Well Hello!
Happy Halloween!
We may not be celebrating Halloween here in Ranchi,India...but the excitement in blogosphere is palpable.So...
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Every blogger worth their salt is doing Pumpkin-is that to say that I am not worth my salt...maybe ...but I am definitely worth the tons of sugar, I ensure that people around me consume!
Did I stop at- doing pumpkin??Let me continue, before I ramble off again.
Pumpkin cupcakes, pumpkin pies and pumpkin cookies...
I get the fact that pumpkins are highly nutritious and fibrous and all that jazz...
But there are other things which are better...no?
Like Chocolate and butter!
Sweet child loves the gruesome...eye popping out on the cupcake ...eyeballs popping out anywhere will make himhappy!
Whats better?
There were no takers for pumpkin in my neighbourhood, and frankly , our pumpkins are not as pretty as those that grow on the other side of the world.
But the thing that fascinates sweet child ,besides the candy and the sugar rush , are the ghost stories and the scary stories.
That and some interesting Monster cupcakes, for monstrous appetites.
Growing boys...and in their company, one little girl ensures that her share doesn't get consumed by their voracious appetites.
The cupcakes accompanied some storytelling...sweet child has been fed these stories since he was tiny. Loved them then and loves them today too...
Macabre tales of blood oozing down the freshly painted walls of a newly built house...because the owner had been cursed by a magician.
My favourite, the story of how a Pathan was bitten by a werewolf and then he bit and killed an Englishman, and many piles of human bones were found in the village butcher's home.
The story of a soldier, who returned from the war front to find his village wiped out by the plague, and he outwitted a witch (called a chudail in Hindi) by escaping in the carcass of a venerable cow...
Then one of a ghost wielding a lantern guiding a train ,and forcing it to stop just where the railroad track was broken...
I know these are not as scary as the Amity ville horror story or the paranormal activity series,but at least you an sleep in your own room after these little stories.
One about a face less boy who was crying in the forests of Simla...
I have more...
And some of these came from a much beloved book...
Do you have a favourite scary story??Why don't you sit with these adorable cuppies , your favourite person and a book like this...
What can be better than that??The company of your favourite people is better than butter! I did not say chocolate!
This is the same recipe as the one I used for the birthday cake for Mahika. We made these cup cakes half chocolate and half vanilla. And used Butter Cream frosting in many colours and sprinkle.
We don't have access to marshmallow or licorice or cute looking candy in Ranchi, but we get by!
The kids were happy and there was Halloween, albeit Desi style!
Try them, and enjoy the spirit.
for the
Halloween Special Egg less/Egg Free Cup Cakes...
you need
One recipe Egg free/Egg less sponge cake
Half recipe Butter Cream Frosting
2 tbsp cocoa powder
Lots of food colour, sprinkles , piping bags and nozzles
And time!!
The basic cake, I can recite like a rhyme
1 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 cup yogurt
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda/baking soda
Oven on at 180C/350F and line your muffin pan.
Follow the directions and make the batter for the Egg free/Egg less sponge cake . Place half in another bowl.
Blend the cocoa with 2 tbsp hot water and mix into the lesser half of the batter.
Place one spoon vanilla batter and then one spoon chocolate batter into the muffin cups. You can swirl them around with a toothpick to get a marble effect or just leave them to their own devices.
In the oven for 15 minutes and they are done.
We got 14 cup cakes.
Leave them to cool.
Get the Butter Cream Frosting ready.
Divide into 4 -5 bowls and tint with different colours.
We used Blue, purple, brown and white.
Grass tip nozzle and blue frosting for the Cookie Monster.
With eyes and a cheeky smile
And then we tried to make gravestones...but our markers were too large...so they Rested in peace!
Yes, that baby was intrigued...
The entire exercise was to have a lot of fun, gossip and swap stories...and the children enjoyed themselves!
I have a tale to tell too!
I remember, many years ago...I was young and gullible...
Two cousins and I,draped in white bed sheets with small torches in our mouths made screechy noises and moans out side an older cousins bed room door in the middle of the night.She was in her first year of med school and had been creeping us out with her tales of her seemingly frightening trysts with the cadavers...
We were swaying in the dark, moonless night ...hoping to hear her run out screeching like a banshee , only nothing happened. And then suddenly there was a ghost behind us...
BOO!!!
The ghost lifted its veils...and much to our disgust...Ramia di was grinning from ear to ear!
That was probably the scared-est I have ever felt...
