This season is all about homemade happiness, so here we bring you Celebrity Chef Christmas recipes to try and enjoy with family & friends .
Pooja Dhingra
Christmas is here. You should definitely try Pooja’s Chocolate mayo cake, because It is. DELICIOUS.
The recipe:
Chocolate Mayo Cake
Ingredients:
- Flour 1 ½ cups
- Caster Sugar 1 ¼ cup
- Cocoa powder½ cup
- Baking powder 1 ½ tsp
- Salt a pinch
- Hellmann’s mayonnaise 2 tbsp
- Milk 1 cup
- Oil ½ cup
- Strawberries for decoration
Process:
- Preheat oven to 165C
- Sieve all the dry ingredients together in a bowl i.e Maida, caster sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, milk and oil.
- Pour wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and whisk until well combined.
- Pour the batter into a 6 inch ring.
- Bake at 165C for 22-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Garnish with
- And that’s it! Enjoy the yumminess!
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Chef Shivesh
Christmas Special:
Rum Cake For Christmas
Ingredients
For fruits:
- 2 cups mixed dried fruits and nuts, roughly chopped
- 1 + ½ cup (360mL) orange juice
- ½ cup (113g) butter
- 150 mL Captain Morgan Original Rum
For cake batter :
- 2 cups (240g) flour
- 1 tsp (4g) baking powder
- 1 tsp (4g) cinnamon powder
- ½ tsp (2g) ginger powder
- ¼ tsp (1g) grated nutmeg
- 1 tbsp (6g) fresh orange zest
- 1 cup (226g) butter, softened
- 1 cup (200g) castor sugar
- ⅓ cup (67g) brown sugar
- 4 eggs
Instructions
- Place the roughly chopped fruits and nuts in a bowl.
- In a saucepan set over medium heat, bring the orange juice to a boil. Add butter and let it melt.
- Set if off the heat and add Captain Morgan Original Rum. Mix well.
- Pour the rum mixture over the fruits. Cling wrap it and let it sit overnight.
- Next day, preheat the oven to 180C and line a 9” cake pan with parchment paper.
- In a medium down, whisk flour, cinnamon, ginger powder, nutmeg and orange zest.
- In another bowl, beat both sugars and butter until the mixture is light and fluffy.
- Add eggs, one at a time and beat well after each addition.
- Combine the wet and dry ingredients.
- Mix in the rum soaked fruits along with the liquid.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake at 180C for 40-50 minutes
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Chef Amrita Raichand
A ‘Mommy Chef’ who firmly believes that “healthy need not be boring.”
Christmas Special
Fun Fruit & Chocolate Canapes
Ingredients:
- Fresh cream- 200 ml
- Chopped Chocolate or chocolate chips- 200 gms
- Orange zest- 2 tsp
- Chopped Apple- 1
- Chopped Banana- 1
- Chopped Pear- 1
- Orange juice- 1/4th cup
- Cinnamon powder- 1/2 tsp
- Canapés- 20 pieces
Method
- Heat the fresh cream in a pan. Once it starts to bubble from the sides, add the chocolate chips. Keep stirring on low heat till the chocolate melts.
- Add the orange zest to it & mix well. Add the ganache to the pipping bag.
- Dice the fruits (apple,banana,pears)
- Mix them in a bowl & add orange juice to prevent them from browning & to bump up the flavour. Also add the cinnamon powder and give it a final mix.
- Pipe the chocolate ganache in the canapés. Top with the fruit mixture & serve at room temperature or cold.
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Chef Ranveer Brar
Chef at Heart – Chef at soul, Author, TV show host, MasterChef India judge and food explorer
Christmas Special
Fruit Cake
Ingredients
- 180 gm Butter
- 180 gm Sugar
- 2 tbsp Tutti fruiti
- 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- 180 gm Flour
- 4 Eggs
- ¼ cup Almonds, chopped
- ¼ cup walnuts chopped
- ¼ cup Tutti fruiti
Process
- In a mixing bowl, add butter, sugar, tutti fruiti and mix well till the butter change the colour.
- Add vanilla essence, flour and mix well, add egg and mix well.
- Add almonds, walnuts, tutti fruiti mix well by cut and fold method.
- Grease the mould with butter and place butter papper.
- Pour the batter into the mould and bake it at 165 to 170 for 40 minutes.
- Dust icing sugar over the cake. Let cool a bit. Cut and serve.
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Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.