Onion Bhajiyas (Onion Fritters)

Winters have set in. In the evening you crave for everything that is hot and spicy along with a hot cup of tea or may be with a simple bowl of tamatar ka shorba.
This was one day, when I had a deep urge of making these wonderful cripsy bhajiyas to go along my hot bowl of shorba.
So I went in the kitchen wore my apron. and made these beauties in just 20 minutes.

Hope you all will enjoy making these too.

Onion Bhajiyas

Ingredients:
3-4 Onions (Finely sliced)
2 Green Chilies (Finely chopped)
1tsp Ginger (Finely chopped)
4tbsp Gramflour (Besan)
1tbsp Rice Flour
1tsp Carom seeds (aijwain)
Salt to taste
1tsp Turmeric Powder (Haldi)
1tbsp Cumin Powder
1tbsp Coriander Powder
1tbsp Mango Powder
1tbsp Garam Masala
Chat masala to sprinkle over the bhajiyas once fried.

Procedure:

• Finely slice the onions. 
• Take a bowl, add in the sliced onions, green chilies and ginger.
• Add in all the dry masalas.
• Add in the gramflour and rice flour.
• Mix 
• Gradually add in water to make the batter
• The batter should be of medium thick consistency.
• Heat oil in a kadahi.
• Add spoonfull of batter in the hot oil.
• With the help of a slotted spoon flip the pakodas.
• So that i is cooked from both the sides.
• When the bhajiya is half cooked remove them from oil.
• Press it with the back of the spoon and fry again this will make the bhajiyas really crispy.
• Do the same with the remaining batter.
• Sprinkle the bhajiyas with chat masala powder.
• Serve hot with green chutney.

Chocolate Chip Cupcake with Chocolate Ganache

Yet another Day, yet another craving for cupcakes and this time it is Chocolate.  Read somewhere:

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.” 
― Charles M. Schulza

So all the chocolate lovers gear up for this weekend and try these yummilicious cupcakes with loads of chocolate.

Chocolate Chip Cupcake with Chocolate Ganache

Ingredients:

110 gms Flour

110 gms Castor Sugar

110 gms Butter

1/4 tsp Baking Powder

30 ml Milk

2 Eggs

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

Procedure:

• ·         Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes.
• ·         In a bowl, add the flour, baking powder and keep aside.
• ·         Put the butter and sugar in a bowl.
• ·         Cream with beater till light and pale.
• ·         Add the eggs one at a time. Beat well.
• ·         Add in vanilla extract.
• ·         Gradually add in the flour, seeing that no lumps are formed.
• ·         Add in milk.
• ·         Mix it well.
• ·         Do not over beat the batter.
• ·         Pour the batter in greased and lined muffin tray.
• ·         Bake for 15-20  minutes at 160 degrees.

F       For the Icing:

     Chocolate Ganache

    Ingredients:

    100 gms Chocolate

     50  ml Cream

     Procedure:

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•     Melt the chocolate on a double boiler or you can do it in the microwave also.
•     For 30sec-1minute microwave it in the oven.
•     Fold in cream.
•    Whisk together to combine.
•     Put it in piping bag/spread it over the cupcakes.
•     After spreading the ganache, top it with whipped cream
•     I added yellow color, in the whipped cream you can choose any of the colors.
•     Decorate with sprinkles.
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Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

I am posting another awesome flavour of cupcakes. As February is approaching, Red Velvet Cupcakes  are ideal for the month of love decorated with hearts and other sprinkles.

Hoping u all will enjoy these beastly creatures a lot.

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:

125gms Flour

125gms Castor Sugar

50gms Butter

15gms Cocoa Powder

1tsp Vanilla Extract

1tsp Baking Powder

1/4tsp Baking Soda

1 Egg

Few drops Red Color

85ml Buttermilk

Few Drops of Vinegar

Procedure:

·          Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes.

·          In a bowl, mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda.

·          In another bowl cream butter and sugar till pale.

·          Add the egg beat well.

·          Then gradually add in the flour mixture.

·          Finally add the color, buttermilk and vinegar.

·          Pour the batter into the lined and grease muffin moulds.

·          Bake in an oven for 15-20minutes at 160 degrees.

For the Cream Cheese Frosting:

Ingredients:

100gms Butter

200gms Icing Sugar

50gms Cream Cheese

Food color of your choice

Procedure:

·          Beat the butter in a bowl.

·          Add in the cream cheese.

·          Then add in the icing sugar.

·          Beat till stiff.

·          You can add the food color but I have kept it white color.

·          Pipe on the cooled cupcakes.

·          Decorate with sprinkles

Vanilla Cupcakes with whipped cream and strawberries

Whenever I think of cupcakes I have this song going on in my  mind :
                                            "You're my Honeybunch, Sugarplum
Pumpy-umpy-umpkin, You're my Sweetie Pie You're my Cuppycake, Gumdrop Snoogums-Boogums, You're the Apple of my Eye These tiny creatures makes me go weak in the knees, and whenever I see them in any cake shop I just want to have all of them that results in over-eating. Since a long time I wanted to make them at home, with proper knowledge of it, so i decided to take a class, I attended Palate Culinary Studio in Mumbai, to learn the art of making the cupcakes.  It was a great experience and I learnt a lot. I made them at home, and they came out just the way I wanted them to be. Here is the recipe of Vanilla cupcakes. You can experiment it with different icings, but i chose whipped cream. Hope u will enjoy reading them and making them too.

Vanilla Cupcakes with whipped cream & strawberries

Ingredients:

110gms Flour

110gms Castor Sugar

110gms Butter

1/4tsp Baking Powder

30ml Milk

2 Eggs

1tsp Vanilla Extract

Procedure:

• ·         Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes.
• ·         In a bowl, add the flour, baking powder and keep aside.
• ·         Put the butter and sugar in a bowl.
• ·         Cream with beater till light and pale.
• ·         Add the eggs one at a time. Beat well.
• ·         Add in vanilla extract.
• ·         Gradually add in the flour, seeing that no lumps are formed.
• ·         Add in milk.
• ·         Mix it well.
• ·         Do not over beat the batter.
• ·         Pour the batter in greased and lined muffin tray.
• ·         Bake for 15-20  minutes at 160 degrees.

For the Icing:

Ingredients:

250 ml whipping cream

Food color of your choice

1tbsp Icing Sugar

1tsp Vanilla Extract

7-8 Strawberries (small)s

Procedure:

• ·         Take 250 ml of any whipping cream.
• ·         Whip the cream with the help of a beater. Make sure the cream is cold.
• ·         Add in color of ur choice, or u can leave it white also.
• ·         Put it in the piping bag.
• ·         Pipe it on the cup cakes.
• ·         Take some small strawberries, place it on the iced cupcakes.
• ·         Dust it with icing sugar