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Easy Christmas Cake

This cake is so simple, it can be in the oven in under 30 minutes. But we haven’t sacrificed taste for speed: our secret is quality ingredients, such as succulent vine fruits and unrefined muscovado sugar, rounded off with a hint of sherry and saffron.

Preparation time : 30 minutes
Cooking time : 3 hours to 4 hours
*Total time :* *3 hours 30 minutes to 4 hours 30 minutes*
Makes: 1 x 20cm cake Serves: 25 to 30 Ingredients

• Freeze the ice cream properly. Then put it in a glass bowl and lightly use a spoon to soften it, or blend it in the blender.

• Add the desired flavour/ingredient. Mix properly just once.

• Quickly transfer the mixture into an aluminium/glass container.

• Place it in the freezer for about 4-5 hours.

• Your dessert is ready to serve.

• Egg is nature’s most perfect package of nutrition.

• It is naturally sealed, absolutely unadulterable.

• Egg protein is of the highest quality. It is used as a standard to measure the quality of any other protein foods.

• Its biological value (96) is the highest compared to any other food.

• Egg contains Vitamin ‘A’ and carotenoids -good for eye sight; Vitamin ‘D’ and Calcium -good for strong teeth and bones: Vitamin ‘E’ - good for glowing skin: and a wide range of Vitamins and minerals necessary for good health.

 following tips  help you to make quick and tasty drinks for tipplers

• To save time and effort, prepare common ingredients like sugar
  syrup in bulk just before summer begins. Take Vi cup of water for Va
  cup of sugar and boil for about fifteen minutes.

• If sugar is required in a drink, make sure it is of fine texture that will dissolve easily, else use powdered sugar.

• •   If lemons are required, make sure they are ripe; unripe lemons impart a bitter flavour to the drink.

• Instead of ice cubes use crushed ice, which will chill the drink much faster.

• Make ice cubes using water in which some fresh lemon juice has been
  added; this will add flavour to the drink instead of diluting it as it
  melts.

• Fast to cook.

• Easy to eat a one dish meal.

• Nutritious and fortified, supplying at least 25 percent of daily requirements.

• Heavy on complex carbohydrates and with a good portion of fibre so as to be filling.

• Low in fats but with enough healthy fats (can be nuts) to prime the brain.

• Including good-quality protein to stave off hunger pangs and stoke physical activity.

• Include dairy products so as to supply calcium for bone-building.

• A good source of iron and vitamins C, A and all the B-complex group.

To reuse the leftover dal, add a little gram flour to the dal and make dough for parathas, this way dal will be reused nutritionally.

To prevent your pumpkin or custard pie from getting a soggy crust,
brush the unbaked crust with egg white and then bake for just a few minutes to dry the egg white and seal the crust.
Add your filling and bake as usual.