Orange & Coconut Marble Cake Filed under ( Cakes and Cookies, Festivals )

Dashing through the snow

In a one horse open sleigh

O'er the fields we go

Laughing all the way

Bells on bob tails ring

Making spirits bright

What fun it is to laugh and sing

A sleighing song tonight



Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh

Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh



A day or two ago

I thought I'd take a ride

And soon Miss Fanny Bright

Was seated by my side

The horse was lean and lank

Misfortune seemed his lot

We got into a drifted bank

And then we got upsot



Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh

Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh yeah



Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh

Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh

Merry Christmas to al… May Lord bless u with lots of happiness and healt…nd Santa Gift u bundle of Joy.....



M missing my school days where we used to celebrate Christmas….. Sing Carols , decorate cribs ….have competitions Nd more of all m missing those sweets nd savories, cakes nd cookies frenz used to get ……… Awww I loved them …. Thanks to all who brought them and had fun together :).

Here is todays recipe which was there in my draft for pretty long time… I thought this wud be the right time to post a cake……

Here goes the recipe for Orange and Coconut Marble Cake….





I tried this out myself without following ne blog… just made it like the Marble cake.



We need



All purpose flour – 2 cups

Eggs – 3 ( instead of baking powder nd baking soda)

Orange Essence – 1 tsp

Orange Juice – 1/4th cup,

Water – ½ cup

Coconut milk – 1/4th cup

Butter – ½ cup

Powdered Sugar – 2 cup

Desiccated Coconut – 4-5 tbsp



Method:

Preheat oven for 375* F.

Cream butter until fluffy add eggs one by one and beat for 5 minutes on medium speed until fluffy.

Add powdered sugar and mix well.

Now add flour lil by lil and without forming lumps, water and beat for 5 minutes.

Now divide the batter into two equal portions and to one portion add orange juice and mix well.

For the other portion add coconut milk(shudn be much thick), desiccated coconut and mix well

Grease a round baking tin and pour the orange batter first and then the coconut batter and repeat the same until done … take a tooth pick nd just move it in the mixture….. and bake for 35 – 40 min or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Cool the cake for a while nd place it on a wire rack.

Cut into pieces.

Orange Coconut Marble Cake is ready to Serve.

Tastes Yum Yum when u add lozza love in it.



M hoping that U guys try it out nd tell me how it turned ... It was A super hit at my place :)

I m Sending this to RV's Event.... Food For Seven Stages In Love with DDPI(15-24yrs)

Zeebra's Hunt





Strawberry Cake

Vanilla Cake

Till My Next post,

Luv,

Follow my Thumbprint.............. Filed under ( Cakes and Cookies )

After so many months I m posting this recipe…. Sushma of Authentic food delights was asking me this recipe ….some of my other frenz did too… M really sorry girls it went of my mind ….. today after so many days I remembered about this so thought of posting it…..



My first cookies wasn a big hit….but I never lost hope :P I folowed the spider rule….try n try til u succeed.





Alas I have…. :)



Here is the recipe for The Cookies

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/4 cup sugar

1 egg

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup all-purpose flour

2/3 cup any flavor fruit jam or any preserve ( I used Cherry preserve)

1/4 teaspoon salt



Directions

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets.

Separate egg, reserving egg white. Cream butter or margarine, sugar, and egg yolk.

Add vanilla, flour and salt, mixing well.

Shape dough into balls. Roll in egg white. Place on cookie sheets about 2 inches apart.

With thumb, dent each cookie. Put jelly or preserves in each thumbprint. Bake for another 12-13 minutes





Tastes Yum Yum when u add lozza love in it.



Signing of for now....

Take Care

A year of Love Filed under ( Anniversary, Awards, Cakes and Cookies, Festivals, MeMe )

Last year on August 22nd I changes from Ms. to Mrs……and was tied up with the World Best person……I must say he is my life......I remember each nd every moment we spend together today we cherished all the lovely moments….I had my best gift with me :P apart from tht Guru gave me something very very spl.







I was wondering wat shall I do for this day???? I asked my best buddy wht shall I do? I wanted to give him a Cannon Camera P10….but here I cudn go all alone (as it is not allowed) I was just like a fish without water :P…….I even asked Lubna wht cud I do?? She suggested me about a card nd a good décor…I had tht ready but I wanted something more apart from tht…. Then I decided to go for shopping vth guru and just skip once nd buy tht camers for him (Camera bcoz from past 5 months he is thinking of buying it but always told will buy later now I have a good Cam ne ways :P :P). As I thought I went for shopping and tried skipping but this guy was all the way with me then phew his colleague called him (thanks a lot to him) nd this guy was bz spking I ran to 3 4 shops but dint find tht model….:( now wht to do then I thought I will buy a gud watch…..I ran bac to Casio nd picked a watch for him and got it packd soon so tht by the time he is in the box is in y bag…but he saw a bit of the box he kept on asking whtz tht ….But m smart ain’t I? I told the sales guy to tell he just gave me a box nd he did so…



I will upload the snaps of the handmade flowers soon...



