• 2 pack of 4 Oreo biscuits
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 3 heapful tbsp of nutella
• Melted dark chocolate for garnishing/ designing

1. Crush your oreo biscuits with butter and add them to your serving shots equally. Press them down gently using a spoon. Allow it to set for 5 minutes in the freezer.
2. In a micrwavable bowl, melt 3 heapfull tbsp of Nutella for 30 seconds.
3. And in a separate bowl whip 1 cup of whipping cream until soft peaks and slowly fold the melted nutella into the whipped cream until combined, dont forget to fold in slow strokes.
4. Now pipe or pour the mousse mixture onto the oreo base that has been set in the fridge.
5. Allow to set for at least 30 minutes and decorate using melted dark chocolate and place half of the oreo biscuits as a topping.
6. Enjoy!

• 1/2 cup/ 4 Egg whites (must not contain egg yolks)
• 1/2 cup - Fine sugar
• 1 tsp lemon juice  
• 1 1/2 tsp Corn Flour
• 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
• A pinch of salt

• 1/4 Cup of Coconut milk powder/ store bought Coconut Cream
• 1-2 tbsp warm water
• 100 gms Fresh Cream
• 2- 3 tbsp Sweetened Condensed Milk 
• 1 tbsp Dessicated Coconut

• Mango, cubed and scooped
• Sour Cherries
• Mint leaves, for garnishing

1. Make sure to wipe the bowl clean with lemon so that no grease remains in your mixing bowl, (if grease remains, the egg whites will not get whipped with stiff peaks).
2. Draw a cirle of 7-8 inches using a plate etc on a baking sheet and fip the baking sheet.
3. Beat the egg whites using a whisk attachment and once it starts to look frothy, sprinkle the sugar 1 tbsp at a time and whip the egg whites to stiff peaks.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Next, add in your lemon juice, corn flour, vanilla and salt and fold the ingredients gently.
5. Transfer the prepared meringue to your baking sheet, using a spatula, carve the meringue with the cirl drawn earlier. Make a slight depression/ using the spatula, swipe the spatula upwards to make markings all over the sides to make it look like a crown.
   
   
   
6. In a preheated oven, of 140 deg C, allow the Pavlova to bake for around 1 hour and 15 minutes and allow the Pavlova to sit and cool in the oven itself, for at least an hour or preferably overnight. The Pavlova will have a slight change in shade of color and the outer will feel dry and hard, while the insides remain soft.

1. Mix the coconut milk powder with little warm water and make a paste. 
2. Add the fresh cream to the coconut milk paste and fold in the fresh cream.
3. Pour the condensed milk and add the Dessicated coconut and combine.
4. Place in refrigerator and allow to cool and thicken before filling the meringue.
5. Fill the Pavlova wuth the coconut cream, right before serving and top with cubed mangoes and place cherries. 
6. Garnish with mint leaves and Enjoy!

• I have made my coconut cream here, you may use whipped cream if you like.
• Make sure not to peep inside the oven while the oven bakes your meringue/pavlova as the resultant temperature differences can cause the pavlova to crack and notattain the perfect texture.
• The baked pavlova can stay in the oven preferably overnight, so that it cools down completely.
• You may store the baked meringue in an airtight container for a few days if not using immediately. 
• Once you add in your whipped cream you have to consume immediately. 
• If you want to store in the fridge, you may do so, but the meringue will not remain crisp and crunchy.

Gajar Ka Halwa is one of my favorite Indian desserts.. (after Gulab jamun🙈). This is a dessert that I have been preparing since a very young age, whenever I felt like having desserts. So experimenting a dessert with my favorite gajar ka Halwa toh Banta hai! 😝

Well, lotus spread and their biscuit are now my biggest obsession.. I try adding them in everything knowingly and unknowingly.. If I say that I am going to make some dessert the hubster keeps pestering me asking if I weren't adding lotus biscuits in it! Haha
So now you know! How much I love them. Contradictory to my liking of these yum lotus biscoff, I do not like to have them plain. I specifically like to have them in dessert. Not even with tea or coffee.

Now coming back to the invention of the trifle, like I said I had been craving carrot halwa since a while, so I made it and it's been quite a while now that this recipe has been sitting in my drafts! It was high time I put to some use for our Eid dessert ideas. I am that person who lovesss cooking and experimenting, but if you ask me what are you making for Eid or any other special occasion I just go blank as if I haven't cooked my entire life. Is it just me? Or is some one able to relate? Let me know in the comments below.
So, coming back to the recipe, I wanted my dessert to be nutty (meaning with nuts and tastes like it). For that I added 1/2 tsp of Almond extract, you may add vanilla extract or completely omit the step.

