Showing posts with label desserts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label desserts. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Caramel Custard



  Who would have thought that eggs and milk can make such a magical dessert.  Light, melting in your mouth, mildly sweet.... simply amazing!

 CARAMEL CUSTARD

 Ingredients

 Custard

500 ml of Milk
3 Eggs
¼ cup Castor Sugar
1 tbsp vanilla essence

Caramel

3 tbsp Granulated Sugar
1tbsp Water

Directions

Warm the milk. Mix eggs, vanilla essence and castor sugar. Pour the milk into the egg. Make caramel in a pan with granulated sugar and water. Stir till bubbles appear. Take off the heat once its golden brown. Coat the base of a glass bowl with the caramel and let it cool! Pour custard in the bowl through a strainer and cover loosely with aluminium foil and steam for 20 minutes in a pressure cooker or 45 minutes at 180 c in an oven. Cool in the fridge!

Enjoy! 

Friday, 12 October 2012

Choco Lava Cake



Find me someone who doesn't love chocolates! They serve this amazingly chocolateey ,gooey inside choco lava cake as a dessert at the pizza shop. yummmm!!!! so simple! 

Anybody can make it at home.


Chocolava Cake

makes 5 muffins


Ingredients

70g Bitter-sweet chocolate
45g Butter
1/4 cup Self Raising Flour
1/4 cup Sugar
2 free range Eggs
Cashews, Dates (optional)

Directions

Preheat oven to 180 c and grease a muffin tray with butter and dust with flour.Melt chocolate with butter in a bain marie*.Meanwhile beat eggs with sugar,mix flour.Pour the melted chocolate  into the egg mixture and fold gently.Bake only for 8-12 minutes!


*bain marie is cooking gently by placing the pan over a bowl of hot water