Now for the cake I had to get a cake ready….vth wht I had bcoz everything had to be a surprise….I prprd a Pineapple Cake with Strawberry butter icing…but when I was applying the Icing my Sweet hubby was about to enter so I hurried to apply tht so it hasn come tht even…..:( but it hds tasted heavenly………. Everything is ready but he is in the room how to push him out….yeppppppy Idea I told him tht his fav show was going on nd he went out I kept the cake ready all his gifts nd had to make the most funniest reason for him to come In( not to be revealed :P) nd now time to cut the cake together…He was so happy for everything I did for him…. Luking at all his gifts he was over whelmed….After all this I was hungry so had my dinner….then had a great snore zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz until next morning…..





A bright morning…as if the sun was Inviting us with Love……the day starts nd we r on with the morning show – LUCK…..Really was a good movie. After all this our stomcahe started calling for food …….(as it is Ramadan all the restu….were closed until evening we cud not go out for lunch) so we planned for dinner….. to Movenpick

. I cooked something really simple as I had to keep my tummy empty for the dinner (As I always tell we eat like birds….sometimes even Lunch fills our tummy…nd we have just salad at nyt: P). We had a wonderful evening and a ever memorable one. I will cherish each moment.



He he he after all my stories I will post the Cake recipe ( it was really soft nd Fluffy…as I was hurrying I cudn manage with the perfect icing though L)…. I saw Upside down cake of Divya’s Blog , but I made them with egg nd it was not exactly upside down cake as did not place pineapple slices.





Here is what we need:

All purpose flour – 2 cups

Eggs – 3 ( instead of baking powder nd baking soda)

Pineapple essence – 1 ½ tbsp

Water – 1 cup (divs used 3/4th cup of milk)

Butter – ½ cup

Powdered Sugar – 2 cup ( I replaced sugar instead of milkmaid)

For Icing I followed her butter cream icing

Softened butter – ½ cup

Icing sugar – 1 ½ cup

Strawberry essence - ! tbsp (divs used vanilla essence and cocoa powder)

Pink colour – 1/2tsp

Method:

Preheat oven for 375* F.

Cream butter until fluffy add eggs one by one and beat for 5 minutes on medium speed until fluffy.

Add powdered sugar and mix well.

Now add flour lil by lil and without forming lumps, add pineapple essence, water and beat for 5 minutes until creamy and fluffy.

Grease a round baking tin and pour the batter into the tin and bake for 35 – 40 min or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Cool the cake for a while nd place it on a wire rack.

Now prepare for the icing:

Cream together butter and icing sugar until soft and creamy.

Add strawberry icing and pink food colour. And beat well.

Spread on the cake and and cool in refrigerator for some while.





Tastes Yum Yum when u add lozza love in it.

It made my day even more bright as I received some wonderful treats from Suma Of Suma’s Cuisine….she passed on me a bunch of awards.



Now time for a Tag



And here are some of the 'Tags' I received:





1. What is your current obsession?

Current one is Bloogging :)



2. What are you wearing today?

Capri nd a green top



3. What’s for dinner?

I have thought of preparing Fried rice nd munchurian ( I myt change my mind too)



4. What’s the last thing you bought?

Some fresh veggies



5. What are you listening to right now?

A medley of crow’s craw craw with a beautiful song from LUCK



6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?

Lovely person with a wonderful blog



7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world ,where would you like it to be?

Any where my sweet hubby takes me….a forest will also do… :P



8. What are your must-have pieces for summer?

Cotton clothings.



9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?

To my hubby’s office bcoz m missing very much now....:(





10. Which language do you want to learn?

Arabic….as its so difficult to communicate here.



11. What’s your favourite quote?

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.





12. Who do you want to meet right now?

My Parents and my hubby.



13. What is your favourite colour?

Any shades of purple.



14. What is your favourite piece of clothing in your own closet?

Each nd every piece of cloth in my closet is my favourite.



15. What is your dream job?

When I m into it Ill get back nd tell….( I remember when we had to prepare our moral science record in 5th std we had a gal in our class whose name was Aparna Prabhu nd her dream Job was to be a Housewife :P….tht time I was Aparna Bhat ).



16. What’s your favourite magazine?

There isn’t ne one as fav’s…I can read ne magazine which is interesting.



17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?

I would buy sumthin lovely for my hubby .



18. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?

Heavy make up is eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks.



