A rich chocolate cake for special occasions with rich chocolaty frosting. You can’t go past maltersers Chocolate Cake recipe, which is a perfect treat for kids. This recipe is taught by Zarnak Sidwa. Hope you will try it 🙂

INGREDIENTS FOR CAKE:

INGREDIENTS FOR FROSTING:

METHOD:

• Pre heat Oven at 150c. Grease 8 inch pan.
• In a bowl add eggs, brown sugar and castor sugar. Beat well.
• In a pan add milk, Horlick and butter. On low flame just melt butter. Milk should not boil. After dissolving ingredients, remove from flame.
• Stir to release heat from milk mixture. Let it warm.
• Add in egg mixture with light hands. Beat well.
• Sieve soda, baking powder, cocoa powder and flour and mix in egg mixture. Beat well.
• Transfer in baking pan and bake for 25 minutes approx.
• In a bowl add icing sugar, cocoa, Horlick and butter. Beat well.
• Keep in refrigerator for few minutes, it will set and you can easily spread.
• Cool down cake completely and cut from center and spread frosting in between.
• Cover cake with frosting and Let it set in refrigerator for few minutes.
• Garnish with Maltesers.

• Serve with Coffee 🙂

Light and airy cake with crushed almonds inside and mango glaze on top. A perfect bakery style cake with a cup of evening tea.

INGREDIENTS:

METHOD:

• Sift flour and baking powder. Set aside.
• Melt ghee and let it cool.
• In a bowl add sugar and melted and cooled ghee. You can add butter also but no need to melt it. Beat well.
• Now add eggs and beat.
• Add vanilla essence, salt and milk. Beat.
• Add flour in it. Fold it in batter. Add crushed almonds in batter. Pour in a pan.
• In pan place a butter paper and grease it.
• After pouring cut almonds from center, arrange on batter.
• You can add cocoa powder if you want chocolate flavor almond cake.
• Bake at 180c for 25 minutes or till done.
• Take a small packet of mango juice and pour in a pot, add sugar and mix well. Now cook till sugar dissolve.
• Mix corn flour in water and add in juice. Make a thick sauce. Let it cool completely in refrigerator.

• Take out cake from mold do not remove butter paper from side of cake and spread sauce on top  let it set for 1/2 hour and serve.

• Enjoy this moist and delicious cake.

An excellent recipe by Chef Arshad, soft sponge covered in butterscotch icing, dripping with a rich, butterscotch sauce that will make your mouth water.

INGREDIENTS FOR SPONGE:

METHOD:

• In a large bowl add sugar and eggs, beat for 3-4 minutes or till fluffy. They will become double in volume and foamy. Add vanilla essence and mix well.
• Add flour and baking powder, first sieve it.
• Now use spatula to mix flour with light hands.
• Divide batter in two 8″ pans and bake at 180c in preheated oven.
• Let it cool completely.

• Watch video of making sponge.

INGREDIENTS FOR BUTTER SCOTCH:

METHOD:

• Melt sugar in pan on low flame, add butter when sugar melt.
• Add crushed nuts and mix well.
• Grease a plate or butter paper and pour this mixture on it, spread it and let it cool completely.
• It will become hard, break in small pieces and than use rolling pin to make crunch.
• You can store in a jar on room temperature also.

INGREDIENTS FOR BUTTER SCOTCH SAUCE:

METHOD:

• In a pan melt sugar till light brown, add butter and salt very carefully and stir for few seconds.
• Mix milk and cream in a cup and add in caramel. Stir continuously till become thick.
• Let it cool completely.

ASSEMBLING:

• Mix  2-3 tbsp condensed milk in 1 cup water, Divide cake into two halves.
• Soak cake with milk.
• Beat cream by adding butter scotch sauce 3-4 tbsp in it.
• Now spread cream on one half and spread Butter scotch, butter scotch sauce and pineapple chunks (optional , not in original recipe but i like to add) on it, cover with the second half of the cake and cover with cream.
• You can make three or four layer cake as per your requirement.
• Top your cake with butter scotch sauce and keep in refrigerator for few hours.
• Enjoy delicious cake with your family.
• I have made this cake on my Wedding Anniversary.
• Made a prop 🙂

• Hand made card for my husband.

One of a very delicious and easy cake recipe. A classical combination of light Chocolate Cake and Rich frosting. Decorate it with Malted Balls or Fondant flowers, as I have done 🙂

INGREDIENTS FOR CAKE:

METHOD:

• Preheat oven at 150c and grease cake pan.
• In 1 cup milk add 1 tsp vinegar and mix well. set aside.
• In a bowl add all dry ingredients. Flour, sugar, malt powder, Cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Mix well.
• Now add all wet ingredients, eggs, milk, oil, vanilla essence and beat with electric beater or use hand whisk. Mix well.
• Pour batter in pan and bake at 180c till a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Let it cool completely.
• Remove from pan and divide in two halves.
• Spread frosting on cake and place another half on top. Cover cake with frosting.
• You can decorate cake with fondant flowers, like I did or use malted balls or fingers to decorate it.

