Mango Pickle.....!!!!

This is my mom's special pickle! This can be made as an instant pickle and it tastes soooo yummy!!! 

Preparation Time : 45 mins

Cooking Time : 15 mins

Makes : 750 gms

Ingredients:

Green Mango	5
Asafoetida/Hing powder(Kaayam)	1 tsp
Fenugreek seed powdered (Uluva podi)	1 tsp
Red Chilly Powder	3 tbsp(as your taste)
Mustard seeds	1 tsp
Salt
Vinegar
Sesame Oil

Method:

1. Wash the mangoes thoroughly and clean them.

2. Chop this into small pieces.

3. In a clean bowl add the chopped mangoes and salt as per taste and mix and set aside for 10 mins

4. Now heat oil in a pan and sputter the mustard seeds.

5. Off the flame and add fenugreek powder and asafoetida.

6. Once it has cooled down add the red chilly powder and chopped mangoes.

7. Heat a little vinegar and pour above this and mix all together.

8. Store this in a water free container. You dont have to refrigerate it for the first 2 days. Later you can refrigerate. Enjoy with hot rice or chapatti :) 

Strawberry Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting!!!!

Here is the recipe of a yummy fruit cake!! This was my first order from my friend :) Sorry since it was an order i couldn't take a sliced pic..This is an easy cake to make.... I made the cake as a whole and then cut into equal halves... You can bake it as 2 different cakes as well.... The filling is the same frosting plus some fresh sliced strawberries.... Try to use fresh strawberries for this cake coz it gives way lot better taste than frozen ones.... As its season here i could find some good ones :)

Preparation Time : 15 mins

Baking Time ; 35 - 40 mins

Serves : 12 - 14

Ingredients:

For Cake:
All purpose flour	3 cups
Powdered Sugar	2 cups
Butter (room temperature)	1 cup
Oil	½ cup
Eggs	4
Baking Powder	1 ½ tsp
Fresh Strawberry Puree	1 cup
Vanilla essence	1 tsp
Strawberry essence	1 ½ tsp
For Icing:
Whipping cream	4 sachets
Cold Milk	1 cup
Cream Cheese	250 gms
Vanilla Essence	1 tsp
Strawberry essence	1 tsp
Sugar balls ( Optional)
Color Red ( Optional)

Method:

Cake:

1. Preheat the oven at 200 C for 10 mins

2. Sift the flour and baking powder and keep aside. 

2. Now in a bowl beat together butter, oil and sugar until creamy.

3. Now add eggs one at a time and beat well.

4. Add vanilla and strawberry essence and mix well.

6. Add the flour mixture into this and fold in.

7. Now add the fresh strawberry puree into this and mix until incorporated.

8. Pour the batter into a single greased pan or 2 similar pans.

9. Bake the cake at 165 C for 35 - 40 mins or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

10. Once done cool the cake completely before frosting it.

Icing:

1. Beat the whipping cream with cold milk until fluffy and stiff.

2. Add the cream cheese into this and beat.

3. Add in the essences.

4. Refrigerate this for sometime.

5. Now if you have a big cake cut it into equal halves.

6. Above the bottom layer brush in some sugar syrup to give the cake a nice moist texture.

7. Now spread some frosting over it.

8. Arrange the freshly sliced strawberries over it.

9. Now place the second layer over this.

10. Apply the sugar syrup and frosting and design as per ur wish....!!

11. Enjoy the yummy yummy strawberry cake :) :)