But the cupcakes and the frosting combination was yummm!!!!
The cakes had the texture of a cake with eggs, and they were soft and smelt nice.
Try them, you don't need Halloween...
Any day will do!
Just bake and attack!!
Its all about having fun and cake and eating it too!
Hope you had a lovely time..now snuggle up to your favourite person and tell some scary tales...
So what are you baking today???
Happy Halloween!
Did I stop at- doing pumpkin??Let me continue, before I ramble off again.
Pumpkin cupcakes, pumpkin pies and pumpkin cookies...
I get the fact that pumpkins are highly nutritious and fibrous and all that jazz...
But there are other things which are better...no?
Like Chocolate and butter!
Sweet child loves the gruesome...eye popping out on the cupcake ...eyeballs popping out anywhere will make himhappy!
There were no takers for pumpkin in my neighbourhood, and frankly , our pumpkins are not as pretty as those that grow on the other side of the world.
But the thing that fascinates sweet child ,besides the candy and the sugar rush , are the ghost stories and the scary stories.
That and some interesting Monster cupcakes, for monstrous appetites.
Growing boys...and in their company, one little girl ensures that her share doesn't get consumed by their voracious appetites.
Macabre tales of blood oozing down the freshly painted walls of a newly built house...because the owner had been cursed by a magician.
My favourite, the story of how a Pathan was bitten by a werewolf and then he bit and killed an Englishman, and many piles of human bones were found in the village butcher's home.
The story of a soldier, who returned from the war front to find his village wiped out by the plague, and he outwitted a witch (called a chudail in Hindi) by escaping in the carcass of a venerable cow...
Then one of a ghost wielding a lantern guiding a train ,and forcing it to stop just where the railroad track was broken...
I know these are not as scary as the Amity ville horror story or the paranormal activity series,but at least you an sleep in your own room after these little stories.
One about a face less boy who was crying in the forests of Simla...
I have more...
And some of these came from a much beloved book...
What can be better than that??The company of your favourite people is better than butter! I did not say chocolate!
This is the same recipe as the one I used for the birthday cake for Mahika. We made these cup cakes half chocolate and half vanilla. And used Butter Cream frosting in many colours and sprinkle.
We don't have access to marshmallow or licorice or cute looking candy in Ranchi, but we get by!
The kids were happy and there was Halloween, albeit Desi style!
Try them, and enjoy the spirit.
for the
Halloween Special Egg less/Egg Free Cup Cakes...
you need
One recipe Egg free/Egg less sponge cake
Half recipe Butter Cream Frosting
2 tbsp cocoa powder
Lots of food colour, sprinkles , piping bags and nozzles
And time!!
The basic cake, I can recite like a rhyme
1 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 cup yogurt
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda/baking soda
Oven on at 180C/350F and line your muffin pan.
Follow the directions and make the batter for the Egg free/Egg less sponge cake . Place half in another bowl.
Blend the cocoa with 2 tbsp hot water and mix into the lesser half of the batter.
Place one spoon vanilla batter and then one spoon chocolate batter into the muffin cups. You can swirl them around with a toothpick to get a marble effect or just leave them to their own devices.
In the oven for 15 minutes and they are done.
We got 14 cup cakes.
Leave them to cool.
Get the Butter Cream Frosting ready.
Divide into 4 -5 bowls and tint with different colours.
We used Blue, purple, brown and white.
Grass tip nozzle and blue frosting for the Cookie Monster.
With eyes and a cheeky smile
The entire exercise was to have a lot of fun, gossip and swap stories...and the children enjoyed themselves!
I have a tale to tell too!
I remember, many years ago...I was young and gullible...
Two cousins and I,draped in white bed sheets with small torches in our mouths made screechy noises and moans out side an older cousins bed room door in the middle of the night.She was in her first year of med school and had been creeping us out with her tales of her seemingly frightening trysts with the cadavers...
We were swaying in the dark, moonless night ...hoping to hear her run out screeching like a banshee , only nothing happened. And then suddenly there was a ghost behind us...
BOO!!!
The ghost lifted its veils...and much to our disgust...Ramia di was grinning from ear to ear!
That was probably the scared-est I have ever felt...
But the cupcakes and the frosting combination was yummm!!!!
The cakes had the texture of a cake with eggs, and they were soft and smelt nice.
Any day will do!
Just bake and attack!!
Its all about having fun and cake and eating it too!
Hope you had a lovely time..now snuggle up to your favourite person and tell some scary tales...
So what are you baking today???
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