How to make Chocolate Shavings/ Chocolate Shavings

How to make Chocolate Shavings/

Chocolate Shavings

Hi Friends,

This is my shortest post ever as today i am veryyy busy coz today is my dearest hubby's birthday. Pictures here are self explanatory so no need to explain things. These are chocolate shavings which are very useful when you don't get anything to decorate your desserts like ice cream, cake, shakes etc. These can be made ahead and kept in fridge for 2-3 weeks so whenever you need to add a dash of chocolate in any dish just use this shaving. There are lots of ways to make these shaving like you can break them in big pieces and grind them once or twice in grinder to get granule kind of shavings or even you can make them powder form but don't grind them for long as they become melt with the heat and make a mess. So run them once or twice in the grinder and take it out immediately or you can use a peeler to get bit curly shavings But i thing this way we will get perfect shaving. Choice is yours. Make them any way it will give you same yummy chocolaty taste. 

Ingredients:-
Any cooking Chocolate(dark/milk/white) - 50gm (you can use Dairy milk )
Knife or peeler

Method:-

Take a knife/peeler and a block of chocolate

hold chocolate in hand and start scraping with knife

Now decorate your cake/ice cream/dessert or whatever you want

I used it to decorate my Black Forest Cake (recipe next post)

Notes:-

1. Chocolate should be firm, keep it in fridge for 10-15 minutes then proceed.
2. You can use cooking chocolate but if its not available then use dairy milk.
3. You can grate chocolate also but it will give you fine granule type shavings. i prefer this method.

HOPE YOU WILL LIKE IT

Love
PariCash

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate butter cream Icing, Topped with Chocolate Sauce/ Triple Chocolate Cake

Eggless Chocolate Cake with Chocolate butter cream Icing, Topped with Chocolate Sauce/

Eggless Triple Chocolate Cake

Hi Friends,

I am back after spending weeks in hospital and at my mom's home (still i am there) without mobile phone. Trying to recover from the past few horrible weeks of my life. So many medicines, painful injections, smell of cotton, bandages and so many kinds of sanitiser's made me mad. First time in life i was admitted to the hospital. It was so painful experience physically and mentally. Support of my sisters, mom, dad, brother gave me courage to recover from all this trauma. I stayed 3 days in hospital away from my kids and when i saw them i started crying. Still my kids asks me 'mom why were you crying that day'. I really don't have answer for there question. Every time they ask this question few drops rolls over my cheeks and i grab my kids in my arms. I am advised to take only home made, hygienic, healthy and light food. So may be now my blog would be flooded with some healthy and light recipes. But as i have seen my blog after so many days and filled with the same feeling when i saw my kids after few days, i am feeling like crying. So today i will post something sweet to forget those painful experiences.

Today i am going to post a chocolate cake filled with chocolate butter cream icing and topped with chocolate sauce. My God so much chocolate. It could be a treat for Chocolate lovers like me but fate that i can't eat anything like that. No worries my readers are most welcome to enjoy this delicious cake. 

This post is more about simple and easy yet attractive decoration of cakes. I was always fascinated with some simple yet attractive decorations of the cakes. I try to watch cake decoration videos whenever get time. Then i came to know that the designs which use to amaze me takes hardly few minutes to make. Sometimes i don't get time to decorate the cakes. Then one fine day when i made this cake and topped it with chocolate sauce but it was looking so simple so thought to make it more appealing. Suddenly i reminded one video in which few strokes made a cake so appealing. I picked up a toothpick and marked few lines and my god it was a different cake within minutes. So here i am presenting cake along with a easy peasy way to decorate a simple cake. Hope you will like it.

Ingredients:-

Dry Ingredients
Flour - 1.5 cups
Coco pdr- 1 tbsp
Baking pdr- 1 tsp
Baking soda- 1/2 tsp

Wet Ingredients
Water - 1 cup
Butter - 2 tbsp
Sugar - half cup
Vinegar - 1 tbsp
Vanilla Essence- 2 tsp

For filling and decoration- 
Chocolate Buttercream icing-2 tbsp
Chocolate sauce- 1 cup (see recipe here)
Tutti Fruity- 1 tbsp
Cherry - as needed

Method:-

Dry ingredients

Wet ingredients

Sieve dry ingredients 2-3 times for uniform mixing

take water sugar and vinegar in a pan and heat it

Add vanilla essence

Cool it down

Add sieved dry ingredients

Mix well

Tip in the prepared pan and bake for 30 min.