19. Who are your style icons?

Everybody is stylish according to them so None.



20. Describe your personal style.?

A simple and Comfortable clothes luks elegant.



21. What are you going to do after this?

After all this I donno wht m I gonna do bcoz I never pre decide :P



22. What are your favourite movies?

I love ne movie which doesn get me bored.



24. What are three cosmetic/makeup/perfume products that you can't live without?

Face cream, Lip gloss nd of course Deo’s nd perfumes ( I cant live vthout this bcoz I feel my self incomplete without deo, nd my fav perfume is Nina Ricci)



23. What inspires you?

Many things inspire me…if I start I will never end :O



24. Give us three styling tips that always work for you:

Wear a comfortable clothing, apply some lip gloss and maintain ur hair well.



25. Which is ur worst subject in school/College?

I cud not stand social science subject in school.....myt be not bcoz the subject is boring but may be bcoz i dint like ne teacher who taught this subject everybody was Nuts....especially my 8th nd 9th std teachers.... I hope they read it...bcoz i want them to kno tht they have to improve atleast now (myt be they r retired donno :P)



26. Coffee or tea?

Depends if it is morning or evening.



27. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?

I cry a lotz…….ne one can fill their buckets with tht :P.....i speak to my sweet hubby…..nd I m alrit



28. What is the meaning of your name?

Aparna is Goddess Parvati’s name (she got this name when she was meditating and fasting without even eating a Leaf to get lord shiva as her husband). I dint meditate though :P



29. Which other blogs you love visiting?

I love all each nd every Blog.





30. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?

Every time I eat something delicious I feel this is my favorite sweet…he he he…it all depends on my mood…but I can have chocolates ne time…..I know the taste of almost every chocolate…nd sometimes I m known as chocolate gal in college as I had atleast one chocolate in my bag :P.





I am adding 1 more:

31. 3 physical features you get complimented a lot?

:P my clolur, My million dollar smile, nd my straight nd sliky long hair.



**The rules are: Respond and rework – answer the questions on your own blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, and add one more question of your own. Then tag eight or ten other people.



I am passing the awards to all my lovely bloggie frenzzie as I know most of them have received this tag.

Mythreyi

Padma Rekha

Divya Kudua

Ujwal

Parita

Varsha

Neha,

Trupti



Congratulation gals and enjoy!!.



As this post is after my golden entry (50th post)……I wud love to get connected to more blogs nd love more nd more pepole visiting me nd dropping their lovely comments which wud make my blog get a good shine.



Signing of

Luv,

Zeebra's Hunt Filed under ( Cakes and Cookies )

Lozza Bloggies have this in thier list Ain’t it?.........

Bulk drafts in my blog as I was bz with my saree I cudn keep posting here now tht I finish my second one here I will surely think of being regular……This post was lying in my drafts from months yeh yeh I remember I told I wont cook ne thing vth egg or fish this month..but I nvr told I wont post ;) this is a long bac post I wud love to post now……

Most of my frenz have have followed the recipe from Deeba’s Blog and I have tried the same. Thanks Deeba. But my cake doesn have lozza stripy luk as I had prepared a small qtty. But the taste was Awesome…It just was spongy nd yummy nd lovely…and wht not?
Now I m sure I have stepped out from play school of baking to KG classes.
Happy Blogging!!



Tastes Yum Yum when u add lozza love in it.
Signing of after a big Post

Chocolate Oat Cookies Filed under ( Cakes and Cookies, Oats )

I was a kind of chocolate freak but don’t know what happened to me in some years I lost the touch taste towards  chocolates…. Last month I realized it and thought how can it happen tht I m not eating chocolates …. May be reason was I was putting few extra pounds that’s  what I realized after all the serious research ….Has something like this happened with u guys????

And during all the thought I realized its been long time I used my Oven so I got to make something yum…. Nd soon the chocolate rang the bell and I welcomed it as if it was a special guest…( it was a regular one before).

So here is some yum cookie recipe which we enjoyed each bite of it… This recipe is from one of my friend.

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I added a twist to the cookie and tht was the best part in it.

Here is the recipe:

Whole wheat flour-1/3cup

Butter-1/3cup

Grated Ginger- 1 tsp

Oats (40 gms)-3tbsp

Dark chocolate-1/3cup

Sugar-3tbsp

Method:

Cream the butter and sugar till light and fluffy.

Add wheat flour, oats and chopped dark chocolate and ginger and mix well.

Divide the mixture into equal proportions and shape into round cookies.

Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180*C for 15 mins  or till done and cool.

Enjoy each bite of cookies.

Tastes Yum Yum  when u add lozza love in it.

