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date filled bread
Ingredients
Method
2 cups flour
1.5 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
3 eggs
70 gr melted butter
2/3 cup lime juice
¾ cup sour cream
Step 1
Whisk eggs and sugar until light and creamy
Step 2
Add butter, lime juice and sour cream in turn. Whisk until they
incorporate completely.
Step 3
Sift dry ingredients to the batter and fold to reach smooth
batter.
Step 4
Let the cake bake in 175C preheated oven for 40 minutes.
Step 5
Let the cake cool in room temperature and serve with lemon curd.
chocolate mousse cake
Ingredients
Method
for the cake:
6 eggs
250gr flour
50 gr cocoa powder
160 gr hot water
200 gr sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tbsp. vanilla
18cm cake tin
for the chocolate mousse:
200 gr melted chocolate
2 egg yolk
1.5 tsp. powdered gelatin
80 gr milk
250 gr whipping cream
200 gr cream cheese
50 gr sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
¼ cup hot water
2 tbps. Nescafe
for the cake:
Step 1
Beat egg whites with 2/3 of sugar until soft peak.
Step 2
Beat 1/3 of sugar with egg yolks and vanilla until light and
creamy.
Step 3
Add oil, water and Nescafé and mix until fully incorporated.
Step 4
Sift dry ingredients to step 2 and fold gently.
Step 5
Add step 1 in three parts and fold gently until fully combined.
Step 6
Pour the batter in 18cm cake tin and let it baked in 180C
preheated oven for 45minutes.
for the chocolate mousse:
Step 1
Melt the gelatin powder with milk in the microwave or by
bain-marie method.
Step 2
By bain-marie method simultaneously mix and cook sugar, egg
yolks and vanilla to reach a stretchy mixture then incorporate
melted chocolate.
Step 3
Beat heavy cream and cream cheese for a couple of minutes.
Step 4
Mix Nescafé with hot water.
Step 5
Incorporate everything together.
Assemble
put chocolate cake in a spring cake tin and pour chocolate
mousse mixture on top of it and let it set over night in the
fridge.
dahin halwa
Ingredients
Method
2 cups flour
1 cup shredded coconut
½ cup molasses
100 gr butter
½ cup vegetable oil
1.5 cup sugar
1 tsp. cardamom
4 tbsp. saffron
4 tbsp. rose water
Walnut and shredded almond optional
Step 1
Grease bottom of your preferred pan with butter.
Step 2
Put half of the shredded coconuts and walnuts at the bottom of
your pan.
Step 3
Heat milk and sugar until sugar dissolves. Add oil, saffron and
molasses and let it boil.
Step 4
Sift flour and cardamom and add to the mixture and mix until it
thickens. Then add the butter.
Step 5
Pour halwa batter in your pan, put the remaining shredded
coconuts and almonds on top of the batter.
Step 6
Cook it in 155C preheated oven for 25 minutes. Grill top of the
halwa for 2-3 minutes until golden.