Pineapple cake

Before I start today's recipe I must share something with you all. I was not at all good on making cake while I was in India. But after I came here I started making really tasty cakes.Do you know why? I was not patience enough to make a cake. But as I have lot of free time in my hand I am making cakes very patiently and carefully.So one thing about making a good cake is patience; irrespective of wherever you are or whatever is happening , you have to give full concentration on your cake if you want to make really good cakes.

Ingredients:

For Cake:

• 250gms flour
• 250gms of granulated sugar
• 75gms butter
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

For Icing:

• 2 cups of whipping cream
• 1 cup of icing sugar(approximately)

For Decoration:

• 1 small pineapple(cut in small slice)
• 2-3 strawberries 

Procedure:

• Break all four eggs and pour it in a mixing bowl.
• Start beating it with the help of hand mixer in a medium speed.
• Slowly add the sugar and keep on beating until you mix all the sugar and the mixture become double in size and very very light weight.
• Melt the butter in microwave and add it in the mixture.Don't pour it hot.Let it cool down a little bit then add it.
• Add vanilla in it and beat it for another 5-10 minutes.
• Now sieve the flour on the mixture and mix it very slowly and carefully.
• Grease two cake tin with oil or butter and sprinkle some flour in it.
• Pour equal amount of cake mixture on both the tins.
• Preheat your oven at 350degree Fahrenheit or 180 degree Celsius.
• Bake it for 15-20mins.
• For making icing, take a bowl,pour the whipping cream and start beating it in a high speed.
• Start adding icing sugar in it.Do not add all at a time.Keep on beating until you mix all the sugar.when it will become nice and foamy stop beating.One more thing you can do to check if it reaches to right consistency or not.With the help of the whisk or spoon take off some cream and turn it backward.If the cream do not drop from the spoon then you will understand that it is in right consistency.
• Blend some pineapple in a mixture and squeeze the juice from it.Then add a teaspoon of sugar and mix it well.
• Take both the cake and sprinkle about 2 teaspoon of the juice on each cake.If your cake top is not even then cut it evenly with a flat knife because we want a layered cake and for that even cake is must.
• Take a spatula or flat knife and add a good quantity of whipped cream on top of each cake and flatten it properly.
• Place pineapple slice on top of one cake.Put as much slice as you can but make sure that the slice are thin.You can make thick slice as well but in that case it will be difficult to cut the cake.
• Put the other cake on top of it putting the cream side downward.
• Now take some more icing and cover the top and the edges of the cake with it.Remember one thing , this icing is just a start up this is not a final icing so do not put lot of whipped cream,rather take small amount of cream and spread it across evenly so that it forms a very thin layer on the cake.
• Put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
• After an hour we will do second layer of icing.Now take a good quantity of whipped cream and spread it all over the cake.Flatten it with a flat knife or spatula and make a smooth ,flat icing.
• Put it into the refrigerator again for an hour.
• After that fill you piping bag and decorate your cake with whipped cream,strawberry and pineapple.I used some star cones to decorate it , you can choose your own decoration style.Now your cake is ready to serve.

I am really sorry that I was not being able to take step by step picture of this recipe as I had to concentrate on each step.But I promise that the next time I will make this cake I will take all step by step procedure and will upload it here.Till then enjoy cooking :)

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Cheesy Rice with Fried Chicken

This is a very good full meal and can be made in almost half an hour time if ingredients are ready.You can have it in lunch or in dinner. Specially if you have returned home late and really tied and don't want to put much effort to make a food though want to have a good dinner then this is the recipe that you should try.

Ingredients:

For making rice:

1. Rice 1 cup.
2. 1 cup tomato paste
3. 3/4 th cup Parmesan cheese.
4. 1 teaspoon soya sauce.
5. 1 teaspoon red chili paste.
6. 1/2 cup of milk.
7. 3-4 cups of water.
8. salt as per taste.

For Making chicken:

1. Thin slice of chicken breast pieces 200gms.
2. Chopped garlic 2 teaspoon.
3. Oyster sauce 5-6 teaspoon.
4. Red chili paste 1-2 teaspoon..
5. Tomato sauce 1 teaspoon.
6. Black pepper powder 1 teaspoon.
7. 2-3 baby carrots cut into slice.
8. 2-3 beans (cut in half).
9. 4-5small pieces of broccoli.
10. Chopped coriander 2 teaspoon. 
11. 4 teaspoon of oil.

Procedure:

For making rice:

• Take a pressure cooker.Add all ingredients except milk and cheese.
• Cover the lid and put it in medium flame for about 20-15 minutes or till 5-6 whistle.
• After that remove the lid , add milk and cheese.
• Mix it really well or until all the cheese get melted in the rice.

For making chicken:

• Take a non-stick pan and put it in high flame. 
• Add some oil and let it get a little warm.Then add chopped garlic and the chicken pieces.
• Sprinkle pepper powder and salt on it and fry it till it turns little brown from both the sides.
• Now add chili paste,tomato sauce and oyster sauce one by one.
• Add carrots,broccoli and beans and fry it for about 5 minutes in low flame. 
• Add some more salt for the vegetables. 
• You can add a little bit of water if required so that the sauce don't get burn. But it must be very very little.If not required do not add water.

