SWEETS

 

Pastry

Dates pudding

Sliced dates                    ½ cup

Sliced raisin                   ½ cup

Sugar                              1 spoon

Butter                             1 spoon

Boiled water                  ½ cup

Maida                             1 cup

Baking powder              1 small spoon

Baking soda                  1 small spoon

Milk                                1 cup

Egg                                  1

Cornflour                     1 small spoon

Sugar                                1 ½ big spoon

Vanilla essence               ¼ spoon

Mix dates, raisins, sugar, butter and boiling water well. Add sieved maida, baking powder and baking soda and mix well. Cover the mixture with a butter paper and steam to cook.

Boil milk. Mix egg, cornflour, sugar and vanilla essence and beat well. Mix these together, put in a bowl and double boil to make it thick.  Add this to the pudding. Garnish with cherry and dates.               

Ariyunda

Roasted and ground rice flour       - 2 cups

Melted jaggery                                  - 2 cups

Nuts roasted in ghee                         - ½ cup

Hot ghee                                              - ¾ cup

Grated coconut                                   -1 cup

                    Mix the ingredients well. Shape to become round balls.

 

Easy Falooda  

Pistha ice cream                      500 ml.

Vanilla ice cream                     500 ml.

Sliced fruits                               4 cups

Sugar                                           1 spoon

Raisins & cashews          1 cup

Almonds (sliced)                      1 spoon

Basil seeds                                 4 spoons

Jam                                             4 spoons

Cherry                                         5

Tutti frutti                                  2 spoons

Soak basil seeds for fifteen minutes. After swelling, drain water. Keep aside. Mix sliced fruits with sugar and allow to cool. Take a long glass. First add one scoop vanilla ice cream. Then add one spoon jam. Next layer one spoon sliced fruits. Then layer soaked basil seeds. Then layer one scoop pistha ice cream. Then add raisins and cashews. Add tutti frutti. Repeat the layers again. Garnish with cherry and almonds on the top.

          

Chocolate Treat

Eggs                                     5

Flour                                    250 gm.

Sugar                                   250 gm.

Butter                                  250 gm.

Cocoa                                   2 table spoon

Vanilla essence                   1 teaspoon

Baking powder                    1 teaspoon

Sift flour and baking powder together. Cream butter and sugar till it becomes fluffy. Whisk egg. Add flour to it and whisk again. Add butter, sugar, vanilla essence and cocoa and whisk again. Grease a cake tin. Pour the mixture, bake at 180 degree C in a pre-heated oven for 45 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool.

              

Jackfruit Halva

Cooked & ground

Jackfruit                                   ½ kg

Jaggery                                     ¼ kg

Maida                                       1 cup

Ghee                                          1 cup

Cardamom

Powder                                     1 teaspoon

Nuts                                           ½ cup

Melt jaggery and sieve. Add ground jackfruit. Add some water to maida to make a thick paste. Mix it with jackfruit-Jaggery paste. Heat a pan. Pour the mixture. Stir well. Add ghee part by part. When it becomes thick add nuts and cardamom powder. Apply one spoon ghee to a plate and spread the mixture. Allow to cool. Cut into pieces.