Vanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting - India Flag Special Cupcakes for Republic Day

Wish you all a very Happy 64^th Republic Day to all my Readers, bloggers, friends!!!

I thought I would enhance this year Republic Day celebrations with tri colors of our India flag and baked these delicious vanilla cupcakes with awesome colors of frosting 

A recipe for vanilla cupcakes and butter cream frosting is a perfect pair for model cupcakes. These are very simple to make and taste so yummy

Srav’s Culinary Concepts turns ‘3’!!! With Coffee Cake

Three Cheers for Three Years!!!! I am celebrating three years of blogging and I am totally overwhelmed with this journey J

A Big Thanks to everyone who supported me in my journey of blogging and many thanks to all my blogger friends for all the encouragement with your valuable suggestion.

Celebration is not complete without sweets & treats. So here is a sweet treat ‘Coffee Cake’ for this wonderful fest.

Coffee Cake is a simple sweet moist rich cake usually made with nuts and spices. This Coffee cake with its rich crumble topping tastes great as a morning treat with a cup of coffee.

Mango CheeseCake

Mango CheeseCake is always fantasized me as I didn’t have it anywhere. So I was wondering how it could taste. This is my first trial of a cheesecake and it came out so well. As the season of mango is in and I am all set that I made this dessert.

My love for mango cannot be frazzled enough and tried this scrumptious cake which tasted so heavily. This recipe doesn't require any baking.

Its light silky texture, smooth creamy is fun to make and tastes so delicious which impresses everyone and everyone will surly ask for another lovely bite!!

Pound Cake

Happy Mother’s Day !!

Moms are the sweetest gift from god to us.They are so lovable and fill our hearts with love and laughter. Mummy you are the best. Love you !!

For this Mother’s day I made Pound Cake which is one of my Mom’s favorite dish.

Pound Cake is a soft buttery cake with a lovely golden brown crust. This is the most basic cake which is prepared by flour,butter,eggs and sugar.

Eggless Mango Cake

This weekend I bought new baking pans and I was very keen to bake some cake. Then taught of baking an eggless mango cake which I tried couple of months back but could not post the recipe which I bookmarked from ChefInyou.

This Mango Cake was so moist and scrummy. The cardamom powder to it adds great fragrance and nice flavor to cake. I love its color and its taste is splendid.

Velvet Cake with Fondant Pink Roses – Valentine Special

Happy Valentine’s Day to All My Friends, Bloggers & Readers.

Valentine Day is full of love, roses, chocolates…

For this Valentine I taught to make the most admired red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting but unfortunately I got so much project work to complete in this weekend…. Ahh !! However yesterday evening took a break from my work and taught to bake something special to my darling hubby.

And I made these cute heart shapes velvet cakes and one more beautiful thing for this cake guess what !! Yes those pretty pink roses.

I love pink and I & my hubby loved those sweet roses. 

Srav’s Culinary Concepts Turns One!! With Coconut Cake

Srav’s Culinary Concepts turns one today.  Woohoo !!!! 

It’s amazing it has been one year since I started my blog. 365 days of pleasant memories because of all of you, my dear readers, food blog friends and family.

Many things have been changed since my first post. I never expected I would gain so much from writing a blog. I learnt so many varieties, writing about 110 recipes, conducting events.

Chocolate Fudge Cake -- Merry Christmas

Jingle Bells Jingle Bells Jingle All the Way !!!

Wishing all my Friends, Bloggers, Readers and Family A Merry Christmas !!

Hope everyone are having wonderful Christmas celebrations Eve and great holidays with your loved ones,laughter,joy,cookies & cakes .


We did put our Christmas tree up yesterday and did all the decoration. I love the twinkling lights and ornaments that brighten the tree.


On the baking front prepared this Chocolate Fudge Cake with Chocolate Frosting. This is my first fudge cake and it came out so wonderful !! Loved it !! used butterscotch chips for decorating the cake.


Ingredients:


All purpose Flour - 1 1/2 cups
Dark Brown Sugar - 3/4 cup
Semi Sweet chocolate chips - 2 oz

Baking Powder - 1 tbsp
Butter - 3/4 cup
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
Milk - 1 tbsp
Eggs - 3 no
Butterscotch chips (optional)


Frosting


Semi sweet chocolate chips - 3 1/2 oz
Milk - 1 tbsp
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
Butter - 1/4 cup

Preparation

• In a saucepan set over low heat, or in a microwave, melt together the chocolate and milk, stirring till smooth. 
• Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then add the flour, brown sugar, vanilla extract, baking powder and mix well till smooth and fluffy.
• Fold them into the chocolate mixture.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
• Pour the mixture into the greased round cake pan
• Bake for 50-55 minutes or until the toothpick is inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool for 10 mins before removing from cake pan

• For chocolate frosting in a microwave safe bowl add chocolate chips, butter, milk and vanilla extract and heat for 2 mins.
• Stir well until smooth.
• Take a spoon of the frosting into a big heap on the top of the cake.
• Spread the frosting towards the edges of the cake.
• Place the  butterscotch chips on top of the frosting.