Similar to tiramisu, the marble cake pudding tastes better the more it sits in the fridge. The cake soaks up all the cream and the cocoa powder that is dusted gives it that chocolatey taste. This marble cake pudding is like the OG milk cake of my childhood. The marble cake is tightly layered over which a custard cream is prepared poured and make a couple of layers which is set overnight. The pudding can be topped up with fresh fruits, funfetti, chocolate sprinkles etc.

Whenever mama makes this dessert for a party at home, the dessert dish is always wiped clean.

 

This was a dessert that mama prepared from what a friend of hers was saying in their usual conversation, about a dessert she had at a party. In an Era when there was no google/ YouTube for her to check and try recipes. Basically she was not told the entire ingredients, she made out and made it on her own, voila ! The perfect dessert for parties. I need to try out more recipes from her recipe book, since it's in malayalam, I find it very difficult to read them, yet my sheer curiosity in cooking has helped me learn reading malayalam by reading her recipes. LOL .

 

 

 

* Tastes best the more it sits in the fridge.

** The brand I used for the marble cake is Modern Bakery. It comes as 730 gms, you will only require around half of the cake.

  

One of my favorite summer dessert is this delicious yet so simple Fruit Salad. Especially for the weekends when you have had a heavy meal like biryani, this chilled fruit Salad is all that you want. Childhood memories were that of weekends where the fruit salad wouldn't be spared - Mama's way of getting some fruits into our tummies. Yes! You read that right we were a bunch of kids who hated fruits. Lol. Thinking back I know we should have eaten them fruits. So weekends were incomplete without finding a bowl of fruit salad in the fridge, and that made us so happy after all the play time with friends. Recently I happened to eat this at my bhabhi's place which brought back all the memories. Sometimes the easiest recipes are the best! 

My mom basically used to use the custard powder that came in a tin to make these oh-so-sophisticated dessert, pun intended! I promise you it's super easy! So while this scorching heat made me crave this dessert, to my horror, the custard powder was over. I was so desperate and depressed that I remembered I had stacks of the vanilla dessert mix that I had bought on offer and was waiting to be used. So I immediately thought of using the dessert mix for the custard.

The dessert mix is more Jelly like and may not come to the desired consisI thought to myself. So I decided to add my magic to it. Lol, just kidding! The magic is done by corn flour. I added corn flour slurry mixed in milk to the vanilla dessert milk that was coming to a boil (done as per package instructions), some extra sweetened Condensed milk and a dash of vanilla Essence! Transfered to a bowl, waited to cool and placed a cling film so that the pudding mix does not create a thin layer when it sets. Voila! To my surprise it came out the exact way I wanted. I hand whisked it and added in my chopped fruits, dry fruits, and nuts. (be careful not to add citric and acidic fruits like orange, pineapple). You may instead use canned fruits too, which may include pineapple.

Notes:

*To fasten the process of setting, I placed the custard in the freezer for 1/2 an hour and then left in the fridge for around 2 hrs.

** Do jot add in citrus and acidic in nature fruits like fresh orange, pineapple etc.