0 Vegan Barley Chocolate Cake

I really want to bake a super moist and rich chocolate cake with barley flour and finally i baked some two weeks back for a friends birthday. As she is a vegan foodie, i really checked few sites to get an interesting chocolate cake,but finally i got hooked to Madhus Vegan Barley Chocolate Cake. Thanks to Madhu for giving us this beautiful,super moist cake and my friend simply loved this cake.Initially i was bit skeptical about the barley flour in cake, also i have read somewhere that barley flour are not glutenous like wheat flour or all purpose flour,while i went through this cake post at Madhus place,she also shared the same thought, thank god she also had the same thought like me. After reading her post, i was very much confident and tried my hands with homemade barley flour.

This cake turned out extremely spongy and i was very much happy with the final result. You can try ur hands in making cakes with barley flour in case if you want to experiment like me. A wonderful alternative to those who dont want to make bakes with all purpose flour or wheat flour. As am running my third week of blogging marathon with baking with wholegrains as theme, am posting this beautiful chocolate cake.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#25.

2cups Barley flour
1cup Sugar
1/4tsp Salt
1tsp Baking soda
1/2tsp Baking powder
1/4cup Unsweetened cocoa powder
1tbsp Vanilla extract
1/3cup Canola oil
1tbsp Apple cider Vinegar
1cup Cold water

Preheat the oven to 350F for few minutes.

Grease generously the bottom and sides of a round baking pan and line it with parchement paper.

Sift together the barley flour,cocoa powder,baking soda,baking powder,sugar and salt, keep aside.

Mix the vanilla extract,canola oil,vinegar,cold water in a another bowl and gradually add it to the dry ingredients,dont overmix the batter.

Pour now this batter to the prepared pan and bake for 25-30minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

Cool it completely, remove the parchement paper and slice the cake as you desire.

You can frost this cake very well or dust it with powdered sugar.

0 Ultimate Chocolate Cream Cheese Cookies

As i told earlier for Baking Partners Challenge, we got three cookie recipes to bake as we can choose and bake any cookies out of them. One among those three cookies i baked two cookies,i have already posted Cornflakes Cookies and here comes one more irresistible cookies i baked two days back for this baking partners challenge. This ultimate chocolate cream cheese cookies was suggested by Tina of Pinay In Texas Cooking Corner from Food & Wine Best of the Best Cookbook Recipes Vol. 14. This fantastic cookies are fabulous and am damn sure you wont stop munching them if you make them at home. These cookies are truly awesome and definitely a real feast for chocoholic persons like me. Thanks to Tina and Swathi for suggesting this scrumptious cookies.Sending this yummy cookies to Srivallis Kids Delight-Anniversary Potluck Party.

2+1/4cups All purpose flour
1/4cup Unsweetened cocoa powder
2tsp Baking soda
1/2tsp Salt
225g Unsalted butter(softened slightly)
113g Cream Cheese(room temperature)
1cup Granulated sugar
1/2cup Dark brown sugar
2nos Eggs
2tbsp Heavy cream
1tsp Pure vanilla extract
85g Bittersweet chocolate(melted and cooled)
225g Semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.

In a medium bowl, sift the flour with the cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. In a bowl ,beat together the butter, cream cheese, granulated sugar and brown sugar and beat until fluffy, about 3 minutes.

Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Beat in the eggs, heavy cream and vanilla until blended. Slowly add the dry ingredients.

Add the melted chocolate and chocolate chips and beat just until incorporated.

Cover the bowl and rigerate the dough for at least 15 minutes or up to 2 hours.

Scoop heaping tablespoons of cookie dough onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing them two inches apart.

Bake for 12 minutes until the cookies are just set; shift the baking sheets for top to bottom and front to back half way through.

Let the cookies cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer them to a rack to cool completely.

The cookies can be stored in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

0 Eggless Oats Chocolate Biscottis

Biscottis are a type of cookies baked twice and it an Italian cookie. Usually these cookies or biscuits are oblong shaped and they are well known for their crunchiness. Since these cookies are baked twice they can stay pect for a long if they are conserved properly.For our this months Home Bakers Challenge,i have to became the host of the month at last moment coz the host of this month couldnt able to do the guest hosting, thank god i pinged earlier to know about the status of her recipe choice then only she told that she cant do the guest hosting for this month. When i was searching for a easy bake, i thought these Italian cookies will be quite interesting as some of the members of Home bakers group would have rarely tried their hands in making biscottis.

