Butter Cake

Ingredients:

1.Maida 250 g
2.Butter 200 g
3.Sugar Powder 300 g
4.Baking Powder ½ tsp
5.Eggs 4 nos.
6.Milk 60 ml
7.Vanilla Essence ¼ tsp
 
Preparation
 
1.Mix the maida and baking powder .
2.Beat butter and sugar together by using an electric mixer or blender.
3.Beat the egg white and yolk separately.
4.First add yolk to the butter sugar mixture and mix it well.
5.Secondly add white of the eggs and mix it well.
6.Finally add the maida mixture, vanilla essence and milk.And mix everything thoroughly untill smooth.
7.Pour the batter into a greased baking tray.

8.Bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or till light brown.

Chocolate Ice Cream

Ingredients

Chocolate - 2 ounce

Cocoa Powder(unsweetened) - 1/3 cup

Milk - 1 cup

Egg - 2 pieces

Sugar - 1 cup

Cream (whipping) - 1 cup

Vanilla extract - 1 tsp

 

Preparation

 

1)Melt the unsweetened chocolate on top of a double boiler over hot boiling water.

2)Gradually whisk the cocoa in the heat and stir constantly until smooth. :-

The chocolate may "seize" or clump together. Don`t worry, the milk will dissolve it.

3)Whisk in the milk, a little at a time, and heat until completely blended.

4)Remove from the heat and let cool.

5)Whisk the eggs in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy for 1 to 2 minutes.

6)Whisk in the sugar, a little at a time, then continue whisking until completely blended

7)Pour the cream and vanilla and whisk to blend.

8)Pour the chocolate mixture into the cream mixture and blend.

9)Cover and refrigerate until cold for 1 to 2 hours

10)Transfer the mixture to an ice cream maker and freeze by following the manufacturer`s instructions.

Fruit Cake

Ingredients

Milkmaid Sweetened Condensed Milk - 1 tin

Allpurpose flour(Maida) - 2 cups

Butter - 100 gm

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Soda bicarbonate - 1 tsp

Aerated Soda - 150 ml

Mixed dried fruits(chopped)Cashewnuts, Almonds(Badam), Walnuts, Cherries, Orangepeel -

1 1/2 cups or 150 gm

Cinnamon(Karugapatta) powder - 1/2 tsp
Nutmeg(Jathikka) powder - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 cup or 75 gm
Water - 1/3 cup or 50
 
Preparation
 
Preheat oven to 180 degree cen.
Grease an 8" square cake tin with butter.
Heat sugar in a pan, till it melts.

Add water to make caramel syrup and keep aside.

Mix in 1 tbsp of maida to the chopped fruits to coat the fruit with the flour and keep aside.

Melt the butter in a pan.

Allow it to cool

Add milkmaid.

Sift together the maida, baking powder, sodabicarbonate, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Mix the maida with the milkmaid- butter mixture alternating with aerated soda, till both are over.

Add the caramel syrup and the chopped dry fruits and mix well.

pour into the greased cake tin and bake for 45 mins - 1 hr at 180 degree cen.

:- Preparation time - 30 - 40 mins

:- Baking time - 1 hr

Nadan Chicken Kurma

Ingredients:

•Chicken 1/2 kg
•Onion 3 big
•Tomato 3
•Ginger 1 big piece
•Garlic 4 to 6 pod
•Chilly pdr 1 1/2 Tsp
•Turmeric pdr 1/2 Tsp
•Corriander pdr 2 1/2 Tsp
•Cumin pdr 1/2 Tsp(Perumjeerakam)
•Coconut milk 2 cup
•Curry leaves
•Salt
•Oil

Preparation

Clean, wash and cut chicken into medium pieces. Heat oil in a kadai and add sliced onion, garlic and ginger. Saute well. When it turns light brown, add tomato and roast well. Remove from fire and keep it aside. After cooling down, grind half of the onion mixture. Add turmeric, chilly, corriander and cumin powder into the rest of the onion and roast well. Put chicken pieces, salt and grounded mix into this and cook well. Reduce the heat and pour the coconut milk into the curry and boil it for few minutes. Remove from fire and serve it.