INGREDIENTS FOR FROSTING:

METHOD:

• In a bowl beat butter, icing sugar till creamy, now add cream cheese, cream, malt powder and cocoa.
• Beat again till frosting become hard.
• Keep in refrigerator. Take out when needed.

You can watch Video Here:

I found this recipe very different and easy. This is no fail recipe and cream cheese and Nutella filling will give a different and delicious taste to your cake. A perfect cake for your love ones.

INGREDIENTS:

METHOD:

• Preheat Oven at 150 C
• Mix all dry ingredients and set aside.
• In a bowl add eggs, sugar and oil. Beat well till fluffy now add yogurt and mix.
• Now add essence and flour mixture. Fold with spatula.
• Pour in pan and bake at 180c till done.
• Let it cool completely and divide in three parts.
• Soak with sugar syrup and prepare cream filling.
• In a bowl add cow cream cheese, icing sugar and butter, beat on slow speed till creamy.
• Add nutella chocolate and mix with spatula.
• Now spread this mixture on each half and in the end spread Ganache on top of the cake.
• Garnish with Chocolate curls and serve.

• Watch this video for more details.

My last post was about making flowers from Cream. Now i am posting about coloring them, how to color cream flours and give them neat and attractive look.

You can check the link below to Learn how to whip cream and make flowers from cream:

HOW TO MAKE FLOWERS

• Take a cup of cornflour and add food color in it.
• You can add any color, liquid or powder. In powder add few drops of water and mix, add in cornflour.
• Mix well. You can add color according to your choice.
• Now let it dry completely.
• Sieve it with muslin cloth , you can use strainer also but it will not give a good result.
• Now take a drop bottle like rose water drops bottle. Fill in powder and spray on flowers.
• Watch video for clear understanding.

This is a very useful post for all beginners who want to make perfect cream cake at home. Very useful tips are given by Chef Arshad and chef Naeem. I hope you will like it.

I am sharing my tips here first.

• Place cream in freezer for 15 minutes before use.
• Beat first than add icing sugar and liquid color.
• If you have powder color, mix in 1/2 tsp water and add in cream.
• In most of the cities Whipy whip cream is not available which chef has shown ask from bakeries from your cities for packed whip cream, this imported cream is available these days.

Watch the video and learn how to whip cream.

Its not an easy job to make a 3D Cream Cake Specially in hot summer. Hats off to Rubi Jan for making an awesome Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Tomb and a floral fence over it.

This cake was selected by judges in Top 5 recipes.

She just made sponge and apply cream and made 3D tomb and pillars.

This cake is designed by Hadi Malik for Vim foodie contest. She made it beautifully and she had used one toothpick to give shades to eagle.

She was among the Top five recipes selected by judges.

INGREDIENTS FOR SPONGE:
125 grms maida
125 grms suger
6 eggs
vanilla essence 1tsp
METHOD:
Beat eggs and sugar till fluffy.

Add sieved flour in it. Fold it and bake at 180c. Make 2 sponges.

Let them cool completely.

GLAZE / GEL
کورن سیرپ یا گلوکوز سیرپ…1/4 کپ  Corn syrup or glucose
کارن فلور 2 کهانے کے چمچ   corn flour
ٹهنڈا پانی.آدها کپ  cold water
جیلیٹن 1 کهانے کا چمچ Gelatin powder
فوڈ کلر yellow,blue  Food color

Mix corn flour in water, add gelatin and corn syrup or glucose.

Cook till thick consistancy obtained.

Add Food color and use on Cake.
ASSEMBLING OF CAKE
Cream 500 grams

Beat cream till double in volume. Add icing sugar if required.

Cut cake in two halves and apply cream, place another piece and apply cream.

Cover cake with cream and make eagle with tooth pick. Make patterns with colored mixed cream.

This beautiful cake is made by Saubia Sohail. She designed this cake very neatly and Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s portrait shows her hard work. She is the second winner of Vim contest.

Check her recipe and give your feedback.

INGREDIENTS:

Butter 6 oz

Sugar 6 oz

Flour 6 oz

Eggs 3

Vanilla essence 1 tsp

Baking powder 1. 5 tsp

Milk 1\4 cup

Green food color

Method:

Beat butter till creamy then add sugar and beat well .

Add eggs one by one and beat well . Add one tbsp of flour after each egg .

Add vanilla essence and remaining flour and fold with spatula or use beater at slow speed .

Add milk alternatively with flour and pour this mix in greased pan .

Bake it in preheated oven for 30 – 35 min at 180 degrees .

Make four cakes two green and two plane .

Cut each cake in three rings and set them in alternate colors .

Layer up all cakes and cover with cream.

Draw the image on butter paper draw with cream on it and cool it then put it on cake and transfer it on cake .

Decorate it with cream .