I chosed two savoury biscottis and two sweet biscottis, coming to this eggless oats chocolate biscottis its one of my creation. Actually while chosing the biscottis recipe, i couldnt able to get this fabulous Italian cookies with wholegrains, but finally i decided to bake this crunchy super chocolaty biscottis with rolled oats. They came out extremely pect and obviously they were quite addictive. You cant stop with one biscottis if you bake these oats chocolate biscottis at home.You can pack these biscottis to kids snack box as these biscottis have the incredible grain Oats, for the second week of blogging marathon i chosed the mess free tiffin box theme and am posting this scrumptious biscottis for this week theme as they fit very much for the theme..Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#34.Its 1st sunday of the month and since i belong to a group of friends who blogs on sunday for the event Lets Brunch On Sundays am posting this biscottis for this event too.

1+1/2cups All purpose flour
1/2cup Rolled oats
1tbsp Cocoa powder
1/4cup Melted chocolate
1/2cup Sugar
1tsp Baking powder
1/2tsp Baking soda
1/2cup Butter (room temperature)
1tsp Vanilla extract
A pinch Salt

Take the flour,rolled oats,cocoa powder,baking soda,baking powder,salt in a vessel.

Meanwhile whisk together the butter,sugar until they turns smooth.Add in the melted chocolate,vanilla extract and give a quick stir.

Now slowly add in the dry ingredients and knead as a soft dough, if its hard to need just sprinkle few drops of milk, if its sticky, add in few flour.

Preheat the oven to 350F

Roll the dough as a log and transfer it to a baking sheet lined over a baking tray.

Bake the log for 20-25minutes. Cool it for 10minures.

With a sharp knife, slice it diagonally as 1in pieces or roughly to get around 15-20pieces from the log.
Bake it again for 5 minutes.

Flip the biscottis and bake again for an another 5 minutes.

Let them cool completely.

Conserve it in a air tightened box.

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0 Hot Chocolate Fudge SFC 1

Hot chocolate fudge, its been ages i had this fantastic dessert. But finally i could make some at home and thanks to Preeti of Simply Tadka for suggesting this incredible and easy breezy dessert for this months Sweet Fantasy Club. Few scoops of vanilla icecream and a simple hot chocolate sauce is enough to make this incredible dessert. My kids enjoyed thoroughly this incredible dessert and asked me again to make this chilled dessert.A quick hot chocolate sauce topped over few scoops of vanilla icecream makes this fantastic hot chocolate fudge.

Eventhough the weather is too cold, we seriously enjoyed thoroughly this dessert, my H have completely fallen in love with this dessert. Definitely this dessert is a real feast for both icecream and chocolate lovers. I went for vanilla icecream and homemade hot chocolate sauce which i simply prepared by melting chocolate chips in double boiler. If you want to change the flavor of the icecream just go with your favourite flavor.

3scoops of Vanilla icecream
1/2cup Chocolate chips
2tbsp Milk
Whipped cream (optional)
Few chopped nuts

Melt the chocolate chips and milk in double boiler..

Arrange the scoops of vanilla icecream in a plate.

Pour the hot chocolate sauce over the icecream.

Serve immediately topped with chopped nuts.

Notes:
You can add sugar pearls, chocolate sprinkles and else with cherries.

Also you can top the fudge with whipped cream but i skipped it.

0 Eggless Peanut Chocolate Cookies

If you love peanuts and chocolate in cookies, this cookies are just for you.Beware, coz these cookies are quite addictive and definitely super buttery.If you dont care or mind about to take few pounds,coz you may gain on munching this cookies, well you can prepare them very much quickly and easily to enjoy them for an evening snacks.I just prepared them yesterday evening for my kids snacks, needless to say my two batches of these eggless cookies vanished very much quickly..These cookies turned out very much nutty,buttery,super addictive obviously satisfy your sweet tooth.

