Eggless Chocolate Melting Moments | Melting Moments with Chocolate | Step by Step Recipe

After the brownie and fudge I thought I must make some cookies and was browsing some chocolate books that I have on hand. Then deciding that Internet must have some good eggless cookies, I landed in Joy of baking space to discover these melting moments. Then I realized that in recent times I have seen so many versions of this on many blogs. I liked the simple one that this recipe gave and I simply added cocoa to make it chocolate.

My boys refuse to eat anything that doesn't look like chocolate. On reading the description it is said that these melting moments are similar to yet another version of cookies called the Mexican wedding cakes. Both the cookies are round balls, dusted with confectioners sugar. And both are butter based that gives that melt in the mouth taste. The only difference between the both is that ground nuts are used in Mexican Wedding Cakes, while cornstarch is used in melting moments...how delicious. My next venture will surely be Mexican wedding cake, or maybe I have already made it without knowing the name.

We were off to our sis-in-laws place for pongal and just came back. I baked a huge batch of four different cookies for them. Everybody loved and were so amazed that those were homemade. These melt in the mouth cookies were so much of a hit and my kids loved it. Especially the sugar dusted on the top made these so delicious to munch on.

Eggless Chocolate Melting Moments Recipe

Ingredients Needed:

All purpose flour / Maida - 1 cup
Cornstarch / Cornflour - 1/2 cup
Powdered Sugar / Icing Sugar - 3/4 cup
Butter - 3/4 cup(in room temperature)
Cocoa powder - 2 tsps
Icing Sugar for dusting - 2 tbsp

How to bake Melting Moments:

In a bowl, sieve the flour cornflour and cocoa powder together. In another bowl, cream the sugar and butter together well till it becomes soft and fluffy. Then add the flour the butter slowly and mix well. The dough will be soft and easy to handle.

Pre heat the oven at 185 Deg C, grease a baking tray and drop in balls of the dough on the greased tray.

Bake the cookies at 185 C for 15 mins. Once done check and make sure it's cooked. Bake for another 5 mins and allow to cool. Sometimes it may take another 10 more minutes.

Let it cool completely before removing from the tray and dusting with some icing sugar.

Once it's cooled the sugar gets into the cookies and you get that soft melt in the mouth taste.

Sending this to:
Kavi, who is guest hosting Kid's Delight themed on Something Sweet

and my own Chocolate Mela


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Eggless Microwave Brownie with Nutella | Chocolate Recipes | Step by Step Recipe

When it comes to cakes or muffins, my kids love only chocolate base. It's such a thing that they will not even touch if it's not chocolate. I have made many versions of easy and quick Microwave Mug Cakes. These are so quick to make that you can for your kids in a jiffy.

For the second day I thought of making another version of 1 minute Eggless Cake in Microwave. This is inspired from so many other bookmarked recipes. The recent one that I loved was from Vardhini, who was inspired from Pages, who had originally adapted from Mons Chocolate Mug Cake. See how much a chocolate can pass on! For the all the chocolate lovers out there, this is a beautiful recipe. Thank you ladies..:) I have further tweaked to suit my own taste.

I made this along with the Chocolate Fudge, since it was taking time to set I thought I will make a cake meanwhile to pacify my boys. The moment I made this, it disappeared and there was more demands for more to be made. This was made again right away and that kind of set things alright.

This is surely another version that I am going to be making quite often.

Ingredients Needed:

All purpose flour / Maida - 2 tbsp
Icing Sugar - 3 tbsp
Cocoa powder -  3/4 tbsp
Baking powder -  1/2 tsp
Baking soda  a pinch
Curds/ Yogurt - 1 & 1/2 tbsp
Milk- 1 & 1/2 tbsp
Olive Oil- 1 & 1/2 tbsp
Nutella  1 tbsp

How to make Eggless Microwave Brownie

In a mixing bowl, shift the flour with baking soda, icing, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda.

Next add yogurt, milk, oil. And finally add the nutella. Mix well.

Microwave this mixture in a microwave safe bowl.

