It was Nived's B'day and Nakshat decided to cook. Then we discovered an amazing book of 'recipes for children' with Gauri and the menu was set. Gauri joined in and both the children baked assorted cookies and mud pie. They had a blast of time and the result was finger licking!
Recipe for Mud Pie
Crushed biscuits of your choice: 1 cup
Butter: 1/2 cup
Castor sugar: 1/2 cup
Cocoa powder: 1 tbsp
Finely cut mixed nuts(almonds, raisins, sunflower seeds, watwer melon seeds, walnuts etc): 1 cup
Plain chocolate bar: 100gms
Mix biscuits, butter, sugar, cocoa powder and half cup of nuts together. Take a flat glass bowl, spread a foil sheet and evenly spread the prepared mixture. Cover and refrigerate it for 2 hrs. Just before serving, melt the chocolate bar(boil some water in a bowl and keep another bowl inside it with the chocolate bar and cover) and spoon over the biscuit mixture. Decorate with the rest of nuts and serve.
Assorted Cookies Recipe
All purpose flour: 1 cup
Castor sugar: 1/2 cup
Baking powder: 1 pinch
Butter/Ghee: To knead (almost 1/2 cup)
For decoration:
Colourful icing(Mix little water in castor sugar and add colour of your choice), gems,nuts
Mix flour, sugar, baking powder together and knead with butter. Give the dough to kids to come out with any shapes they want to. Nakshat came up with rat, snail, snake etc(boyz!!)and Gauri made circles and triangles. For decoration nuts have to added at this stage. Arrange nicely on baking dish and bake at 200 degree celsius for 12-15 minutes(depends on the thickness of cookies) Once they are cool let kids decorate them further with icing.
yumms....the sinful chocolate mudpie.. and the cookies...youmms..infact all over till I reached for a second helping.....infact the trifle u made on Sunday was heavenly too.. u shud mention that one!
ReplyDeleteAsked my daughter to try the mud pie recipe...she now wants to make it every second day.
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