Just dip them in warm milk and enjoy these cookies, i can bet that these cookies will tastes absolutely divine.I had hard time to take a picture of these cookies, coz few hands were waiting impatiently to pick and have them..To be honest, i just got a cookie to taste, everyone at home just loved munching these scrumptious cookies.Sending to my event CWS-Peanuts hosted by me.

2cups All purpose flour
1cup Sugar
1cup Butter (room temperature)
3tbsp Cocoa powder
1tsp Baking powder
1/4cup Roasted peanuts
A pinch salt

Beat the butter until they turns soft, add the sugar to the butter,beat for few minutes.

Now add gradually the flour,baking powder,cocoa powder, roasted peanuts and turns a dough.

Preheat the oven to 350F, arrange a baking sheet over a baking tray.

Make a small balls from the dough, flat them in your palms and arrange over the baking sheet,press on th top of cookies with a fork.

Bake in middle rack for 15-20minutes or until the top turns firm.

Keep aside and let them cool.

Enjoy with a cup of coffee.

0 Chocolate eaters More Slim

Chocolate eaters More Slim? | This is good news for chocolate fans. Recent research indicates that those who regularly eat chocolate have a more slender body than those who rarely eat them. Scientists from the University of California, San Diego, Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD and his team found that adults who eat chocolate regularly tend to have a more slender body than not eating.

As published online in the Archives of Internal Medicine on March 26, 2012, the researchers emphasize that these findings do not prove that regular consumption of chocolate to lose weight. But there may be other factors that influence the differences in weight or perhaps it is merely a statistical fluke.

In his research, Golomb and colleagues involving nearly 1000 people volunteer. Participants were asked to fill out questionnaires about how often they eat chocolate. The average age of volunteers is 57 years old and 68 percent of them were male.

Researchers then tried to find an association between chocolate consumption and body mass index (BMI) of participants. BMI is a calculation based on height and weight are used to determine the weight, overweight and obesity in adults.

Body mass index average of 28 participants - that is, being overweight but not obese. On average, participants eating chocolate twice a week and regular physical activity (sports) three to four times a week.

The study results showed that those who eat regularly or frequently eat chocolate have a lower BMI than the other, even when researchers have linked with other factors such as age, gender, education and consumption of fruits and vegetables. In fact, the difference between participants who ate chocolate less frequently, and about 5 to 7 pounds.

Golomb said the chocolate including foods rich in antioxidants - substances that can fight the destructive agents in the body. Some research also has shown, the consumption of chocolate can provide positive health effects such as lowering cholesterol and keeping blood pressure. But on the other hand, chocolate can also be disastrous because of the high content of calories and fat.

Golomb again reminded that this study does not imply that consumption of chocolate can help you lose weight. The study also does not specify what kind of chocolate is best for your body. "This finding does not mean that you have to go out and eat 20 pounds of chocolate per day," said Golomb.

0 Chocolate Healthy Snacks for Kids

Chocolate, Healthy Snacks for Kids - Children so like to chocolate, it cause this snacks is very smooth and delicious, in fact behind that, chocolate also keep any other benefit, such as overcome from stress at kids.

Chocolate have any type, there is a chocolate that good for health like protect heart disease, and also have any type of chocolate that bad to health. OK, lets we see the explanation about this chocolate.

Nutritionist and Health Chef, Edwin Lau explain, there are three type of chocolate, dark chocolate, 70% yield of pure chocolate, cocoa solid and cocoa butter with added sugar and vanilla. This is best chocolate for heart health and more.

Milk chocolate, 50% yield of pure chocolate with addition of sugar and milk and vanilla. This is most popular chocolate at children. White chocolate, which contains 35% high-quality pure chocolate, sugar, milk, and vanilla, because it was white. But generally too high sugar content. So, if you consume these chocolate will get negative effect such as damage to teeth and increase blood sugar levels of diabetes sufferer.

"also there are chocolate that sold without a brand. This is that we must pay attention, because the content of pure chocolate is less than 20%, even only 7%. This type of chocolate are very high levels of sugar with the addition that is also high in saturated fats and hydrogenated vegetable oils (HVO). These chocolate will very bad effect to health,"

said Edwin.
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