Microwave for 1 minute, then followed by 30 secs. Let it stand for 30 secs if you feel.
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Notes:
Since this rises while cooking, use either a tall cup or a bowl.
Serving Suggestions: Dazzle some chocolate syrup over it and serve warm

Sending this to:
Kavi, who is guest hosting Kid's Delight themed on Something Sweet
Kalyani who is hosting MEC, for the January Edition
and my own Chocolate Mela

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Easy Fudge Recipe | How to make Fudge in Microwave | Chocolate Fudge with Condensed Milk ~ Step by Step Recipe

When I decided on the Blogging Marathon this month, it never struck me that we are going out of town during the Pongal holidays and that I might not be exactly at my desk to check it out. Once I was over my apprehension on that fact, I decided I should at least make these chocolate dishes ready ahead so that I can plan well. Athamma left for her home town a week ahead of us. The day being a Sunday, I decided to make my chocolate dishes in the evening.

First was this simple Fudge recipe where I used only the Semi Sweet Chocolate chunks with Condensed Milk. This is such a quick dish to make, though if you really want to eat it as a fudge you got to wait for at least an hour for it to get solid.  Chinnu was restless and eat it much earlier and loved it every bit. I literally had to hide it for clicking some pictures. Then again I am always in a rush that my pictures these days are so hurried.

Today we are starting the 12th Edition of Blogging Marathon, and I decided on making Chocolates. Since I have Chocolate Mela going on, what other way to enjoy mine and my kid's favorite. So for the next seven days I will be sharing my most liked chocolate recipes.

There is no dearth of chocolate recipes that I have filed up to try. However inspiration for this comes from a glance at one of the cooking show that comes in Chutti TV that runs non stop at my place. I must have seen this recipe couple of times but both the times I was just passing by and I noticed chocolate chip and condensed milk was used. Since I wasn't up to using up my stock of chocolate chips, I thought I should make use of the cooking chocolate slabs that I have with me. I was just going on a hunch to make this and knew however it turns out, I will still have takers for chocolate at home.

Just as thought, my kids loved it. The fudge looked best, in the actual Fudge like after two days, when I tried my best to save up the stock and not let the kids complete it right then. Make very small pieces and stock, use very sparingly as it's highly addictive and you can't just stop with one!

Step by Step Picture Recipe

This is a super quick method to make Chocolate Fudge in Microwave.

Ingredients Needed:

Semi Sweet Chocolates - 1 cup
Condensed Milk - 1/4 cup

How make quick and easy Chocolate Fudge:

In a microwave safe bowl, take the semi sweets chocolate chunks and nuke for a min. Remove and whisk for couple of times. Then again put it back for 30 secs.

Depending on your microwave you may need to micro for another 30 secs. But be very cautious to confirm the chocolate is melted is not getting burnt.

Remove and whisk again for a smooth texture.

Add condensed milk and microwave for 1 min 30 secs. Whisk well to get a smooth sauce.

Prep a plate and cover with aluminum foil. Grease with butter/ ghee.  Pour the chocolate sauce over the prepped plate and refrigerate for at least an hour. Cube into smaller pieces and indulge in this sinful temptations.

While I was making it Konda was restless to taste. When she did, she said it tastes so much like cadburys' dairy milk chocolate. And couldn't wait to eat it. I always think the best compliment she gives is when she says she wants to take it for her friends.

Sending this to:
Kavi, who is guest hosting Kid's Delight themed on Something Sweet
Kalyani who is hosting MEC, for the January Edition
and my own Chocolate Mela

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Homemade Chocolate Recipe 2 | How to make Chocolate at home with Step by Step Recipe

Yes this is Homemade Chocolate recipe 2. I have another recipe, which dates back to almost 15 yrs ago when I last made it. I must dig out that recipe soon. The previous chocolate recipe is done in microwave, while this recipe is completely on the stove top.

When I decided to make some sweet dishes from the collection of back covers, I came across this interesting recipe for Cocoa powder. Yes I easily fall for anything that has cocoa, and have collected many recipes using that.

