Gulab Jamun with Bisquick Mix

A simple and easy way to make these yummy gulab jamuns with the pan cake mix/ Bisquick Mix. Hope you like the recipe.

Ingredients:

Bisquick or Pancake mix 1 Cup 

 Milk Powder 2 Cups

 Butter slightly melted: 1/4 Cup

Milk: 2 Tablespoons

Cardamom powder: 1/2 teaspoon

1.5 cups sugar for sugar syrup

Oil for deep frying

Method


Knead the dough using bisquick Mix, milk powder, melted butter and milk. Dough should be soft to hard but not sticky.
Divide into equal portions and shape into 1" diameter. These should have no cracks on the surface as otherwise the gulab jamuns will crack while frying.

For sugar syrup in a large pan, dissolve the sugar in 2 cups of water and bring to a boil.
Take sugar and water in a sauce pan, bring it to boil. Simmer it for 5 to 8 mins till it gets little sticky. Dont need for the syrup to reach 1 string.
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Remove any impurities which float on top of the syrup using a  spoon.
Add  cardamom powder and keep the syrup warm.

Heat oil in a kadai. Add the balls.Deep fry on low-mediumheat till golden in colour. 

Drain and immerse in the warm sugar syrup. Soak for atleast 1 hour.

Marble cake recipe (chocolate & vanilla flavor)♥♥

This valentine is dedicated,♥♥♥
to the one who stays besides me.
to the one i hold , like a teddy bear.
to the one who smiles at me when i do craziest things.♥
What love truly means.....
to the one who has my heart.
to the one whom I never want to be apart.
to the one who will remain alwaz wid ma soul.
♥♥Happy Valentine’s Day to my beloved honey bunny...

This time i made marble cake & nan khatai for my valentine..:)♥

I baked this cake for the 1st time & it was superb.. It is soo simple recipe, tasty & the aroma is soo good...& more over it takes less time to prepare.... Who doesn’t love cakes...from kids to elder everyone is cake lover..So today I m going to share a yummy delicious marble cake.. A very simple & nice to eat.. which is very easy to do & tasty too...A homemade cake can easily compete with any other cake available in market..right???

Ingredients:

• 2  cups all purpose flour
• 2 tblsp cocoa powder
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 4 eggs
• 1 stick unsalted butter melted
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp orange zest
• 1tsp vanilla extract
• ½ cup orange juice
• Mix of Coffee powder + cinnamon powder + sugar ( 3 tblsp)
• Chopped roasted walnuts (optional)

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 180 degree.

• In a big bowl take the melted butter, sugar, eggs. Now using electric beater beat them until they turns to a smooth & creamy. 

• Now add orange zest, orange juice & vanilla extract. Again beat them.

• In a separate bowl add flour, baking powder, salt & sieve. Mix in the wet and dry ingredients.

• Divide the mixture by half into two separate bowls. Gently fold the cocoa powder into one half of the mixture. Take the baking tray. Grease it. Drop each cake mixture into the prepared tin, alternating between the white & chocolate mixture. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar mixture on the top. Add the roasted walnuts.
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• Preheat the oven to 180 degree. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes (Baking time may be different for different ovens) or until firm and a knife/ toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.
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• Leave in the tin for 5 minutes, then turn out and cool on a wire rack. Your yummy cake is now ready to serve.....

• As I was preparing it for valentine day so I cut the cake using this cutter & decorated it with some chocolates...my cake is now ready. 
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• Also I made my hubby's fav. cholle Bhatore  for dinner & he just loved it....

sending this to Cooking with Love-Spouse hosted by http://h4hemh4help.blogspot.com, Lets Cook/Bake for Valentines hosted by http://www.simplysensationalfood.com & to http://riappyayan.blogspot.com/2012/01/announcement-of-my-event-spotlight.html, Spotlight : Valentine's Treat hosted by http://cuisinedelights.blogspot.in, BAKE FEST # 16 hosted by http://bestofmykitchen.blogspot.in & Vardhini's Bake Fest 

Chocolate cookies

Say Good bye to the packaged cookies & say hello to the fresh cookies from your own oven...I baked some chocolate cookies using the traditional cookie recipe..You can make this recipe in a matter of minutes..This is a super easy recipe that yields very satisfactory results. Here is my homemade cookie to munch on with afternoon tea.

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 stick unsalted butter
1 tablespoon baking powder
2 cups powdered sugar
½ teaspoon salt
¾ cup cocoa powder
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. 
Mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt into a bowl and set aside.
Melt butter in room temp. With a hand mixer beat together the butter, eggs, sugar and vanilla on medium-high speed until light & fluffy. 
Combine the dry ingredients until just combined. Gradually blend in to creamed mixture.


