Vanilla Sponge with Vanilla Icing.....!!!

My 50th Post!!!!!! And its a celebration :) :) Sponge cakes are almost everyone's favorite.... and so for my cute lil nephew's birthday I chose to make a vanilla sponge with a caramel filling and vanilla icing.... It tasted really well and the sponge with that caramel is its main attraction.... So here comes the recipe, it is a step by step procedure so be careful that you dont miss any of the steps as each of them are really important..... Try to read the full recipe twice and understand well before you start baking this.....

Preparation Time : 20 mins
Baking Time : 22 mins for each cakes
Serves : 10 

Ingredients:

Cake:
Eggs	7
Flour	1 cup
Vanilla Essence	1 tsp
Baking powder	½ tsp
Salt	¼ tsp
Granulated white sugar	1 cup
Water	2 tbsp
Lemon zest	a pinch
Caramel:
Brown Sugar	3 tbsp
Cooking cream	¼ cup
Icing:
Whipping powder	3 sachet
Cold milk	1 - 1 ½ cup
Blue color	few drops
Sugar Balls

 Method:
Cake:
1. Preheat the oven for 10 mins at 180⁰C.
2. Separate the egg whites and yolks in separate bowls and cover and bring them to room temperature. (it might take around 30 mins)
3. Meanwhile, sift the flour with baking powder,salt and keep aside.
4. Once the eggs reaches to the room temperature, place the egg yolks with 135gms of sugar and beat in an electric mixer or hand mixer until they are thick, fluffy and pale yellow in color.(when you raise the batter, it will fall in slow ribbons, this is the consistency)
5. At this point, add vanilla essence, water and lemon zest and beat again and beat until fully incorporated and keep this aside.
6. Now in another clean bowl, with the whisk attachment, beat the egg whites until foamy.
7. Now add 65 gms of sugar and beat until smooth, shiny and stiff peaks appears.
8. Next step is to mix the flour to the egg yolk mixture. Add the flour mixture into the egg yolk mixture slowly that is one third of the flour first and mix it with a spatula in large strokes(DONOT OVERDO). YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL HERE. Now add slowly rest of the flour and mix just by big stroke and completely mixed.
9. Now slowly add the beaten egg whites in the similar way step by step and donot over do. Just large strokes and mix thats it.
10. Keep your pan lined with baking sheet and pour half of the batter and bake for about 20-22 mins or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
11. Bake the second cake as well.
12. Let the cake cool for about 30 mins and take out from the pan. The upper portion might be sticky, but doesnt matter this is the way it will be.

Caramel and Icing:

1. Heat a pan and add 3 tbsp of brown sugar into it. Add 1/4 cup of cooking cream and mix well.

2. Boil this until it reaches the consistency of a caramel. Keep aside.

3. Now in a electrical mixer or hand mixer with a whisk attachment, add 3 sachets of whipping powder and 1 1/2 cup of milk and beat until stiff.

4. Now, keep the first cake layer on the tray and pour and spread half of the caramel over it.

5. Now spread some whipped cream over it.

6. Place the next layer of cake above it and pour rest of the caramel above it.

7. Spread the whipped cream over and cover the whole cake with it.

8. Now you can decorate your cake the way you like to. Add the color to the prepared whipped cream to create designs. :):)

Oats Soup with Garlic Bread.....!!!

Here is a healthy,tasty soup... This is my dad's recipe :)Its really healthy coz its made of oats and its tasty as well :) Along with that there is garlic bread recipe too.....

Preparation Time : 5 mins

Cooking Time : 15 mins

Serve : 2

Ingredients:

Soup

Water	3 cup
Oats	4 tbsp
Frozen sweet corn	½ cup
Carrot grated	½ cup
Egg white	1
Dried Parsley	1 tsp
Chicken stock	1 pack
Lemon	1
Pepper powder	1 tsp
Garlic Bread
Baguette	1 medium
Butter	50 gm
Garlic	3 cloves
Parsley	1 tsp

Method:

1. Boil 3 cups of water and add 3 tbsp of oats and boil again until it reaches the soup consistency.

2. Now add corn and grated carrot.

3. When this is cooked, add chicken stock and mix well.

4. Once this is done, add egg white above this while boiling.

5. Add dried parsley and lemon juice.

6. Add pepper powder above this and serve hot with garlic bread :):)

Garlic Bread

1. Slice the baguette and keep aside.

2. Melt little butter in a pan and saute ½ tsp grated garlic(don't need to brown), add dried parsley into this.

3. Now take out a slice and place above this and keep for 5 - 7 seconds and do the same with other side as well.

4. Continue to do the same with rest of the slices.

5. Enjoy your garlic bread :):)

Chicken Chukka....!!!

After another gap am back again :D it was another busy weeks.... Here is a spicy delicious chicken recipe.....

Preparation Time : 30 mins(including Marination)

Cooking Time : 20 mins
Serves : 4

Ingredients:

Chicken	1kg
Onions	3
Ginger	1 pc
Garlic	6 cloves
Green chilly	2
Tomato	1
Capsicum	1
Turmeric Powder	1 tsp
Coriander powder	2 tsp
Red chilly powder	1 tsp
Pepper Powder	1 tsp
Garam masala powder	1 tsp
Ketchup	1 tbsp
Salt
Oil

Method:

1. Cut the chicken into small pieces. Marinate with 1/2 tsp turmeric powder, coriander powder, red chilly powder, pepper powder, garam masala powder,salt and keep refrigerated for 30 mins

2. Heat oil in a pan and fry the marinated chicken until almost done.

3. Drain the excess oil and in the same oil saute onions with salt until transparent, don't overcook those onions since we need it crisp.

4. Add chopped ginger, garlic, green chilies and saute again for a minute.

5. Now add rest of turmeric powder,coriander powder, red chilly powder, pepper powder, garam masala powder and saute until the raw smell goes off.

6. Add tomato into this and saute again we don't need the tomatoes to be overcooked as well it must remain as big pcs.

7. Add the fried chicken and chopped capsicum into this. Add ketchup and mix well.

8. Cover and cook for 3-5 mins.

9. Serve hot with chapattis, khubus, nan... :)