Beautifully baked

Now take it in a plate and torte it

Take chocolate butter cream icing

Fill your cake and sprinkle some tutti fruity

Cover it up and start icing the cake

Cover it up

Now take chocolate sauce see recipe here

Pour it on cake

Tilt your cake to spread it (it need not to be so fine)

and let it rest for 5 min.

Now take a toothpick or knife and mark slant lines on the cake

Now mark lines crossing earlier lines

Decorate with cherries

Ready to cut

Notes:-

1. You can increase or decrease sugar as per your choice as there was so much chocolate in the cake i used less sugar.
2. You can leave the torte and filling part as its a chocolate cake and need not to be filled but i wanted show the white divided layer so made the layered cake.
3. You can always keep this cake simple without decoration. I wanted to give it a twist so decorated it this way.
4. You can also make a vanilla cake and top & decorate it with chocolate sauce.

HOPE YOU WILL LIKE IT

Love
PariCash

My First Experience of Decorating Cakes with Butter-cream Icing/ My first experience with cake Decoration/ Vanilla Cake with Butter-cream Icing

My First Experience of Decorating Cakes with Butter-cream Icing/ 

My first experience with cake Decoration/

Vanilla Cake with Butter-cream Icing

Hi Friends,

Today i am very happy. Lots of birthday's are coming in the row, My kids, sis, bro-in-law and mine. See how many cakes i am suppose to bake and it is more challenging as there is no gap between these birthdays all are in row. So before starting baking i wanted to practice some decoration patterns which i am craving to try very badly. I was always very much impressed with the whipped cream icing which bakery people use.

My journey for decorating cakes started about 1.5 years back when i started to search for whip cream as its not easily available in Delhi.  Searching for this cream took whole 5-6 months and finally i found a man who supplies cool whip to the bakeries. somehow i agreed him to send a packet for me. It was 1 ltr pack and if its opened then should be used within three days. It seems easy but when i started whipping it, i whipped and whipped and whipped and it become more and more thin. I dropped my hands and somehow used whole box for other things. In between i started experimenting with chocolate and found it very easy. But still i was a beginner. I frosted and filled cakes with chocolate sauce and ganache. 

Decoration bug again bitten me last year and i bought a piping bag which comes with 5 nozzles. I filled it with chocolate icing and my whole kitchen become a mess. I was least aware about the consistency of icing. I dropped the idea and satisfied myself looking at the pictures of beautifully decorated cakes. But few days back again the gathered courage to try my hands on icing. I read hundreds of icing recipes and chose one very easy butter-cream icing. as i don't have whipping machine i used my hands and did it in intervals. still the result was good. I gathered courage and filled my piping bag very carefully. tried making design in a plate and my heart jumped with joy when i saw beautiful design coming out of the nozzle. I used three different nozzles to try my hands. I kept on decorating the cake without realising that cake is so small and icing is very sweet. After finishing whole icing i realised that cake is   over decorated but still my kids liked it very much. My hubby said its too sweet but don't know why i felt it was not too much sweet (may be my sweet tooth liked it very much). 

I want to thanks all my readers and fellow bloggers because of you people in spite of so many failures i gathered courage again and again to decorate my cakes. Finally i did it. I know its not even close to the perfection but still i am happy with the outcome.THANK U ALL

Ingredients:-
Vanilla Cake - See Here
Only change i made was used APF (Maida) for this cake.
For Icing- See Here


Method:-

I made this small cake for decoration.

Butter cream icing

I torte (cut in half horizontally) cake and applied icing and sprinkled tutti fruity

I smoothed the top with knife 

After frosting the cake i added 1/2 tsp milk and colour in the icing for decoration

I wrote names of my kids on the plate as cake was not having space to write names :)

It was yummyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Have a slice

Notes:-

1. My cake was sweet and icing was also sweet. So it become too sweet. Please keep in mind the ratio of sugar in icing and cake to make perfectly sweet cake.
2. After frosting cake i added 1/2 tsp milk and color in the icing. it become bit loose. That is why decoration is not that perfect but stiff icing will make it perfect so don't make this mistake to thin the icing before piping.
3. I over decorated the cake as it was a practice cake. Don't do this if making for someone as name of the birthday guy/gal also need some space on the cake.

HOPE YOU WILL LIKE IT

Love
PariCash