Day #5: Layered Crêpe Cake with Banana & Nutella Filling

Hello everybody!! I'm back with my Nutella 7-days marathon. I'm sorry for the break.. Sometimes I feel continuity is not my game.. :(

Whenever I think of something that is in between omlette and a pancake and of course better than both, then it is a crêpe... Preparing crêpe is not so common in my kitchen but I always love to have it with nutella and banana. Crêpe with nutella and banana is one of my favourite combos.

With this I got the idea of doing something with nutella and I got the recipe of the day & recipe for the marathon, "Layered Crêpe Cake with Banana & Nutella Filling". A cake that requires no baking.....

Initially, my plan was to prepare a pure Nutella Crêpe cake but then I modified my recipe by adding banana to it. Believe me guys, it was a Yum Yum!!

Here we go with the recipe:

Ingredients:

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup water
1/4 tsp Salt
1 tsp sugar
2 tbsp Butter, melted
2 tbsp Nutella
1 banana, thinly sliced

Method:

Sieve the flour into a deep bowl. Add egg and start whisking. Pour milk little-by-little and mix well. Add water, salt, sugar and 1 tbsp butter and mix well until smooth. The batter should be of heavy cream consistency.

Heat a non-stick pan at medium heat. Pour 2 tbsp batter and swirl into round shape. Cook for a minute or until golden brown and flip to other side for few seconds. Remove from heat. Let it cool for sometime.

Meanwhile, heat Nutella along with 1 tbsp butter for about 20 seconds in microwave. It depends on the microwave, so check in between. Nutella must be a smooth consistency so it will be easy to work with.

Now layer each crêpe with Nutella in between them. I included banana slices after 5 layers of crêpe with nutella filling and then another banana layer after next 5 layers of crêpe.

Cover the final layer of crêpe and edges with remaining Nutella. Garnish with banana slices.

Enjoy!!

Sending this to Rumana's "Treat to Eyes: Series 1" event.

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Affogato

Coffee lovers rejoice! Here's the wonderful treat which goes as an entry for my blog's first event "Celebrate Sweets - Ice creams"...  This Italian dessert is so simple yet absolutely divine.. A scoop of vanilla ice cream with a shot of hot expresso poured over makes it one of the perfect pleasures you can have with ice cream..

I found this recipe at foodnetwork.com.

So, lets move on to the recipe.

Ingredients:

1 pint of vanilla ice cream
1/2 cup - hot expresso
1 tbsp finely chopped semi-sweet chocolate

Method:

• Divide ice creams among the dessert bowls.
• Pour expresso over the ice cream.
• Sprinkle chopped chocolate and serve immediately.



 Enjoy!!

Sending as entry to "Celebrate Sweets - Ice cream" hosted by me and started by Nivedita.

Also, sending to Bookmarked Recipes event by Aipi & Priya.

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Celebrate Sweets - "Ice Cream" !! Event Announcement And A Giveaway..

I'm happy to announce "Celebrate Sweets - Ice Cream" event at Rasoi. And I would like to thank Nivedita for giving me this oppurtunity. This is the first event hosted at Rasoi and look at the coincidence, the first event I've participated in was "Celebrate Sweets - Halwa". I guess that was the starting of "Celebrate Sweets" event series.

I know it's still cold in some parts of the country.. Then "Ice Cream"? Well with this event, we all can share our recipes and we will be all set with a huge collection of sizzling recipes for upcoming summer...

As the theme suggests "Ice Cream" your recipe must have ice cream as the main ingredient. So you are all free to play with it and come up with your creativity..

Also, I've a $25 CSN gift code for a lucky participant and the winner will be picked by a random draw. The winner can use the gift code on any of CSN's 200+ online stores. Here you can find everything from chic pendant lighting to cute cookware to stylish modern dining room furniture.

"Celebrate Sweets - Ice Cream" Event Rules:

• Starting from today till April 6, 2011, 11:59 PM (PST) make anything sweet that includes ice cream in it.
• Eggs are allowed in your dish.
• You should add the event banner and link back to this event announcement page and also to Nivedita's event announcement page.
• Older entries are accepted if reposted and updated with the link to the event announcement .
• You can enter as many links as you want.
• CSN gift card winner will be drawn using random.org
• The event is open to everyone but the giveaway is open to USA and Canada residents due to shipping constraint. Indian-bloggers can gift it to their U.S. friends. I encourage everyone to participate in this event and share their recipes with the other blogger friends.
• Non bloggers can email me their recipes and picture of dish at reshrite@gmail.com with the subject "Celebrate Sweets - Ice Cream".
• The CSN winner will be declared on April 7, 2011.

