Support for ANNA!

With the entire nation supporting Anna Hazare, there are loads of humourous messages and jokes doing the rounds on the internet...

I totally support Anna and his movement, but just thought of having a little bit of photoshop fun!

Chocolate Eggs II

The two chocolate eggs in a chocolate basket!

I decorated the boring egg finally, and also made another one filled with some soft butterscotch flavoured chocolate. In addition I made the nest also with chocolate this time and filled it with loads of sliced almonds! The nest was definitely the best looking part!

The one filled with creamy butterscotch chocolate

The one with the MnM

The chocolate basket or nest is very easy to make and can be used for presenting any sort of chocolate dipped fruits, candies, dry fruits, etc. The main idea is to have different colors so that the "weave" shows.
Its simply made by covering a bowl with foil and making patterns on it!

Edible Nest!

White Chocolate Egg on a Caramel Nest

This is one of my favourite creations till date! The caramel nest is fairly easy to make- its plain sugar, and the chocolate is made to set in an egg mold (im thinking of making a vid tutorial for this soon). This entire edible nest would look incredible on any cake, especially a chocolate log! I think Im going to try it tomorrow coz I still havent eaten it. The egg is mainly hollow with a single bright orange (i wanted yellow) MnM inside :)

These eggs would look great in a basket- too realistic probably! Which is why the next time I make them im surely gonna add some colour to them.

Choco lava or Molten Lava cake

Choco Lava :)

Probably one of the easiest recipes which turns out so super amazing! I had been wanting to try this out ever since Domino's/KFC introduced it.
I googled a lot to find the perfect recipe and almost all recipes were the same with a few changes here n there.
What I gathered though was :-
1. When making choco lava the simplest way is to bake the cake at a high temperature for a shorter duration so that the insides remain molten. Its really that simple!
2. A small amount of flour is used as the cake is cooked for a short duration.
3. Cooking chocolate is melted and used- probably helps the texture of the "lava" to be more smooth.

Thats pretty much the basic guideline for the lava cakes. All the recipes I found and the one I used had egg in them but Im pretty sure I could substitute the egg with some milk.. will try that next time!

 The recipe I used-

100 gm chocolate (not cocoa powder)
100 gm butter
1 egg
sugar (sorry i dint measure this but im guessing abt 2 spoons)
30 gm flour (maida)

Method:-
1. melt the chocolate n butter together in the microwave.
2. beat the egg with the sugar until sugar dissolves.
3. add the egg to the melted chocolate once its at room temperature. add flour.
thats it!!
 
Pour the batter into muffin tins/ramekins or anything small. Bake at a high for about 10-15 mins till the outsides are cooked. 

I havent mentioned the exact temperate for baking because Iv made this twice and the first batch was smaller in size so I feel they were a bit overcooked- they were'nt molten enough!!  The same temperature was fine for the second time due to the bigger size, so its mainly hit n trail for me :p

The first batch- which wasnt molten enough!