Hello everybody.
I hope you’re doing well.
There is no shame declaring that I am a hardcore sweet lover. I’ve developed this habit of having anything sweet when I am stressed, relives my nerves.
I have always loved cooking. As a housewife, I never felt cooking as a task or a challenge. But when it comes to making desserts I take a seat back. you ask, why? It’s the failed experiences and the experiments. I do have confidence in making traditional or Indian sweets, but whenever there is gelatin included in the dessert I just sign off.
This recipe is very simple to make yet delicious. So without a further delay lets jump into the recipe.
Ingredients. 1 cup=250 ml
- One cup cashews.
- Sponge cake 10 to 12 slices
- Sugar- 1 cup, 3 tbsp, 3 tbsp.
- Butter- 100 gms
- Milk-250 ml
- Vanilla essence- 1tsp+ 1 tsp
- Fresh cream- 350 ml
Step 1:
Blend half a cup of sugar and half a cup of cashews.
Take a pan, add 1 big stick of butter.
Let it melt and then add the cashew sugar powder.
Keep roasting until it turns brown.
Make sure to keep mixing do not burn at the bottom.
Once done remove from the pan and let it cool down.
Step 2.
Whisk a half cup of milk, 3 tbsp. of sugar and 1 tsp. of vanilla essence, until the sugar dissolves.
Step 3.
Whisk fresh cream with 3 tbsp of sugar and 1 tsp of vanilla essence using a hand whisk.
Blend until the cream looks thick.
Do not over mix.
Keep it ready.
Step 4.
Cut the sponge cake in a rectangular shape. Each slice should be less than 2 inches.
Assembling the dessert.
- Take a wide pudding tray and dip the slice of a sponge cake in the milk-sugar mixture(step 2) and arrange it neatly making a layer.
- Once you cover the whole tray with sponge cakes making a layer, add the cream mixture (step 3) spread evenly on the cakes making it a second layer.
- Then generously add the cashew+sugar mixture (step 1). making it a third layer.
- Make another layer of sponge cakes dipped in milk mixture, topped with cream and then cashew sugar mixture.
- You can make more layers of the same.
- Refrigerate for at least 3 hrs.
That’s it!
This is one of the easiest recipes I’ve found.
Source: Internet
I would try and post more recipes here,
In shaa Allah.
That’s it for now guys.
Until we meet again,
Stick around.
We are right now witnessing the blessed month of Ramadan. The month of Ramadan gets immense blessings in our lives. We do oblige fasting in this month and attain utmost rewards from Allah. I personally believe that Ramadan cleanses our souls to worship Allah better.
Loooooooooooooooong time so see huh?
I don’t earn from my blogs yet but the fact that I wasn’t regular and consistent putting content here, kind of ached my heart. Social media is a great influencer. It can give you motivation to touch sky or demotivate enough to lose hope. It is your call how you want to take it.
I’ve always loved reading, whenever I had some time in hand i read an article in a newspaper, in my WhatsApp group or even in a magazine at reception desk. My love for reading took a step ahead in my pregnancy. I was at moms and obviously I wasn’t allowed to do a lot of house chores and I was left with the only option to read articles. i kept a close track on the weekly pregnancy changes in body. Sometimes my gynecologist was very much astonished to see me asking for details that no patient ask.
I saw few people coming up to me and politely saying that I’ve put on weight! ‘Wow as if I dint know that already and thank you for making me feel worse!!’ Did I also mention that this was said just after a month of my baby’s arrival? I don’t understand the concept where in everyone wants a slim and good-looking wife, a baby after 1 or 2 years of marriage and immediately after the pregnancy the wife should look all glammed up. If a baby takes 9 months don’t expect a woman to get to her pre pregnancy weight overnight.
Another major thing I want to disclose here is that LOVE YOUR BODY.
A topic that i wanted to pen down here since a long time but never attempted it for the short of words I had towards it.
The society thinks she is weak, her sole responsibility is to take care of the house or the kids, and she has no rights to give her opinion on any issues.
No one knows what is good for you except your creator alone.
We women are born multitaskers and multitasking gets a promotion when you become a housewife. A women who stays at home after she is married is called a housewife.
The second responsibility the child/children. Taking care of your kid is even more complicated than the house chores. They are very tricky to handle. They can either wake up in a good mood in the morning or a cranky mood that runs throughout the day. The demands that they make for food is unpredictable. When you don’t have dosa batter in the refrigerator that day they decide to have dosas. When the bread expires that’s when they want a sandwich. The oranges that were there in stock and are getting rotten nobody cares to eat it because it looks dirty. Imagine convincing your child in these situations and that’s how a housewife’s life is when it comes to taking care of them. The tantrum they throw when they don’t want a shower or a desired dress after the shower and taking them to bed for afternoon naps is something that every housewife will relate.
The third and the most important factor for a housewife is to take care of her HUSBAND. He can come home with a grumpy face or a happy face. If he comes home in a grumpy face and youre PMSing that day I am sure youll end up having a big fight. If he comes back from work with a happy face then you may go out for dinner that night. A hungry husband is forever angry. I’ve literally gone through this experience of hungry and angry husband. If they don’t like a particular food a housewife will end up not making it even if that particular food is her absolute favorite.
So a housewife is 24*7 on duty where in there will be guests coming over without prior notice, a kid can fall sick, a husband may have stress at work, cooking is necessary for survival, mood swings of women etc.
I was following a lot of bloggers then, who had their own website where they would write something. So when I first decided to write blogs I did open my new page on WordPress and changed my personal Instagram account to a public profile. With a lot of researches online and without any human help! And thus joined the tribe. I remember I had almost 300 followers then and when I changed my profile to a public account my followers list increased to 450. So basically I started with 450 followers. And I actually thought I don’t have to do much and waited for a 1000 followers. It took me a year to complete 2000 followers, like how silly was I!😜
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What I really enjoyed about Instagram then is about the collaboration that I did with few brands and felt really good that the brands trusts my work. And who doesn’t love hampers and gifts right? A did get a slight work pressure from the brands even before the deadlines. And later on whenever there were collaboration I was so worried that I started focusing and stressing more whether I will be able to satisfy the brand with my work. I did quite well with all of the collaboration, Alhamdulillah.
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One of the famous phrase I grew up hearing is log kya kahenge (what will people say). I am sure this is quite common in almost everyone’s life. I used to wonder who these “people” are that everyone wants to please. It took me quite a long time to know and understand the concept of this. It’s like we are living a life only to please them.
Surprisingly, these interrogating questions were asked by few people whom I met for the first time. The first few times I was asked these questions I was ignoring of course. But later on it started haunting me. I was lost in deep thoughts thinking about this.
Being a mom of a toddler I can assure you by now that this is the most difficult phase of all. It’s not only about the 100s of questions they ask each hour but also getting bored in a jiffy. When I think of my childhood days I remember using a term ‘BORED’ is only when we had 2 months of summer vacations and the last few days were kind of boring. And whenever I complained about my boring days to my mom, she would always say start studying for the next year.😉
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BE THANKFUL:)
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