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As world celebrated Chocolate Day on July 7, we bring to you a few lip smacking recipes to satiate your cravings 

As world celebrated Chocolate Day on July 7, we bring to you a few lip smacking recipes to satiate your cravings

Chocolate and Biscuit Layered Pudding

Ingredients
For chocolate sauce:

  • Milk1 litre
  • Drinking chocolate 4 tbspn
  • Corn flour 6tbspn
  • Sugar (or to taste) 5 tbspn
  • Biscuits 4 packets
  • Nuts or sprinkles for garnishing

[Optional -Add coffee powder / bournvita/ walnuts as per your liking and taste]

Method

  • Mix the chocolate sauce ingredients well and stir in a heavy bottom pan till it thickens to a sauce-like consistency. Set aside to cool.
  • In a shallow dish, add a layer of biscuits, followed by a thick layer of sauce. Repeat process for three layers.
  • Set in fridge for two hours
  • Cut into cake size pieces and serve garnished with nuts.

Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients

  • All-purpose flour 1 1/4 cups
  • Unsweetened cocoa powder 1/2 cup
  • Baking soda
1 tsp
  • Baking powder 1/4 tsp
  • Salt
1/4 tsp
  • Sugar
1 1/4 cups
  • Butter
1/2 cup
  • Large egg
1

Method

  • Set two racks in the middle of the oven. Preheat to 350°F / 180°C
  • Sift the flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking soda and salt.
  • In a food processor, or in a bowl, thoroughly mix the flour, cocoa, baking soda and powder, salt, and sugar.
  • Add the butter and pulse until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
  • Add the egg and continue processing or mixing until dough comes together in a mass. This take seconds.
  • If mixing in a bowl, mix the dry ingredients. Add the butter and use fingers or a fork to mix till it resembles bread crumbs. Add the egg and continue mixing till it forms a dough (takes very little time for it to do so).
  • Take rounded teaspoons of batter and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet approximately two inches apart. With moistened hands, slightly flatten the dough.
  • Bake for nine minutes. Set baking sheets on a rack to cool.

Chocolate Pinwheel Cookies

Ingredients

  • Butter 100gms
  • Powdered sugar 1 cup
  • Vanilla essence1 tsp
  • Egg 1
  • Flour 2 cups
  • Baking soda ½ tsp
  • Cocoa powder 2 tbsp

Method

  • Mix butter, sugar and vanilla essence. Next add the egg and mix well. Then add flour and baking soda to make a soft dough.
  • Divide the dough in two halves and add cocoa powder to one half.
  • Roll out two large round thickcircles from each half and layer them one on top of each other.
  • Now roll them into a roll like a swiss roll and keep in the fridge for half an hour.
  • Cut into 1/4th of an inch slices and place on butter paper on a baking tray.
  • Bake for 15 to 20 minutes at 180deg C in the oven.
  • Cool on a wire rack and store.

By: Sunory Dutt
Source: www.salttotaste.in

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