You can make rice and chicken at the same time. After putting the pressure cooker on the oven you can start preparing the chicken.

For Serving:

• Take a serving plate.Pour the rice in it.
• Put the fried chicken on top of it.
• Put the vegetables with the chicken.
• Sprinkle some chopped coriander and serve it hot.
• Remember you need to serve it hot otherwise it won't taste good as the rice has cheese in it.

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Paneera Bread

First of all a very Happy Valentine's Day to all of you. I am really sorry that I was not being able to post this recipe for quite a long time.So today as a penalty I will share two recipe together.First we will make a breakfast and then lunch/dinner.
So lets start with the breakfast.

Ingredients:

1. 4 bread slice
2. 100gms small diced Paneer(available in Indian Stores)
3. finely chopped red,green and yellow bell pepper 2 teaspoon each.
4. 1teaspoon butter.
5. tomato sauce 2 teaspoon.
6. salt as per test.
7. black pepper powder 1/2 teaspoon.
8. cheese slice 2 (optional)

Procedure:

• Put a frying pan in medium flame and pour the butter in it.
• Add Paneer and all the bell peppers.
• Add some salt and black pepper powder.
• Fry it for about 5 minuts.
• Take a bread and evenly spread 1 teaspoon of tomato sauce on top of it.
• Now pour half of the Paneer mixture,spread it evenly,add one cheese slice and then cover it with another bread.Cheese is totally optional here.I do not prefer to give cheese,specially if I am having breakfast with it because I try to be conscious about my increasing weight. But if you are quite slim you can add it.Otherwise if you are taking it as a snacks you can add one cheese slice.Otherwise no need to add.
• Prepare the other two bread as above.
• Now preheat a sandwich grill and put those sandwich on it.Cover the lid and put it for 3-5 minutes or until it has those nice brown grill color in its body.
• If you don't have sandwich grill you can make it in sandwich maker as well as in any frying pan.If you are doing it on frying pan please do add cheese otherwise it wont be able to hold the paneer mixture together.One thing is the texture that you can get in sandwich grill won't be possible in others but taste will be almost same for all.
• Now cut the bread diagonally and serve it hot. The crunchy bread outside with soft and juicy paneer filling will melt in your mouth.

Enjoy this breakfast....Happy cooking :)

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Black Forest Cake

When someone say "cake" , the first name that comes into my mind is 'Black-forest'. The soft chocolate cake with layers of whipped cream make me so happy that I forgot my weight and start eating as much as I can.So today I am going to share my black-forest recipe with all of you .

Ingredients:

1. flour 175gms
2.  powder sugar 225gm
3. melted chocolate or coco powder 75gm
4. chocolate flakes 150gms
5. 4 eggs
6. cherry 15-20 piece
7. whipping cream 2 cup
8. powder sugar 1 to 1.5 cup
9. butter 75gms

Procedure:

• take a bowl and break all 4 eggs into it.
• add 225gms of sugar and start beating it with a hand beater.
• beat it for about 10-15 minutes in a medium speed or till it comes to a ribbon state and becomes very nice and foamy.
• now add melted chocolate in it.for melting hard chocolate you can take a microwave proof bowl,put the hard chocolate and butter together in it and keep it in the microwave for 1min.Otherwise you can do it with coco powder as well.So add melted chocolate with butter mixer or coco powder and melted butter (whatever you want) in it and mix it slowly.
• then sieve the flour and mix it slowly with very very soft hand.
• take two separate same size cake tin or cake pan, grease it with butter and sprinkle some flour in it.
• now pour equal quantity of the cake mixer in both the cake pan.
• preheat your oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit which is approximately180 degree Celsius and bake the cake for 20-25mins.
• after 20-25min do a tooth pick test(insert a toothpick into the cake ,if it comes out clean means your cake is ready ,if not you have to bake it for another 5-10mins).

• now start beating the whipping cream in a low speed for about 10-15 mins and keep on adding sugar in it.Do not add the sugar all at one time.Add it slowly.When it will become double in size and very very light weight ,stop beating that. You can notice that I have mentioned sugar  twice in ingredients list.The first amount of sugar is for cake mix and second is for the cream.

 

• now we will start layering the cake.Here I am making two layered cake.If you want to do more layering just increase the number of cake bases.
• put one cake base in a flat plate or serving tray and make a thick layer of whipped cream on top of it.Then add almost 10 chopped cherries on top.As I did not have cherries at that time I used strawberries.

• Put the second cake base on top of it.

• Then cover the whole cake with thick layer of whipped cream.

• sprinkle chocolate chips all over it.You can take normal chocolate and then can make chocolate chips by yourself with the help of a knife or peeler.

• Now take a cone or spoon and decorate it as you like. Your black forest is ready to serve.I decorated it with Whipped cream and strawberry like the way it sold in market.But you can decorate it as you like.Just take a cone.Fill it up with whipped cream.Make some circle and put some cherries on top of it.

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