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Day #4: Nutella Souffle

I'm so happy when I see my Nutella turning out so good.. It's such a WOW to work with.. I never thought that you can do lot more with Nutella apart from just a spread on a slice of bread..

My 7-days marathon with Nutella is getting more n more addicting.. And "Nutella Souffle" is one of the outcomes of this passion...

For all the beliefs about this french dessert, souffles are not that hard to make. All you need to do is beat the egg whites to soft peak and then nothing stands in between you and your souffle. And I believe bakers are always ready for challenges!!

Also, you will find that the souffles will rise up while baking but will deflate and sink down as they cool off (as seen in the image below). This was so amazing to observe.. I'm in love with this dessert..

So lets move on to the recipe...

Ingredients: (2 servings)

2 tbsps Nutella
4 tbsps granulated sugar, divided

1 tbsp all-purpose flour
1 large egg white
1 tbsps milk (I've used 2%)
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp powdered sugar

Cooking spray

Method:

Preheat oven to 350F.


Coat ramekin (6-ounce) with cooking spray; sprinkle each with granulated sugar.

Combine 2 tbsp granulated sugar, flour, nutella, and milk in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook 2 minutes, stirring until smooth.

Pour this mixture into a medium bowl; let it cool for sometime. Stir in vanilla.

Place egg white in a medium bowl; beat until soft peaks form. Add remaining granulated sugar, beating until stiff peaks form (do not overbeat). Gently stir 1/4 of egg white mixture into chocolate mixture; gently fold in remaining egg white mixture. Spoon mixture into prepared dishes. Sharply tap dishes 2 or 3 times to level. Add 1 tsp of Nutella in middle of the mixture. This will give souffle a goey center. Place dishes on a baking sheet.

Bake at 350F for 15 minutes or until puffy and set. Sprinkle each souffle with 1/2 teaspoon powdered sugar. Serve immediately.

Sending it to Rumana's "Treat to Eyes: Series 1" event.

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Day #3: Nutella Little Hearts

While I was writing this post, I was thinking about my school and college days memories.. In between school n coaching classes we used to get few hrs gap but not enough to go home, get fresh n come back.. So what we used to do is head straight towards our favourite hang-out.. "Satyam Bakery" or "Utkal Sweets" or "Jalaram Sweets n Snacks".. Apart from tasting all types of pasteries, puffs, street food, there were two items which were "The must" for each one of us... "Britannia Little Hearts" and "a bottle of Pepsi or Coke or Fanta"...

A pack of little hearts will have not more than 15 biscuits and costs around 10 bucks, I suppose. This was way too costly to spend everyday with your pocket-money. But when this truly divine sweet biscuit melt into your mouth you usually forget about your pocket-money or those 10 bucks for 15 pieces.. That's the magic of "Britannia's Little Hearts"..

To be honest, when I came to U.S. I realized what's famous as "Little Hearts" is actually a French pastery called "Palmiers".. But still I would like to name my recipe as "Nutella Little Hearts" rather than "Nutella Palmiers"... :D

So, now lets move on to the recipe..

Ingredients:

Puff pastry sheet
Nutella - 2 tbsp/ pastry sheet or depends on your taste
Powdered Sugar - to sprinkle (optional)

Method:

1. Thaw the puff pastry. Unfold one pastry sheet and roll out with rolling pin, if required.

2. Fold the longest sides towards the center of the sheet. Gently roll the pin over it. Spread nutella over the sheet.

3. Again fold the longest sides towards the center. If you want you can spread another layer of nutella. Otherwise, dampen one side with water, fold it over the other side and gently roll the pin over it.

Do not press hard or else nutella will pop out from the open ends. Cover the log with a plastic wrap and refrigerate it for 1 hr.

Preheat oven to 425F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or foil.

Take out the folded pastry and cut into thin slices.

Place on the baking sheet . Bake for 8-10 mins, or until golden. Transfer to wire rack and let it cool down to room temperature.

Serve & Enjoy!!!

Sending it to Rumana's "Treat to Eyes: Series 1" event.

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Day #2: Deep Fried Nutella

Last summer when Yummy team's fried ice cream won ST's Sizzling Summer Contest I was so amazed to find a recipe where you can fry ice cream.. That was unbelievable for me and even I gave it a try when I was in India.. After that this has become one of the hits in my mom's kitchen and also my 11 year old brother's favourite dessert..  ;)

Yesterday when I started 7 days marathon "Nutella Week", I had no idea what are those 7 recipes that I'm going to try with Nutella except "Nutella Cold Coffee"... So I started going through my bookmarked recipes in search of one that can be possibly tried with Nutella and I came across YT's fried ice cream... And there I got the idea of "Deep Fried Nutella".