Fill a 1/4 cup ice cream scoop with dough; drop the dough onto a prepared cookie sheet, leaving 3 inches between the cookies. 


Bake the cookies until they are done for  about 10-14  minutes (don’t over bake) . 




Cool on wire racks & then serve... You can keep them in a air tight container & njoy with hot hot tea..:)

sending this to Spotlight : Valentine's Treat hosted by http://cuisinedelights.blogspot.in &  original spotlight announcement link

HappY New Year Friends...

A NEW YEAR A New Challenge 

A New Goal
A New Optimism
A New Aproach
... A New Mission
A New Resolution
Wishng U a very
"Happy New year"In Year 2012 may God...would be your Best Friend,He Loves you Deeper, always Bless on You ,God Always Guide You & Carry you...Happy New Year friends...

My 3rd Marriage anniverasry celebration (MY 1st handmade Icing cake & Card)

Hi friends I love to share  about  special experiences of my 3rd anniverasry which was on 23rd nov.

this time I am in US, so I decided to ease things by doing the cake at home & to give a surprise to my hubby dear.

My 1st Handmade cake..:)

Surprise for my husband..:) decoration , cake & card..:)

HappY DiWali To all my Friends..:)

Wish u and your family a very happy diwali . May God fulfill all your wishes in wealth, health & happiness in your life.

As the candlelight flame,
Ur life may always be happiness' claim;
As the mountain high,
U move without sigh;
like the white linen flair,
Purity is always an affair;
As sunshine creates morning glory,
fragrance fills years as flory;
with the immaculate eternal smile,
attached to u mile after mile;
All darkness is far away,
As light is on its way;
Wish all of u a very happy diwali.

I m feeling too lonely & depressed as this year is my first Diwali away from India. I have been missing many things about India since I have landed in US. But I m really missing my family & my pune friends who were always aroud. Generally speaking, its a bit hard to connect with culture and events in a foreign land. But what is even harder, is to get disconnected from your roots, things on which you have really grown up, events you like to follow and people you enjoy meeting. Just saying Happy Diwali here to one another...lets make this Diwali cheerfull and wonderfull by being with each other,may be virtually!!

May the festival of lights be the harbinger of joy and prosperity. As the holy occasion of Diwali is here and the atmosphere is filled with the spirit of mirth and love, here's hoping this festival of beauty brings your way, bright sparkles of contentment, that stay with you through the days ahead.
Best wishes on Diwali and New year. chalo friends kuch mitha hojaye..:)

Happy Janmastmi to all my friends (celebrating Janmastami with Boondi laddus)

Radha Ramana Hari govind bolo, Govind bola hare Gopal Bolo’. May Lord Krishna fill your life with peace & Happiness on Janmashtami .. Wish you a Happy Janmashtami ...

Ingredients:

1 cup Besan

1 pinch Kesar

1 pinch Cardamom powder

1 tbsp Rice flour

1 pinch Baking Powder

1 tbsp Melon seeds

1 tbsp Broken Cashew nut

2 cups Sugar

1 cup Water

Oil for deepfrying the boondis

Method:

Crack open the cardamom pods and remove the seeds. Crush the seeds and keep aside.

Mix the flour, rice flour, baking powder and colour to make a smooth pancake-like batter or slightly thicker than dosa batter.

Make a smooth thick batter. Heat the oil.

Take the batter and pour it over a sieve with round holes (The critical part of boondi making is to use the right kind of utensil for the batter to drop through the holes into the hot oil to form the little pearl shaped fried balls .To accomplish this you need to use a flat skimmer, strainer or perforated ladle that has several round holes on the surface, each about the size of a whole black peppercorn).

Tap it gently with a spoon so that small balls of dough fall into the oil. Fry them until the sound of sizzling stops and boondis are light gold in color but not crispy!

Make the balls and keep aside. Put the water and sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil on medium-high heat. When the syrup comes to a boil, turn the heat down to medium and stir to dissolve the sugar. Heat the sugar and water till reaches 1/2 thread consistency.

In the sugar syrup mix kesar & melon seeds, cardamom powder and fried boondies. When the mixture is still warm make into balls, don’t let them to cool off (If the mixture cools balls cannot be made as the sugar crystallizes).

To make the ladoos, scoop up some of the boondi mixture into your palm with a spoon.

Gently squeeze the mixture between both palms to shape into a round ball about the size of a golf ball. As you are squeezing some of the syrup will come out. 

You can make the ladoo larger or smaller if you have a preference.

Your  boondi laddo is reday to serve now.