Watermelon Splash

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Today after dinner I wanted to try out something new with watermelon and here is the chatpata juice i came up with.


Ingredients
1/2 Watermelon
2 Big Lemons
4 Spoon Sugar
6-7 Pudina Leaves
1/4 Spoon Chaat Masala
1/4 Spoon Jeera Powder
Pinch of Black Pepper Powder
Salt to taste

Method

• Dice the watermelon and add it to the mixer bowl.
• Add in lemon juice, sugar, pudina leaves, salt, chaat masala, jeera powder.
• Using the crushing blade let the mixture blend together in a mixie
• Pour it in glasses and sprinkle black pepper powder on top. Chill
• Garnish with small pudina leaves and small scoops of watermelon.

Notes
Since I was so waiting to drink this, to chill it faster, i kept it in fridger for 10 minutes :) Alternatively you can also use already chilled watermelon so that you dont need to wait even 10 minutes :)

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Chocolate Cake

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This week I had to bake two cakes one for fondant decoration class and one for flowers decoration class. So this is the cake i made for flowers decoration class. I wanted to decorate it with white flowers which would have tinge of pink/yellow but I ended up with bad icing.. Thats when I decorated with whatever flowers I had made over last month in the class. So here is yet another simple cake recipe that came out so well.


Ingredients
1.5 Cup Maida
1 Cup Butter
1 Cup Sugar
1 Spoon Coca Powder
1 Spoon Baking Powder
3 Eggs

Method

• Preheat oven to 325F/160C
• Sieve through maida, coca powder and baking powder in a bowl
• Add in melted butter, sugar and eggs and mix well till the mixture is uniform
• Grease the cake pan and add in the batter
• Bake at 325F/160C for 30 minutes
• Let the cake cool down the cake for 5 minutes and then take it out and cooling grid. Let it cool completely. Serve

Notes
I made two batches of this cake in a 8 inch loaf tin and them i used melted chocolate between them to make a tall rectangular cake. Covered with chocolate flavored butter icing and decorated with royal icing flowers

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Plain Cake

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I made this simple cake for my Fondant decoration class.. It tasted awesome with and without icing :)


Ingredients
5 cup Maida
2.5 Cup Butter
2.5 Cup Castor Sugar
2 Spoon Baking Powder
1.5 Spoon Lemon Juice
4 Eggs

Method

• Preheat oven to 325F/160C
• Sieve through baking powder and maida in a bowl
• Add in sugar, melted butter, lemon juice and eggs and mix thoroughly till the mixture is glossy
• Prepare a cake pan ready by greasing it. Add the batter into the pan
• Bake the cake on 325F/160C for 1 hour
• Take out of the oven and let it cool for 5 minutes and then take it out on cooling grid and let it cool completely. Decorate or serve as it is.

Notes
The cake was really ok as it is but when i decorated it, it was little extra sweet. May be next time i should reduce the sugar quantity if i am going to decorate it.

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