Gift Wrapped Chocolate cake with Butter cream Icing

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I have used Basic Chocolate cake and Butter cream icing for preparing Gift wrap. For wrapping i used Normal decorating Red color ribbon.
And For the number i made simple Sugar cookies for the number 400  and decorated with Butter Cream Icing.

For Gift Wrap:

Ingredients:

Chocolate Cake                  - 1
Powdered Sugar                 - 1 cup
Butter                                 - 1/2 cup
Cold Milk                           - 2 tbsp
Vannila Essence                 - 1 tsp

Procedure:

• You can click for knowing How to prepare Simple Chocolate Cake?. I baked a cake and cut it into Big squares. Now over to Butter Cream Icing procedure.
• Keep the vessel in which you are going to prepare frosting and beaker hook in fridge for at-least an hour.
• After an hour, take out vessel, hook and start whipping the butter. And when its fluffy add Powdered Sugar and Vanilla Essence.
• Whisk well. After some five minutes, add cold milk and start whisking again.
• The frosting should be of free flowing consistency. If the frosting is too thick, add in 2 tbsp of cold milk or more. Adding milk is purely optional. Frosting should be easily spreadable. If the frosting is too thin, it won't stay on cakes. So be careful, while adding milk. Whisk until it becomes creamy. 
• Take a big dollop of frosting and then spread it on cake top as well on sides. Then make it smooth!! If crumbs are seen, do a crumb coat.
• Take a plate in which you are going to serve the cake piece. Add frosting to the center. Place cut ribbons and now carefully transfer the cake with frosting to the center of ribbon and wrap it. Decorate it with Sugar Rice balls.
• Refrigerate the cake for some time and then serve. Your gift wrapped Cake is ready.

For Number ' 400':

Ingredients:

Sugar Cookies           

Butter Cream Icing

Procedure:

• Prepare Sugar cookies with number ' 400'. You can click here for knowing How to Prepare Sugar Cookies?.
• Prepare Buttercream icing as mentioned above. Add frosting to cookies using smallest pin and decorate it with sugar rice balls. Refrigerate cookies for some time and then serve the cookies.

Chistmas Special Sugar Cookies

Today's recipe will give an insight about how to prepare basic sugar cookies and how to decorate it. You don't need any special equipment  other than Convection oven and Hand blender. It doesn't require any special skill too. Just go ahead and start your Christmas celebrations!! 

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour        - 1 cup (Maida)
Powdered Sugar         - 1/2 cup
Butter                          - 1/4 cup
Baking Powder            - 1/4 tsp
Egg                              - 1
Vanilla Extract             - 1/4 tsp
Salt                              -  a pinch

Procedure:

• Sieve well All purpose flour, Baking powder and salt together. Powder sugar and take 1/2 cup of it. Butter should be at room temperature when you are using it for preparing cookies. Take egg out from fridge 30 minutes before you start off with the procedure.
• Take a bowl. Add butter to it. Beat it till it becomes creamy. After that add powdered sugar. Beat for 2 to 3 minutes so that sugar mixes well with butter.
• Now add an egg to the bowl. Beat for some time till the batter turns fluffy.
•  Add vanilla essence to batter. Now add sieved dry ingredients to batter in small instances and start folding in dry ingredients with a help of a spatula. 
• Your cookie dough is ready now.  Cookie dough will be wet only as of now. Once stored in fridge, dough will get little dry.
•  Separate the dough into two parts cover it with a cling wrap and store it in fridge at least for an hour. The cookie dough stays good even for 3 days when stored in fridge. 
• Take out the dough from fridge only when you are going to prepare cookies. Even now, if your dough is wet, you can add little all purpose flour to dough and knead it. 
• Make a small ball out of the dough and roll it with the help of flour. Cut it in desired shapes using cookie cutter and place it in a greased tray. 

• If you don't have cookie cutter, just make a lemon size ball and place it on a greased tray. Press  it using a fork. By this way, you can make round shaped cookies easily. 
• You can also cut the cookies in the shape you wish by directly cutting the dough with a help of fondant knife. I prepared Christmas shapes by this method only.
• Pre-heat the oven in convection mode at 180 degree Celsius and bake cookies at 180 degree Celsius for about 10 minutes. 
• When you are taking out from oven, cookies will be soft only. It will turn crunchier in some time. So after baking, allow cookies to cool off so that it will turn crispier. Now our sugar cookies are ready.

