CHOCOLATE ~ CINNAMON CAKES and a Wedding Anniversary! Filed under ( Cakes and Bakes, My fav things-EVENT, Sweets and Desserts )

It's my Wedding Anniversary tomorrow and so I made these delicious little cakes...

Will be going out to celebrate, I am sooo excited!!!

These little cakes are basically feather light sponge roundels, sandwiched with cream topped with chocolate sauce and milk chocolate flakes ,Yummy! here's how I made these beauties...

                   

                                               Chocolate cinnamon Cakes

For the sponge cake-

• Eggs-4
• Sugar- 3/4 cup granulated
• Flour-3/4 cup
• Vanilla essence- 1/2 tsp
• Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp.
• Cinnamon- 1/4 tsp.ground

Method-

Separate the whites and yolks and whip whites till very stiff peaks form ,alternately add the sugar and yolks, continue beating, lastly fold in the flour lightly, turn out into a swiss roll tray and bake for 10-25 mins.., your basic sponge is ready.Cut into desired shapes.

For cream topping and filling-

• Fresh cream-2 cups
• Cocoa powder- 1 tbsp
• Confectioners sugar- 3 tbsp.

Method-

Whip cream with all the ingredients till stiff, sandwich the cake/roundels  with this and spread on top also.

for chocolate sauce and garnish-

• Melted chocolate- 3-4 tbsp.
• Bar of plain chocolate- 1

Method-

Take tablespoons and drop on the cake, take a bar of chocolate and grate on top.Your little cakes are ready!

            

These will be my entry for "my favourite things event" (check sidebar) ,JFI- Chocolate( Jihva for Ingredients - Chocolate) and to Sunita too for- Think spice-think cinnamon(http://sunitabhuyan.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-monthly-event-think-spice-think.html)

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"MY FAVOURITE THINGS" EVENT-Chocolates are calling! Filed under ( My fav things-EVENT, Trivia )

If there is something that makes me go weak in the knees-its CHOCOLATE!, wouldn't you agree! I am sure it has the same effect on so many of us, here I clicked some pictures of ONE of my all time favorites- it's good ol' Cadburys!, this is their new festive pack but inside the taste is the same- that so many of us have grown up with.

I think as a child ,all that chocolate meant to me was Cadbury's, now after all these years and all the education and brain freeze DO  I get to know that there exists-Diva and Leonidas and Belgian and Lindt and Hersheys and Mars and Ferrero Rocher and so on!!!!

It's not that I don't love these too (greedy person that I am), but there is some sentimental value attatched to a bar of Cadbury's , as a child I remember every Sunday we used to watch a movie on Television (in those days TV was a  rare commodity), since there was no cable or DVD's or anything else and every Sunday all three of us ,that is my elder sister ,myself and my younger brother were treated to a bar of Cadbury's a Coca Cola (Campa) and a packet of Uncle Chips lol :)! that was it a grand Sunday treat, no big deal Shopping malls or Play stations for us and I think we grew up just fine!

How I miss those days ,now all of us are so far apart, shall I say Oceans apart , busy in our own lives- but one thing still remains constant in my life -that is the good ol' bar of CADBURY'S CHOCOLATE.

HMMM.... KUCH MEETHA HO JAYE! THIS GOES TO MY EVENT-"THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS"                        

                           

                                   Cadbury's Celebrations Gift Pack      

Well my next post will be about Toblerone's hehe! love them all despite the battle of the bulge  (sob!) :)

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"My favourite things- Chinese food" roundup Filed under ( My fav things-EVENT )

How time flies!!!.... it has been an extremely busy month what with work taking priority over everything else and the Computer conked off and my sister in the hospital with severe gastroentritis and the maid down with jaundice!!!!!, you can only just imagine what I went through :), as a result everything else took a back seat and I ended up with a mere three posts for the entire month -sob!...and not a single one for Chinese food which I love so much ,guess will post that one after the roundup here!

Thus the delay in posting this round up and also a short break for "My favourite things event too", which really makes me sad but it will be back soon, anyways let's get down to some really fabulous Chinese here!

                             

                  Mansi Desai's superb Vegetarian Schezuan hakka noodles 

                             

                 Zlamushka's delicious Traditional Chinese leek pancakes 

                            

                          Meera's mouth-watering Tofu Hakka Noodles 

                           

                   Happy Cook's yummy Chicken and Sweet Corn Soup

                            

                                   Kalai's lip-smacking  Chilly Chicken

                             

                       Asha's must-try Chinese Chilli oil on scrambled eggs

                            

                               Easy Crafts lovely Gobhi Manchurian

                           

                      Homecooked delicious Vegetable Hot and Sour Soup 

                          

                                    Dhivya's exotic Goreng Pisang 

                            

                        Dhivya's  lovely PF Changs Vegetarian lettuce wraps

Thank you all once again for such great must-try recipes, I am drooling here!!!

