Exploring Tastebuds

      INGREDIENTS: 3/4th cup All Purpose Flour 4 eggs 1/4th cup Cocoa Powder 1/4th cup Bournvita 5star 65 gms Semi Sweet Chocolate 3/4th cup Oil Milk to thin down the batter 3/4th cup Powdered Sugar 1 tsp Vanilla Essence 1 tsp Vinegar 1 tsp Baking Soda 1 Baking Powder 1/2 tsp Cake Gel METHOD: 1. Beat egg till double in quantity and fluffy. 2. Add Sugar,Vanilla essence, Cake Gel and beat well. 3. Slowly add oil and keep beating. 4. Sieve and add Flour, Cocoa powder, Baking Powder. Beat well. 5. Add bournvita, melted chocolate and beat. 6. Mix vinegar and baking soda, when it bubbles add it to the batter and beat. 7. Grease and Bake in a Preheated oven at 180C for 30-35mins.

2 chefs 12 cities 12 cuisines : Indian culinary route 2015 , Marriott Whitefield                              From the warm welcome to a goodie-bag goodbye, it was a completely worthwhile evening to spare from my hectic schedule of college and french classes at Marriott Whitefield's Indian Culinary Route 2015 . It started off in brief with a lovely ginger and coconut flavored welcome drink, eye pleasing decor,  the sound of beautiful Indian instrumentals, the highlight of the event , 'the lip smacking food'  made by the 12 specialty chefs from the best of 12 Marriott's all over India and ended with a variety of delectable desserts by Marriott Whitefield.  ginger and coconut welcome drink I started off my journey by adoring the ethnic set up of the dining table with customized table mats for the event, the basket of flutes wrapped in colorful threads and then prepping mysel...

 This is ready in max 10 minutes of prep plus baking! Best for people who dont love to bake but they are crazy for chocolate cake and icecream anytime of the day. You make the mix using your daily tablespoons in a mug and you microwave it for like 2 minutes and you are done with a mug full of moist chocolate cake!! Have it with a scoop of icecream and hershey's chocolate syrup and you are sorted! P.s. If you dont have eggs in your house , no worries ! Its a eggless chocolate cake :D Ingredients: 3 tbsp All purpose flour 3 tbsp Powdered sugar 3 tbsp Cocoa powder 1/8th tsp Baking powder 1/4th tsp Vanilla essence 3 tbsp Oil 4-8 tbsp Method: 1. In a mug add flour, sugar, cocoa , baking powder. 2. Add vanilla essence, oil and milk and whisk and fold in the mug itself. 3. In the same mug or another, tranfer the batter when runny and bake in the microwave for 2 minutes. 4. Have it hot with a scoop of vanilla icecream and chocolate syrup!

I was always tempted and fascinated by choco lava cakes which ooze out chocolate from the center. So here I go baking one of those!  So a chocolate fondant/molten chocolate cake/choco lava cake  is super easy to make but you only need to be patient enough to have it, because the recipe does ask for you to wait for a few hours before you savor its molten chocolate center. Prep , wait and then savor this with a scoop of vanilla icecream :D Ingredients: 250 gm dark chocolate 270 gm butter  8 eggs 180 gms caster sugar 2 cups flour 2 tsp baking powder 4 tbsp cocoa powder Method:  Melt chocolate and butter over a double boiler or your microwave oven and set aside to cool. In another bowl whisk eggs and sugar until thick and foamy. Whisk in flour , baking powder , cocoa and melted chocolate and butter mix in. Refrigerate upto 24 hours, Preheat oven to 200C and grease 4 ramekins ( I used cupcake moulds , due my unavailability of ramekins)  an...