Mouth-watering Sweet Dishes 1.Kesari Rajbhog:
Ingredients:
250g Cottage cheese(from cow's milk), 1 tsp refined flour(maida), 1 tsp semolina(rawa), 12-15 pistachio nuts, 6-8 almonds, 3 tbsp milk solids(khoya-grated), 2 tbsp rose syrup, 1/2 tsp green cardamom powder, 4-5 cups sugar, 3-4 strands saffron. Method:
Take fresh cottage cheese,knead it well till smooth.Add refined flour and semolina and knead it gently.Divide into 12-14 equal portions.Soak pistachio nuts and almonds in 1 cup hot water for 5 minutes.Drain,peel and chop them roughly.Combine grated milk solids with green cardamom powder and rose syrup.Knead it into a dough.Mix in the roughly chopped pistachio nuts, almonds and divide into 12-14 equal portions.Stuff a portion of khoya into each portion of cottage cheese and form them into marble-sized balls. Combine sugar with 1/2 litre water.Bring it to a boil and make thin sugar syrup.Remove scum, if any and pass it through a muslin cloth.Bring sugar syrup to a boil in a wide-mouthed pan and add saffron.Gently slide in stuffed cottage cheese balls and cook for 4-5 minutes on high heat.Sprinkle about a quarter cup hot water and continue to cook on high heat for another 5 minutes or till they are almost double in size.Remove and keep in sufficient quantity of sugar syrup.Refrigerate and serve chilled. ********************************************* 2.Butter Cookies:
Ingredients:
250g flour,160g sugar, a few drops vanilla essence, a few drops red colour, 200g butter. