FEBI'S COOK BOOK

Last week something caught my attention on FB.. Home Bakers Challenge it was, a group in which members take up the challenge of baking different baked goodies. After having seen some of the pictures posted by different members of the group, floating on FB, I begged the admin to add me as well in the same group. She accepted my request and told me that , I can take up the challenge from next month on-wards. But I got very impatient with the chocolate bread rolls, which was the latest challenge. I browsed one of the member's recipe and made the dough accordingly but designed it in the form of a crescent roll. The filling was of chocolate in the recipe, but I tried with chocolate, peanut butter, a mix of both and mozarella cheese... The scent of the baked dough wafting through the house was amazing and I couldn't resist myself till it got baked. This dough served as an all-rounder in my kitchen that day... Made 16 crescent rolls.. With the remaining dough I made pizza l

Lately sweet  cravings have been binding me so badly. So much so that I cant resist myself, even at late nights, crawling into the kitchen silently and stealing a piece from the fridge... When I was pregnant, I wonder, how hatred towards sweets, over-flooded in me. My most favorite ice-creams and chocolates became my worst enemies... After 9 months of pregnancy, all the sweet cravings bounced back with double strength. Having ice-creams with chocolate sauce, stealing one extra scoop when all are asleep, browsing madly pages over pages to drool over those yummy flavors and sauces of ice-creams, really going mad these days... Recently I discovered a page  Sally's Baking Addiction , which was the most fantastic one I've ever found. Perfect for my cravings, the page is loaded with baked goodies and drool- worthy sweet treats... After having found a granola recipe on the page, I simply couldn't release myself from staring at it, and made it as soon as possible, to put down

The much awaited Tiramisu recipe is here. I will be preparing the egg-less version. The actual recipe calls for separated eggs beaten and then combined and then mixing with mascaporne cheese ... As there is no cooking eggs process involved, I am not so fond of this method... So I prepared without eggs, involving custard prepared from custard powder. The steps are easy if you have all the contents handy. It only requires sponge biscuits, the mascaporne-custard mixture, some strong coffee and cocoa for dusting... And then all you need to do is assembling... While you prepare the filling , see to that the cheese is at room temperature, so that mixing becomes a lot easier and the filling looks smooth. Sponge finger biscuits- This forms the base of Tiramisu Mascaporne cheese- one of  the main ingredients in Tiramisu Ingredients: Filling: Milk - 1 1/2 cups Custard powder- 3 Tbsp Mascaporne cheese- 2 cups Base: Strong coffee- For soaking sponge fingers F

 Savoiardi or sponge finger biscuits, is one of the main ingredient in Italian dessert Tiramisu. It serves as the base in Tiramisu and is soaked in strong coffee. I came across this recipe when I was looking for home-made mascaporne cheese recipe. When I came across this recipe along with the cheese one, I got super excited. I started looking forward for a complete home made Tiramisu. Also if these are super easy to make at home, then why spend extra money... All you need is a set of few ingredients.. Mix and pipe fingers onto cookie sheet... It gets baked in 10-15 minutes... And then it is done.. Also its not readily available every where and if you are a fan of Tiramisu then today onwards there is nothing  to stop you from enjoying it, everything can be made at home, mascaporne and biscuits. Yippiee... Or if you simply want to enjoy it with a cup of tea/coffee, then that is a good option too... With the given quantity of ingredients you get quite a lot of biscuits. B

I love Tiramisu, an Italian dessert. But the main ingredient in a Tiramisu is mascaporne cheese, which is quite expensive. Fortunately, to my surprise, I came to know that mascaporne cheese can be made at home and it sounded so easy, in fact it is easy. All you need is cream and lemon juice and it is done. I will also be posting the recipe of sponge finger biscuits, used as a base in the Tiramisu. After all there is nothing more satisfying than homemade, right? After making the sponge biscuits, a complete home-made Tiramisu will be ready I will be preparing eggless version, as the thought of raw eggs doesn't sound so nice to me. But the authentic recipe calls for eggs and alcohol in it and I will be skipping the alcohols too... finger biscuits just out of the oven Ingredients: Heavy cream- 2 cups Lemon juice- 3 tbsp. Method: Heat cream on medium low flame When it starts to boil, add lemon juice. Once you add lemon juice, the cream starts to coat t

I must say this is my third attempt in making this roll cake for it cracked while rolling, in all my previous attempts, despite following the instructions carefully... I remember in my childhood eating this cake, then called in my family as, spring roll cake with jam spread inside. So I seeked my mothers advice on this... She said roll the cake before it goes too dry.. This sounded reasonable. The actual recipe calls the cake to be rolled while its hot and cooled while its rolled. But this didn't work for me. So I spread the frosting 5 minutes after I got it out from the oven and rolled it while it was still slightly warm.. This way it works perfectly right. The next trick is not to over bake it. It will hardly take 10 minutes and if the sides start turning brown, take it immaediately out of the oven. It bakes incredibly fast as the cake batter is of very thin layer . So keep an eye on your oven while your cake is getting baked and have your frosting ready before you prep

 No time for write-ups and I am not good at it too... And my coming posts will be the same way too... Praying I find time and master writing skill too... Jumping straight into the recipe... Yummilicious Indian Icecream, KULFI....yum yum yum...   INGREDIENTS: 1 litre full fat milk 200 ml condensed milk 1 pinch of saffron 2 teaspoons milk 1 tablespoon pistachios (chopped) METHOD: Pour milk in a large heavy-based saucepan and place pan on medium high heat till the milk boils Reduce heat and let the milk simmer uncovered, stirring continuously Cook the milk till it is reduced to almost half, stirring all the time This is to prevent skin forming on the milk As the milk reduces, you will notice a thick creamy residue sticking to the sides of the pan. Scrape this back into the milk and stir to dissolve When the milk is reduced to half, take it off the heat and cool slightly. Stir to prevent skin from forming When

   Here is something versatile. A simple breakfast, a snack, a sweet and so much more... Very easy to make. No chances of going wrong. And all you need to do is spread roll, dip and fry.. And for final touch up dust it with cinnamon sugar... And you won't believe the end result... Every bite offers you an explosion of chocolate in your mouth and a crunch of crispy bread toasted in butter... The scent of butter and cinnamon spreads the whole house and nothing is more welcoming than that... Ingredients: Bread slices- Crust removed Nutella- to spread Sugar- 2 tbsp. Cinnamon- 1 tbsp. or less or more Butter - to fry- approx. 50 gms Eggs - to dip the rolls milk - 2 tbsp. for every one egg Method: Flatten the slices using a rolling pin... You can skip this step if you want Spread a generous amount of nutella. No need to spread till the edges.. Its better only to spread over half of the slice. Roll the bread slices and seal with a small amount of nutella. Repeat t

 I think I have met the love of my life... This is truly something I wanted, with luscious, rich, smooth and creamy filling... A perfect dessert to enjoy on a lazy evening...  To improvise the look of my cheese cake, I added whipped cream rosettes and chocolate lace wraps, on which I have been watching videos over videos in Youtube to bring out the best possible results. I must say despite of my effort and practice I haven't been able to master this art, and if  you have noticed you can see patchworks here and there. I did not find it as easy as done or mentioned my fellow blogger friends...This was the third time I am trying to design a cake lace wrap and I was far better than last time when I had the parchment paper on which I designed the lace went soggy and failed to stick around the cake. I must definitely do a deep study on this to find out the places where I went wrong, wheather it is the quality of chocolate, or parchment or my lose of  knack...    To add t