Till later then,

Bye,

Vanilla Sponge Cake and A Strawberry Cake - A big Hit!! Filed under ( Cakes and Cookies, Sweets and Desserts )

I always keep saying cakes I love them. We prefer spongy cakes always to the one with icing.
This was just lying down in my drafts from months never got time to post it... Now as for a month i m not gonan do ne bake with eggs i thought il post this soon...nd c now comes the time for spongy cakes.

My first cake bake was not a big hit......so wanted my Vanilla Cake to be a hit and so did it..... I know i had many fellow frenz who had lovely cake in thier blogs....but this time i wanted to c step by step method of preparing a yummy cake. I followed the recipe from here.
As i had made a small qtty i used half the quantity mentioned in itkitchen.

For the Strawberry Cake i foloowed the same procedure but when folding the mixture add a pinch or 2 of strawberry escence and before baking i added finely chopped strawberries.

And bake it at same temprature and same time....... Now u can relish the tempting cakes.

Tastes Yum Yum Face Eating Yellow Smiley Decoration Imageswhen u add lozza love Yellow Smiley Face In Love Decoration Imagesin it.
Bubye for now

Masala Biscuits Filed under ( Cakes and Cookies, From other Blogs )

It was always a dream to bake Masala biscuits at home….. But I always was hesitant even if my taste will near to the ones like City Bakery. Now u may wonder whats City Bakery…. It’s one of the famous bakery were we get the best cashew macrons, masala biscuits and The best Benne Butter (if I got to translate this it will be Butter Butter: P). Macrons ver the one vchi cud no can eat at any time….. nd these r the best ones  have tasted. Butter is like a kick to the morning tea…… I remember my school days where I used to eat countless butters with my tea…..:D nd Amma telling have limits to eat tht u even got to eat ur brkfst…………..

Ok now to these masala biscuits…….. I could never get the City Bakery taste but yeh they ver tasty without ne doubt. I remember speaking to Divya about this biscuits the day i was preparing it.... and she too wa with the same opinion tht she loves them :). 

 I adopted the masala biscuit recipe from here but I replaced curds with milk and did not add mint leaves and even added turmeric powder to gain a bit of yellow color.

• Maida - 1 cup
• Sugar - 2 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Turmeric powder-  2 pinches
• Butter - 1 stick/ 100gms
• Baking powder 3/4 tsp
• 4 green chillies chopped finely
• Curry leaves chopped
• 2” Ginger grated
• 1/2 cilantro chopped fine
• Milk 3tbsp

Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a mixing bowl. Add butter and mix till evrything mixes well. Do not knead, just shorten the mixture (until you get a bread crumb consistency).

Mix the chopped chillies, curry leaves, ginger, cilantro. Add milk and mix. Roll the dough and cut to desired shapes.

Place on a greased baking sheet 2" apart Bake at 180 degree C for 15 minutes or till done. After they cool down, store in an air-tight container. Tastes Yum Yum  when u add lozza love in it.

Bubye Folks!!!! Promise to be back soon!!! 

Signing Off,

Pineapple and Coconut Cookies Filed under ( Cakes and Cookies, Snacks )

Its been a week since I posed ne baked goodie…. So lemme do it today…….

Last week there was a 1 day workshop for cookies nd I badly wanted to go for it nd made it ne how… J J J they taught 7 type of cookies and all ver eggless …. Nd yummmmmmm. I just loved it J J J . When I was bac home I decided  to bake with different flavors… J . How about pineapple nd coconut?????????  Great idea!! Now how about cookies??? Super!!! All this was my thought….. it was a surprise for Him when he came back home…. J J J.

I do not like coconut in chocolates but I like them in cakes nd cookies…. J. I replaced condensed  milk with pineapple crush  and it tastes awesome….. I took lots of them to my SIL’s place and all there loved it J. Now I feel so so good….

Ok so lets come down to the cookies: 

Whats Needed:

2 cups sugar

6 cups self raising flour

1/2-lb. butter

1 cup pineapple crush

2 cups desiccated coconut

pinch salt

How to make Cookies:

Put butter, sugar and mix till creamy, now pour over the pineapple crush into butter nd sugar mix.

Sift the dry ingredients and then Add dry ingredients to the crush mixture and knead well. Refrigerate for half n hour. 

Roll out into small balls and press them slightly.

Bake at 180*C/350*F for around 20-25 minutes.

Remember, pineapple is a very sweet solution for your sugar cravings, which can help you stick to your weight-loss plan and forgo dessert cart. 

Pineapple is Good for Colds and Coughs. 
Pineapple Strengthens Bones.
So what all ya waiting for go get them Nd enjoy in ne form u want Pineapple Strengthens Bones.JJJ 

Super Crunchy nd Yummmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tastes Yum Yum  when u add lozza love in it.

Till Later Then, 

Signing Off,