Christmas Decorations:

For Frosting:

Powdered Sugar                    - 1/2 cup
Butter                                      - 1/4 cup
Cold Milk                                 - 1 tbsp
Vannila essence                      - 1/4 tsp (Optional)

Procedure:

•  keep the vessel in which you are going to prepare frosting and beater  hook in fridge for at-least an hour.
• After an hour take out vessel, hook and start whipping the Butter. And when its fluffy add Powdered sugar and vanilla Essence.
• Whisk well.. After some five minutes, add cold milk and start whisking again.
• The frosting should be of free flowing consistency. If the frosting is too thick, add in 2 tbsp of cold milk or more. Adding milk is purely optional. Frosting should be easily spreadable. If the frosting is too thin, it won't stay on cookies. So be careful, while adding milk. Whisk until it becomes creamy.
• You can add edible food colors to Buttercream icing to get  desired colors. Use small piping nozzle for making outline designs and use little bigger nozzle for filling the cookies. 

• Let the cookies sit in fridge for some time so that icing sets well and serve the cookies after frosting has been completely set. Enjoy your specially decorated Christmas cookies,

Chocolate Chip Cookies (With Step Wise pictures)

This is the recipe for perfect Chocolate Chip cookies. You don't need any special skill or equipment for preparing this cookies. You need only Oven for this recipe.. Just take exact amount of ingredients. Blend everything together. Make balls out of it. Bake in oven. Your yummy Chocolate Chip cookies are ready..
The recipe follows..

Yields : Around 50 cookies

Preparation Time : 30 minutes + Baking time

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour        - 2.5 cups (Maida)
Brown Sugar                - 1 cup
Sugar                            - 3/4 cup
Butter                           - 1 cup
Egg                               - 2
Chocolate Chips           - 1.5 cups
Baking Powder             - 1 tsp
Salt                               - a pinch
Vanilla Essence            - 2 tsp

Procedure:

• Sieve All purpose flour , Baking powder and salt together. Powder Brown sugar and sugar.
• Take a bowl. Add egg to it. Whisk until it turns fluffy. After that add Butter. Whisk for about 5 minutes.
• And then add both powdered Sugar and powdered Brown sugar to the bowl. Continue whisking till sugar gets dissolved.
• Now add vanilla essence and whisk a little.
• Add sieved flour mix in small instances. When ever you are adding flour to the bowl, mix everything with a spatula. You shouldn't whisk at this point. Just rotate your hand with a spatula. Now our cookie dough is ready..

• Keep the dough in Fridge for at-least 15 minutes. This helps to make balls easily. 
• After 15 minutes, apply butter to palm and make balls out of the dough. Place it in a greased cookie tray. You can also use Baking sheet to cover up the tray.

• Pre heat the oven to 170 degree Celsius. Bake the cookies for about 20 to 25 minutes.

•  You can see Cookie balls enlarging in its size. It must have perfectly cooked after 25 minutes.

• Immediately after baking, cookies will be softer. It will turn crispier in some time. Store it in an air tight box and enjoy your cookies!!

Quick Tips:

1. Butter should be in room temperature, when you are about to whisk.
2. Always take out the dough from fridge, only when you are about  to bake cookies. let it be in fridge for remaining time.
3. You can store this  cookie dough in fridge for 2 days. 

Ragi And Wheat Cookies

Ragi And Wheat Cookies

Ragi is one Ragi is one of the most nutritious food and one of the easy one to to digest. It is rich in calcium and protein and also have good amount of iron and other minerals. It is low in fat most of which are unsaturated fats..

Try this interesting version of ragi which is very tasty and healthy.. For binding we are using Wheat flour. (Atta flour). So the cookies as such is very nutritional.

Ingredients:

Ragi Flour                                     - 1/2 cup

Whole Wheat Flour                       - 1/2 cup

Powdered Sugar                           - 1/4 cup
Butter                                            - 1/2 cup
Salt                                                - a pinch
Baking Powder                             - a pinch
Vannila essence                            - a pinch

Things Needed:

1. Hand Blender

Procedure:

1. Blend butter and Powdered sugar.
2. Add sieved flours to it. Don't knead it.
3. Make balls out of it.
4. Pre heat oven to 180 degree Celsius.
5. Place the balls in a greased baking tray.
6. Press balls using a fork.
7. Bake for 12 - 15 minutes.
8. Enjoy with hot tea..

Butter Biscuits

Butter Biscuits

Everyone will like cookies irrespective of their age.. Butter biscuits are always special that their melting taste will take us to another world.  The preparation is quite simple. it involves just handful of ingredients.

Ingredients:

All purpose flour ( Maida )          - 1 cup
Powdered Sugar                           - 1/4 cup
Butter                                            - 1/2 cup
Salt                                                - a pinch
Baking Powder                             - a pinch
Vannila essence                            - a pinch

Things Needed:

1. Hand Blender

Procedure:

1. Blend butter and Powdered sugar.
2. Add sieved flour to it. Don't knead it.
3. Make balls out of it.
4. Pre heat oven to 180 degree Celsius.
5. Place the balls in a greased baking tray.
6. Press balls using a fork.
7. Bake for 12 - 15 minutes.
8. Enjoy with hot tea..