                                                   What about you?????

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“MY FAVORITE THINGS”Love Heart shaped foods roundup Filed under ( My fav things-EVENT )

February was such a romantic month!, with such beautiful

 

 

  heart-shaped entries, each with a little love story of it’s own, I am simply floored…

 

 

I would like to thank each one of you for your efforts and participation and now for the roundup of this lovely event…………

AJ’S CRISPY ALU TIKKIS 

        

 

 

SITAKIRAN’S HEALTHY CARROT JUICE        

AQUADAZE’S

 

 

PECANBUTTER CAKE

 

                                                                        ARCHY’S YUMMY CHOCOLATE

COOKIES                                                                                          ASHA’S AWESOME CARROT FENNEL WALNUT CAKE                                                                                  PREETI’S BULLS EYE           CHAM’S PRETTY SAVORY PALMIERS                   MY CHOCOLATE DIPPED COOKIES

      DIVYA’S CHOCOLATE CAKE       ORIYA FOODS HEALTHY CARROT BIRYANI                                                                             EASY CRAFTS PREETY KESARI SHEERA                                                                                          MADHU’S LOVELY MARSHMALLOWS WITH HOT CHOCOLATE                               MAHIMAA’S PISTACHIO KALAKAND               NOTYET1OO’S BRUNCH OF EGG TOAST AND PEAS FRY                                                            POONAM’S DELICIOUS CHOCOLATE CARROT CAKE                                                          POORNIMA’S MANGO CHEESECAKE, YUM!  PRIYA’S CRANBERRY CORNMEAL CAKE                                                                       PRIYA’S SECOND ENTRY PINEAPPLE RICOTTA CHEESECAKE WOW!                                       AND (CLAPPING) PRIYA’S THIRD ENTRY MICROWAVE BROWNIES!                                                      RAJEES LOVELY GAJAR HALWA                                                                                         RAMYA’S SWEET LITTLEPALMIERS

                    SHOBHA’S COLOURFUL SANDWICHES                                                                                SOWMYA’S HEALTHY MINTY FRITTERS  SUMTHI’S PRETTY SAFFRON WALNUT EGGLESS CAKE

 

                                                                    SWAPNA’S AWESOME CINNAMON ROLLS                                                                      TRUPTI’S EGGLESS FRENCH TOAST 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MADHURAM’S WACKY VEGAN CHOCOLATE CAKE                                                                  once again I would like to thank you all for your love and participation and would like to apologize for lack of editing in this roundup and that the pics are posted just as you all sent them, I am facing a lot of problems with my blog writer and with my internet connection and after typing this post out at least 6 times over past few days I am finally able to post it!, thus I think I would not be able to carry on with “My favorite things” event, due to all the above reasons, though it makes me sad… one thought though would any of you take the responsibility of hosting it monthwise???…I would be really happy,do drop me a line if you would like to..

ANNOUNCING~"These are a few of my favourite things" EVENT Filed under ( My fav things-EVENT )

"This event is actually about your favourite things and sharing those favourite's with everyone!"

Looking forward to some fab innovative ideas, which we can all cook up for Christmas and New Year incidentally this is also to celebrate my 50th post today!.

MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT     CHRISTMAS AND A ROCKIN' NEW YEAR!

                                      

 

CALLING ALL CHOCOHOLICS OUT THERE!!

THEME FOR THE MONTH OF DEC 07~ CHOCOLATE,

( feel free to use the above logo!)

RULES ARE ~ IT IS PROBABLY THE SIMPLEST EVENT YOU EVER PARTICIPATED IN -JUST POST A PICTURE OF YOUR FAVORITE CHOCOLATE OR CHOCOLATES OR YOUR FAVORITE DESSERT/DISH USING CHOCOLATE/COCOA with the recipe and link it to this post,YOU CAN SEND IN AS MANY ENTRIES AS YOU LIKE , SEND IT TO ME  AT-bindiyasingh7@gmail.com BEFORE 7th January 2008 and we will be celebrating a big CHOCOLATEY NEW YEAR TOGETHER!

SOME DROOL WORTHY OPTIONS-

         

good ol' bar of chocolate                    a selection of filled chocolates

        

choc cake                                         choc pie

        

choc chip cookies                          hot choc sauce

      

choc fudge                                     choc donuts    

REMEMBER TO HAVE LOADS OF FUN DOING IT!

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