This trifle is basically layers of rich carrot halwa and luscious Lotus biscoff cream piped in and the chopped almonds in the carrot halwa plays with the textures making it even more scrumptious. This recipe is so easy and so versatile. Well, one thing I can assure you is that gajar ka Halwa and biscoff flavors go hand in hand.

Basically this is a dessert that I prepared when cravinga were at its highest. And that feeling of satisfaction is heavenly. This is dedicated to all lotus biscoff lovers. Advance Eid Mubarak wishes to everyone who is reading this. May Allah accept all our Qiyaam, Siyaam, our duaas and all our good deeds. May Allah make us amongst those who witness the next holy month of Ramadan. Taqqabal Allahu minna wa minkum. 🌹🎀🌹

Ingredients :

• 500 gms Indian Young carrots*, grated
• 2 tbsp pure ghee
• 2 cups milk (or 1 cup milk and 1/2 cup condensed milk)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 tsp cardamom powder
• 4 tbsp chopped almonds
• 1 tbsp ghee (optional)

• 1 Sachet dream whip (whipped according to package instructions)
• 1/2 tsp vanilla/ almond extract (optional)
• 3 tbsp lotus biscoff spread
• 3 tbsp thick cream or fresh cream

1. In a heavy bottom pan bring the milk to a boil. Keep stirring in between, be careful not to burn it.
2. In a large skillet add 2 tbsp ghee and sautee the carrots until the color changes and water is evaporated .
3. Next pour half the milk and cook slowly, mixing in between and add rest and aloow to combine while mixing.
4. Now add 1/2 cup sugar and mix well and add condensed milk if adding.*
5. Finally when little moisture is left, add your cardamom powder and garnish with chopped almonds and your gajar ka halwa is ready. 
6. If your halwa doesn't come off your pan or you want that extra richness finish off by adding 1 tbsp ghee.
7. Now to prepare the lotus biscoff layer, whip the dream whip sachet according to package instructions and vanilla or almond essence (optional)
8. Add to it add melted and cooled lotus biscoff spread and add in your thick/fresh cream.
9. Fold everything gently.
10. Your lotus biscoff cream layer is ready!
11. Now time to aseemble. Add a few spoons of carrot halwa at the bottom of the desset glass/jar.
12. Next pipe the prepared lotus cream. Repeat the process until done.
13. Garnish with almonds and/ leftover gajar ka Halwa. 
    

• I could not get Indian carrots, but using Indian carrots is the best.
• You may use 2 cups whole fat milk or 1 cup milk and 1/2 cup condensed milk.
• You may sautee your almonds in ghee and add.
• If you do not like whipped cream, you may use 200 ml thick cream/fresh cream and add 3 tbsp powdered sugar and fold in the melted lotus spread. 

 Triple Chocolate Hazelnut Skillet Cookie

Ingredients :

Instructions :

• 150 gms dates, pitted 
• 1 cup hot water
• 3/4 baking powder 
• 3/4 baking soda
• 1 egg
• 3/4 Cup All purpose flour 
• 80 gms softened butter
• 1/4 brown sugar

• 50 gms Unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 3/4 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 

1. Preheat your oven to 180°C. 
2. In a heat proof bowl, add your pitted dates, baking soda and pour in the hot water. 
3. Smash the soaked dates using a potato masher. 
4. Next, in a separate bowl, cream butter and brown sugar using an electric mixer. 
5. Add the egg and beat until incorporated.
6. Add the flour and Sprinkle the baking powder and beat lightly until combined. 
7. Next add your mashed dates to the butter-egg mix. And fold until well combined.
8. I like to add a pinch of salt to balance the sweetness. 
9. Pour the batter to a pre lined Loaf pan with Parchment paper. 
10. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until skewer comes out clean. 

1. In a heavy bottom sauce pan, add brown sugar, butter, heavy cream, and allow to boil. 
2. Do not mix continuously, give a stir, or swirl the pan and let it simmer for 2 minutes, switch off the flame. And the toffee sauce is done! 

