Pistachio & Rose Sugar Madeleine

Madeleine. That little delicate French butter tea cake known for it’s beautiful and distinct scalloped shell shape.

Flavours for Madeleines are endless from sweet to savoury, but we like ours with pistachio, a hint of cardamom and garnished with a delicate rose scented sugar.

It’s the prettiest tea time treat for Eid.

Enjoy Lots Of Love 💗

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Pistachio & Rose Sugar Madeleine

Ingredients

2 Large eggs

1/3 cup caster sugar

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

100g melted butter

1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder

1 teaspoon pistachio powder

1/4 cup icing sugar

1/2 tablespoon sugar

1/2 teaspoon rose water

1 tablespoon rose petals

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Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180dc.

2. Greece proof Madeleine tray and dust with flour

3. Whisk together eggs and sugar until frothy.

4. Lightly whisk in the flour, cardamom, pistachio powder. Slowly add in butter and gently mix. Leave to rest for 10 minutes

5. Pour batter into the prepared madeleine tray and bake for up to 10 minutes, or until the mixture has risen and tooth pick comes out clean

6. Transfer the madeleines to a cooling rack and leave leave to rest for up to 30 mins

7. Mix icing sugar with little water and rose water

8. Blitz 1/2 tablespoon sugar and rose petals together

9. Brush little sugar glaze over the the cookie and add sugar rose to garnish with crushed pistachios

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BKD Notes

Only fill half way to avoid over rising

You can add any flavour to the recipe such as lemon, orange or even thyme

Sugar rose is optional but can be stored and used in juice, smoothies, cakes, tea and water

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Gajar Ka Halwa Tres Leches Cake

𝐎𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 !

3 years ago I baked my first Tres Leches recipe which is a soft, tender cake, pored over a mixture of three milks – sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, and full cream milk.

I have previously shared this recipe in flavours of Rose and Rasmalai, and today I present to you another beautiful flavour – “Gajar Ka Halwa”

I have been so excited to share this recipe with you for a while but I couldn’t post until you tried my Gajar Ka Halwa recipe first, and now that is out of the way you can finally try this gorgeous milk cake!

It’s absolutely delicious and I’m certain you are going to love it as much I do!

Gajar Ka Halwa Tres Leches

@tasneemxpatel

Ingredients

For The Cardamom Cake

1 cup all purpose flour

1 & 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 teaspoon cardamom powder

1/4 tsp salt

5 large eggs, separated

1 cup sugar

1/3 cup full cream milk

For The Milk Sauce:

1 and 1/2 cups full cream milk

4 heap tablespoon gajar ka halwa (please find my recipe under IGTV & sweet/indian highlights)

3/4 can evaporated milk

3/4 can condensed milk

For The Topping

250 ml whipping cream

1 teaspoon cardamom powder

2 tablespoon sugar

Method:

Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 180dc. Lightly grease a pan and dust the inside with flour.

2. In a bowl combine flour, baking powder, cardamom powder and salt.

3. Separate the eggs and place in two bowls.

4. In a bowl, add sugar to the egg yolks and beat until egg yolks turn pale yellow. Add 1/3 cup of milk and stir to combine.

5. Slowly add the flour mixture into the egg yolks and mix.

6. In another clean bowl, beat egg whites on high speed till you get stiff peaks

7. Fold the egg whites into the batter.

8. Pour the batter smoothly into the prepared pan.

9. Bake for up to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Milk Sauce:

1. While the cake is baking, blitz Gajar Ka Halwa to a purée

2. Add blitzed Gajar Ka Halwa with full cream milk and bring to a boil, remove off heat and allow this cool at room temperature. 

3. Mix the milk mixture, evaporated and condensed milk together.

Topping:

1. Once the cake has baked let it cool completely,

2. Once cooled use a fork to poke the cake all over, pour half of the milk mixture on top of the cake, and leave aside for 30 minutes. Keeping the balance milk for serving

3. Whip cream, sugar, cardamom powder till you get stiff peaks.

4. Spread this over the cake and refrigerate for half an hour before serving.

5. Garnish as desired

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BKD Notes:

Tres Leches Cake recipe originally inspired from The Pioneer Woman

You can make the Gajar Ka Halwa in advance and freeze little to use for the cake.

You can add orange food colour to the cake to resemble Gajar Halwa

You can replace Gajar Halwa flavours with rose, pistachio & saffron. Please refer to my website for alternative flavour recipes

Bagels

In the month of Ramadan I bake bagels everyday to enjoy with yogurt, dates and Dukkah spice, my kids love it with a spread of Nutella and chopped strawberries. We like our bagels in Ramadan crispy on the outside but chewy and soft on the inside.

For the past 3 years you have been asking me for this recipe and I am finally sharing it with you.

This recipe is so easy that you will never need to buy bagels again, it only requires self raising flour, Greek yogurt and salt!

Bagels

Makes 6-8

Ingredients

1 cup Greek yogurt

1 & 3/4 cup self raising flour

Pinch of salt

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees

2. Combine flour, yogurt and salt in a mixer and mix till it forms a dough

3. Sprinkle flour and knead for 1 min (can do by hand or machine)

4. Roll dough into balls, poke a hole in the center of each ball, then gently stretch the dough into a ring and add onto baking tray

5. Whisk egg with pinch of salt, egg wash and add sesame seeds

6. Bake for up to 20 mins or till lightly brown

BKD Notes:

– If dough is sticky add more flour

– Remove any water from yogurt before mixing into the flour

– add flour onto hands while working with dough

Bagels

Makes 6-8

Ingredients

1 cup Greek yogurt

1 & 3/4 cup self raising flour

Pinch of salt

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees

2. Combine flour, yogurt and salt in a mixer and mix till it forms a dough

3. Sprinkle flour and kneed for 1 min (can do by hand or machine)

4. Roll dough into balls, poke a hole in the center of each ball, then gently stretch the dough into a ring and add onto baking tray

5. Whisk egg with pinch of salt, egg wash and add sesame seeds

6. Bake for up to 20 mins or till lightly brown

BKD Notes:

– If dough is sticky add more flour

– Remove any water from yogurt before mixing into the flour

– add flour onto hands while working with dough

Please note: This recipe credit is unknown, I have tried many 3 ingredient dough recipes from the internet and with trail and error and correct method i have been using this recipe for the past 4 years.