This recipe on the cover is for Homemade Chocolates. It calls for Liquid glucose. I was sure it will be available in Nilgris. As expected they had it with them. At the billing counter the lady was most interested to know what I plan to make with it. When I said chocolates, she was impressed but had that peculiar look. Maybe she thought I was nuts to try make chocolates at home, when they had such a huge array of chocolates on display. I thought...well..

Homemade Chocolates always reminds me of our many trips to Ooty and Kodaikanal, where these plain chocolates and chocolates with nuts are so famous. I am not sure why, but somehow these homemade chocolates are famous in these hilly places. Does the climate in any way help this process or another reason behind? Or it can purely be a marketing thing all together. I simply know these humble treats are made famous by the tourists.

Coming to the recipe, if you are interested in the details, liquid glucose also called as Corn syrup, is mostly used in making Jams, Jellies, Ice creams, Chocolates. Liquid glucose prevents the cane sugar from crystallization. Plus it prevents spoilage without increasing the sweetness. It also imparts a smoother texture in the product. I was surprised to read that in India, hard candies are often made entirely out of glucose syrup, without adding cane sugar.

In ice-cream, the use of corn syrup has definite advantages. It not only prevents sucrose crystallization but also imparts a smoother texture. Cane sugar can be replaced up to 25%, without materially changing the properties of the ice-cream. This surely gives me lot of new ideas. You can read more about Liquid glucose simply google it or read from Wiki.  Referred other sources from google search.

Plus if you want to know how to make chocolate from scratch, meaning right from making the cocoa powder from the beans, well check out the few sites that explain the entire process. I don't think I am that adventurous. So will stick to the recipe that uses commercially available cocoa powder and make chocolates.

Reading through the recipe, I realized that the procedure didn't actually elaborate the steps involved in making chocolates at home. It really couldn't be this simple right. On hindsight I realized I should have gone with my instinct and followed some steps to avoid lumps.

Since this is my first experience with liquid glucose, with time being short, I really didn't get enough time to experiment to give you more details. Will surely try it again and let you know how to handle the thick gel like substance that is Liquid glucose. It was almost impossible for me to extract the required amount to be added. There must be simpler methods, will check it out.

Step by Step Recipe with pictures

Ingredients Needed:

Condensed Milk - 1 tin
Cocoa powder - 5 tsp
Butter - 50 gms
Liquid Glucose - 5 gms
Sugar - 2 tbsp

How to make Chocolates at home:

Grease a non stick square pan with butter and keep it aside.

In a thick bottom pan, take the condensed milk. Add the cocoa powder, whisk it well to make sure you get a lump less mix.

Put it on the stove, keep stirring constantly to make sure the bottom doesn't get burnt.

Add the sugar, continue stirring. Let it melt and get mixed well.

Measure the butter at room temperature and add slowly and continue mixing. As you will see the butter will be all incorporated into the condensed milk.

Continue till you are done with all the butter and the mix starts leaving the sides.

At this stage add the liquid glucose and mix well. Immediately pour over the greased pan. Pat down the pan, so the mix gets evenly spread. If you use any spoon or knife you will not have that smooth surface. If needed you can use greased knife to evenly spread.

Allow it to cool down before cutting into pieces. You can even refrigerate to aid the cooling.

I didn't add any nuts as my kids don't eat. But you can add slivered almonds, raisins, cashews just before pouring the mix.  Or decorate with nuts.

While I was making it, hubby dear came to check on me and on knowing it, he said I shouldn't be slogging over such dishes which just vanishes. The last time I made it couple of times, both the times he hardly got a piece to taste. And he said it was going to be the same this time too. As he said kids were after me the moment I went home, looks like Athamma hinted on something like that. Since I hadn't taken the final picture she knew she couldn't give it to them, else it will be the case like in Chocolate Ice cream.

I got about 20 big pieces but two rows disappeared the moment I said I made it. After much persuasion boys agreed to keep some for the next day, especially for their dad. Chinnu was all serious and said this has to be there when he returns back from school, else he will not know what he will do (when typically said in telugu, it will sound threatening.) Athamma replied back saying even she will not know what she will. Well it was a funny conversation. I enjoyed knowing how much they love chocolates.

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