• Have it warm for extra yummy points! 
• This recipe can be doubled to make in a cake pan, the initial recipe which I followed was that of a cake pan. I wanted to make only for two, so halved the quantities and made in a Loaf pan. 
• You can bake in individual moulds too, just that pour 2/3 of the way up and bake for 25 minutes or until skewer comes out clean. 

• 1 tbsp Sabja seeds
• 3 tbsp Water 
• 2 tbsp Ghee
• 2 tbsp Cashews 
• 1/4 cup Pakistani Vermicelli 
• 3/4 cup Milk
• 1/4 Condensed Milk
• A pinch of Cardamom powder
• A pinch of Salt
• Pulp of 1 Mango 
• Condensed Milk (if required, for added sweetness) 
• Pomegranate seeds, for garnish 
• Ice Cream as topping

1. Soak the Sabja seeds in water and set aside. 
2. Roast the cashews in ghee and transfer to a bowl to cool and roughly chop the roasted cashews and set aside.
3. In the same pan with ghee, break the Pakistani vermicelli and roast them in the ghee for a minute and pour the milk and cook the vermicelli in milk. Add more milk if required. 
4. Finish off with the condensed milk, cardamom powder and a pinch of salt. 
5. In a glass, layer the falooda by adding the Semiya Payasam as the first layer, next add the soaked sabja seeds, mango chunks, mango pulp, and repeat the layers until the glass is full, allow the falooda to chill. 
6. Just before serving, for ease to release the falooda, simply dip the glass in warm water.
7. Now take a pasta bowl, invert the bowl of the glass and flip, now slowly release the glasss upward and you now have deconstructed mango falooda. 
8. Place a scoop of ice cream on top and garnish with mango chunks, pomegranate seeds, chopped ghee roasted cashews and mint leaves (optional). 
9. Enjoy!! 

1. Remove the label of the sweetened Condensed milk and place it in a pressure cooker with water that fills half the pressure cooker. Cook for 1 whistle and allow to simmer on low at least for 20 minutes. 
2. Allow the cooker to release its pressure on its own and allow the pressure cooker and its contents to cool down at leat for 4 hours. **

1. In a food processor, crush the biscuits with melted butter or in a zip lock bag pound the biscuits using a rolling pin. 
2. Now transfer the contents to a loose bottom pie dish and level using the back of a measuring cup. 
3. Allow to refrigerate for at least 10 minutes. 
4. Now whip the cream in a stand mixer or a hand held mixer, add in your vanilla essence and gradually add in your Icing sugar 1 tbsp at a time. 
5. Allow to whip well. Do not over beat. 
6. Now beat the dulce de Leche/Toffee in a bowl using a fork and spread the Toffee over the crushed biscuit layer. 
7. Now layer the sliced bananas in a sequence (like in the image). 
   
   
   
8. Spread the whipped cream, and level it using a spatula.
   
   
   
9. Finally grate the chocolate as garnish or dust some cocoa powder. 
10. Place in the refrigerator, allow to set. 

• *The steps to prepare dulce de Leche has been explained above. 
• ** I like to prepare the dulce de Leche the night before 
• I used a loose bottom pie pan, you may use a cheesecake pan too. 

Ingredients:

Soaking milk:

Cheesecake layer:

Instructions:

• 1 tbsp basil seeds, soaked in water
• 2 tbsp Arrowroot powder, made into a slurry with some water
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup coconut milk (store bought/ freshly squeezed)
• Cardamom powder, a pinch
• 4 - 5 tbsp Sugar
• A scoop of Vanilla Ice cream
• 1 tsp of toasted shredded coconut (for garnishing, optional)
• 2 tbsp Sabudana pearls (soaked in water at least for 3-4 hours), optional 

1. Boil and drain the sabudana pearls that has been soaked and set aside.
2. Into a saucepan, add in your arrowroot slurry, milk, sugar and cardamom powder and bring to a boil, whilst stirring constantly, so that no lumps form.
3. Set the arrowroot custard aside to cool.
4. Blend the arrowroot Custard with coconut milk and chilled milk.
5. Into a tall glass, drop your boiled and cooled sabudana pearls, then pour some of your arrowroot Custard milkshake, drop in some soaked basil seeds, and pour your milkshake, finally drop 1 scoop of vanilla ice cream and pour in your Custard Milkshake.
6. Finally garnish with toasted, sweetened shredded coconut and enjoy!

No Bake Blueberry Cheesecake

 

Ingredients :

Blueberry Compote 

Instructions :

Blueberry compote:

Notes :