Friday, March 28, 2014

Caramel cake with Ice cream

Ingredients:

Maida (all-purpose flour) - 1 small cup
Corn flour - 2 tea spoons
Dry fruits - as you wish
Horlicks powder - 2 table spoons
Baking powder - 2 tea spoons
Baking soda - 1 tea spoon
Vanilla Essence - 1/2 tea spoon
Butter - 2 table spoons
Milk - 1 small cup
Salt - a pinch
Sugar - 2 table spoons
Water - 1 small cup
Vanilla Ice cream - 2 small cups
Chocolate sauce - as you wish

How to make:
  1. Mix the maida flour, corn flour, horlicks powder, baking powder, vanilla essence, butter, salt and milk in a bowl. 
  2. Sprinkle the dry fruits chopped on the top. 
  3. Bake the mixture at 180c for 10 minutes. 
  4. Heat the sugar with water on a pan and add the cake cut into pieces. 
  5. Take these pieces on to a plate and add a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the top. 
  6. Garnish the scoop with chocolate sauce (or you can always double boil dairy milk chocolate as I do).
Verdict: 

This is an improvisation for a cake which felt incomplete. Also, inspired from a dessert ordered in a chinese restaurant (caramelized bread rolls with ice cream). I tried pouring melted sugar over the cake, but it got hardened so fast, so I then melted it in a pan and got the soft ones. So changed the recipe. Anyway, it was toooooooo good, tasted almost like the dessert I had in the restaurant. May be I will try adding banana splits next time and some nuts on top.

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