At first sight, I felt it will be very easy to repeat the process with Nutella but then later on I realized "You gotta break your head for this"..

Firstly, Nutella has much smoother texture when compared to ice cream. So if you try to roll them into balls, there is a possibility that nutella may ooze out of the coating. Secondly, if I freeze it for sometime and then try to work with it. Then it is another big NO NO!! It is somewhat difficult to work with freezed nutella.. So now what next??

There is an option in between the two impossible options and with utmost care you can get the desired outcome.. What's that? Hold on guys.. There is always climax for every movie no matter how damm boring it is.. So just wait and keep reading..

Well well.. I will reveal this later on.. Let us move to the recipe.. :) Hope you will like it!!

Ingredients:

Bread (preferably white bread as it binds together easily. But I worked with wheat bread, my another challenge) - 2 slice per ball
Nutella - 1 tbsp per ball
Oil - for deep frying

Method:

Trim the bread crusts and place a tbsp of nutella over one trimmed slice.. There are lots of way of coating.. Here we are using bread slices. But we can use cornflakes, bread crumbs and powdered nuts.. And that requires even more patience to work on this dessert.. But it is always easy to use bread slices esp. white bread.

Place another slice over it and press firmly the sides of the slices. Do not start rolling it into a ball as nutella is very smooth in texture and may pop out. So just seal the sides of the bread slices and refrigerate it for minimum 1 hr.

Now take it out and immediately start rolling it into balls.. At this point, nutella has harden so it will become easy to work on..

After rolling into balls refrigerate it for another 1 hr or you can refrigerate it overnight.. You can preserve it for 2-3 days.

Deep fry them for 20-30 seconds as we do not want nutella to start melting.. Also bread gets fried soon. So remove it from heat as soon as you find bread turning golden brown in color. You will get yummy nutella covered with hot crispy bread.

Drizzle some honey or chocolate syrup and you are all set to impress your guests.. I'm sure your kids will love them...!!

Enjoy!!

Sending this to Priya Mitharwal's "Celebrate Sweets - Warm Desserts" event started by Nivedita.

Also, sending it to Nivedita's "Only Original Recipes" event started by Pari.

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Day #1: Nutella Cold Coffee

I remember the first time I read about Nutella was in Aipi's blog and the first time I tasted Nutella was at a potluck party. And believe me guys, it's almost more than 6 months I'm planning to get a pack of Nutella for me but all in vane... Finally, last weekend I bought my favo Nutella and I was so eager to try out all those recipes that were bookmarked and  were waiting for Nutella to be made available in my kitchen.

Now I'm all set with my Nutella and I've decided to celebrate the seven days including today as "Nutella Week". So starting from today, each day will have recipes dedicated to Nutella...

Today's star recipe is Aipi's famous Nutella Cold Coffee.. Within 2 hrs of this post by Aipi, Priya Mitharwal tried it and posted it on her blog.. Now you guys can imagine the charm of this recipe.. But, I had to wait for almost seven months to try it out and here I've it to share on my blog.. Trust me guys! it tastes divine..

Yesterday I had my class at 4:00pm and I had brunch at 11:00 am. So you can understand, by 2:00 pm  I was craving to have something.. Besides having lots of assignments I had no time to prepare some snacks.. At that moment I saw my sweetie Nutella, still unopened, waiting for me.. How I can resist this? I jumped off my chair and within minutes I had my glass of Nutella cold coffee... I'm satisfied!! Thanks to Aipi for sharing this recipe..

 Here is the recipe!! I've almost followed the recipe by Aipi.

Ingredients:

 

Milk - 1 cup (I've used 2% milk)

Instant Coffee - 1 1/2 tsp

Nutella - 4 tsp

Sugar - 1 tbsp

Vanilla Ice cream - 1 scoop (for topping)

Method:

Blend all the ingredients except ice cream until it mixes well into smooth and frothy. Pour in a glass garnished with chocolate syrup. Top it with vanilla ice cream or whipping cream. Sprinkle some coffee powder over it and serve immediately..

Enjoy!!

I felt my assignments were getting over much faster with every sip of this delicious drink..  

Sending this to Tried & Tasted hosted by Priya Mitharwal.

Also, linking to Aipi & Priya's Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday - Volume 30.

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