Triple Decker New Year Cake

Ingredients :

1. Plain Flour/Maida - 3 cups

2. Butter - 1 & a 1/2 cup

3. Powdered Sugar - 1 cup

4. Eggs - 3

5. Orange juice - 3 tbsp.

6. Orange Food Colour - a pinch

7. Cocoa Powder - 1 tbsp.

8. Baking Powder - 1 & a 1/2 tsp.

9. Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp.

For the Frosting :

1. Icing Sugar - 1 cup

2. Chocolate - I used a small packet of Kit Kat

3. Cocoa Powder - 1 & a 1/2 tsp.

4. Horlicks Nutribar

Method :

1. Mix the butter and sugar together. Keep stirring till you get a creamy mixture.

2. Separate the egg whites and egg yolks, and whisk the egg whites for a few minutes.

3. Add the egg yolks and the egg whites to the butter mixture and stir properly.

4. Now divide this mixture into three parts.

5. Separately, add baking powder to flour and mix properly.

6.

For the Cocoa Layer : Add cocoa powder

For the Vanilla Layer : Add vanilla essence

For the Orange Layer : Add orange juice and food colour

7. Stir well, add milk and/or water to this and continue stirring till you get a semi solid mixture.

8. Now I coudn't fit in all the three layers in my baking tin, so i first baked two layers, and then the third, and then placed the third on top of the other cake.

You can bake all the three layers together. Pour them separately to the baking tin.

9. I baked in my OTG at 140 degree celcius for 30 minutes. the temperature and time may vary according to your oven.

10.After it's done(toothpick test - it should come out clean), let it stay in the oven for 5 minutes.

11.Let it cool.

For the frosting :

1. Heat the chocolate, icing sugar and cocoa powder.

2. Spread this mixture on the cake and top with nutribar pieces.

Happy New Year :-)

Indizones with sauce

Ingredients :

For the dough :

1. Plain Flour - 1 and 1/4 cup

2. Red Chilli Powder - 3/4 tsp.

3. Salt - 1 tsp.

4. Vegetable Oil or Butter - slightly less than 1/4 cup

5. Yeast - 1 tbsp.

6. Water - 1/2 cup

For the stuffing :

1. Chopped Onion - 1

2. Chopped Garlic - 4 cloves

3. Chopped Ginger - 1 inch piece

4. Chopped Tomato - 1 big

5. Chopped Capsicum - 1/2

6. Red Chilli Powder - 1 tsp.

7. Garam Masala Powder - 1 tsp.

8. Corriander Powder - 2 tsp.

9. Cumin Seeds(Jeera) - 1 tsp.

10.Salt

For the sauce :

1. Black peppercorns - 1 tbsp.

2. Dry Red Chillies - 5 small

3. Salt - 1/2 tsp.

4. Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tbsp.

5. Soy Sauce - 2 tbsp.

6. Oil - 1 tbsp.

Method :

For the dough :

1. Heat the water. Let it come to a boil.

2. Add yeast to this and let it rest for 10 minutes.

3. Mix together the flour, red chilli powder, salt, oil and the yeast mixture.

4. Make a soft dough and cover it with a damp cloth. Keep aside for 30 minutes.

For the stuffing :

1. In a pan, heat 1 tsp. oil and add the cumin seeds.

2. When they splutter, add the onions, ginger, garlic and fry till the onions turn light brown.

3. Add red chilli powder and corriander powder. Fry for a while.

4. Add tomato,capsicum,salt and garam masala powder. Add 2 tbsp. of water and cook for a few minutes. Let the water evaporate.

For the sauce :

1. Dry roast the peppercorns and salt.

2. Separately, heat oil in a pan and add the seeds of the red chillies and ginger garlic paste.

3. Add to this, the pepper mixture and soy sauce.

4. Cook for 2-3 minutes.

1. Roll the dough into one large circle, make 4 equal partitions/zones and keep the stuffing on each partition.

2. Bring together the edges of a partition/zone and make any shape you like.

3. Pre-heat the oven at 180 degree celcius for 5 minutes.

4. Grease the tray and bake the Indizones at 200 degree celcius for 10 minutes. They should turn brown.

5. Let them rest in the oven for 5 minutes.

6. Serve with the sauce.

This is an Indianized version of 'Calzones'. The sauce is a recipe from Masterchef Australia. Do tell me how it turns out :)

Corn Cakes ( from Masterchef India)

Ingredients :

1. Corn Kernels - 100g

2. Rice Flour - 1/2 cup

3. Green Chillies - 2

4. Curd - 4 tbsp.

5. Ginger - 1/2 tsp.

6. Grated Coconut - 2 tbsp.

7. Salt

8. Milk - a little

Method :

1. Boil the corn kernels and grind into a paste. The paste need not be fine.

2. Add to this, rice flour, chillies, curd, ginger, coconut and salt.

3. Add a little milk to remove the dryness of the mixture.

4. Grease a vessel, transfer the mixture to this vessel and steam it for 25-30 mins.

5. Make small ovals or rectangles out of the steamed mixture and roll them in rice flour.

6. Shallow fry these cakes and enjoy :-)