Baking my own bread

Last week I baked bread and it was kinda fun. So thought of just putting up some pictures of my bread. This was my husband's idea that we should try out bread baking.

Baked it using the bread mix so not much of recipe to put on here - just added bread mix and warm water to make a dough. And after rolling it into various shapes and sizes, baked it in the oven.

Dry fruits and chocolate chip cake

Ingredients :

250 gm self raising flour

250 gm caster sugar

250 gm butter

50 gm cocoa 

1/2 cup mixed dry fruits (raisins, apricots, cherry, pineapple)

1/2 cup chocolate chips

 4 eggs

Method :

1. Melt the butter and add the eggs to it. Beat the mixture together to get a fine consistency.

2. Add sugar to the mixture and beat again.

3. Slowly add the flour and cocoa to the mixture and beat it to maintain the consistency. Ensure that no lumps are formed.

4. To this add the dry fruits and choco chips.

5. Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees C. 

6. Grease the cake pan with butter on the bottom and the sides. And pour the cake batter in the pan.

7. Bake the cake for 20 minutes. 

8. Remove and check if the cake is done. You can put a knife through the cake and check if the knife comes out clean. If it does, then the cake is almost done. If the knife is a little sticky, bake the cake for some more time.

Decoration:

You can use an icing roll on the cake for decoration.

For home made icing - Melt a chocolate bar and using a knife spread smoothly on the cake surface and sides. 

Decorate the cake with choco chips, cherries, pineapples or sugar strands.

Tips:

If you do not have cocoa, i use drinking chocolate as a substitute.

You can cut the chocolate bar into pieces to make the choco chips.

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients
1 cup flour (maida)
2 eggs
2 tbsp cocoa powder
3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup milk

Method
1. Preheat oven at 180 degrees in convection mode
2. Grease cake tin with a little butter
3. Mix flour,cocoa, baking powder together
4. Beat butter, sugar and egg till it becomes fluffy. Whip them properly.
5. Slowly mix the above two together. Add a little milk to smooth the batter. Add cherries, tutifruity, etc in the batter - if you want
6. Pour the cake batter into the greased cake dishand bake the cake for 35-40 mins at 180 degrees on convection mode only.

Chocolate cookies

I loved my own cookies. For a first try, they were pretty good.
Took the recipe from a book and modified them to my liking.

Goes well with hot or cold coffee.

Ingredients:
1.5 cup flour (maida)
3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1 tbsp cocoa powder
1/4 tbsp baking powder
2-3 tbsp milk
1 beaten egg

Method:
1. Preheat oven at 180 degrees on Convection mode.
2. Mix beaten egg, butter and sugar together and whip them all together
3. Mix flour, cocoa powder and baking powder
4. Mix all ingredients together and knead them into a dough.
5. Make round balls of the dough (or any shape for your cookies)
6. Place the cookies on a greased dish and bake them for around 20-30 minutes at convection mode in the microwave
7. Let the cookies bake till they turn golden brown.