Vermicelli Squares / Logs

Ingredients:

Sweetened condensed milk                 1 can
Vermicelli                                            2 packet/400 gm
Butter                                                 50 gm
Cooking chocolate                             100 gm
Coconut                                              ½ cup



Method:

• Grease a 10 X 10 dish slightly with oil and keep aside.

• Break vermicelli in small pieces and keep aside.

• Melt butter in pan add vermicelli and fry them till light golden in color. Keep flame low as they tend to burn easily.
  

• Remove pan from heat and add condensed milk. Mix really well so all vermicelli are coated with condensed milk.
  

• Now put vermicelli in already prepared dish. Spread evenly and with the help of spatula press down firmly so they get packed really well. Level the surface as well with spatula.


• Leave it to get cool and all set. You may need to put this in fridge in hot weather. It will take about 1 -2 hours.


• Once set cut in pieces using sharp knife.
  

• Melt chocolate over a water bath.
  

• Coat vermicelli pieces in chocolate and let them cool. Coat few in chocolate and then roll them in coconut. Coat few pieces only in coconut.
• Once set enjoy with tea or coffee.

Crazy chocolate cake

Name sounds strange, but after reading the recipe you will say whoever named it, did it right. Very easy to make and in no time and on top of all very yummy. It is a dense cake , very chocolaty and moist. If you want it to be even more chocolaty increase cocoa powder to a full cup.

Ingredients

• All -purpose flour                                 3cups
• Sugar                                                   1 ½ cup
• Salt                                                      1 ¼  tsp          
• Baking soda                                         2 tsp
• Unsweetened cocoa powder                3/4 cup
• Oil                                                       ¾ cup
• Distilled white vinegar                           2 tbsp
• Vanilla extract                                      2 tsp
• Cold water                                          2 cups

Directions

1. Sift flour, sugar, salt, soda, and cocoa powder  together into a 9 x 13 inch ungreased cake pan.
2. Pour oil, vanilla and cold water in to flour mixture. Mix well so no lumps are left and no dry flour.
3. Add vinegar and mix again.
4. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 to 40 minutes, or until tooth pick inserted comes out clean. Enjoy with your favorite frosting or as it is.

Chocolate Filled Crescent Rolls

Ingredients:

• 1 cup                           Milk
• 2 ¼ tsp                        Active dry yeast
• 1/2 cup                        Sugar
• 1/2 cup                         Oil
• 1 tsp                            Salt
• 3                                  Eggs
• 4 1/2 cups                    Whole Wheat flour
• 100 gm                        Cooking Chocolate (shredded)
• 1/2 cup                        Butter  melted

Method:

         Heat milk until warm but not hot. Dissolve yeast in warm milk and keep aside.  In mixing bowl add oil, sugar and eggs. Beat until creamy and light pale in color.  Add milk and yeast mixture in. Beat to mix them together. Now add one cup of flour and beat again until smooth. Add one more cup of flour and again beat for about 2 – 3 minutes.  Add 3^rd cup of flour and beat again, if you are using hand beater then it will be really hard at this point. Just beat enough to combine/smooth. Add examining 1 ½ cup of flour and knead the dough for about 4 -5 minutes. Dough should be very sticky. If  its not then add little more milk. Make ball of the dough oil it well and put in a bowl and cover with damp cloth. Let it sit for about 1 -2 hours or until its double in size. Once it reaches to double the size, take the dough out and knead again for just a minute. Divide it in 2 portions. Make ball of each portion and roll with rolling pin in circle like pizza dough. Make sur eto oil your working surface well. Cut each circle in 16 equal pie shapes. Put one tablespoon of shredded chocolate on wide end of each pie and roll them in to crescent starting from wide end.

Put them on oiled baking sheet and  let sit again until they are double in size, time vary depending upon room

 teperature.

Bake them for about 15 - 20 minutes in preheated oven at 176 degree celsius .

When done you can brush them with melted butter, but its optional.

 Enjoy delicious homemade whole wheat crescent rolls. Especially kids will love them.

Note:

·         For baking always make sure that ingredients are at room temperature.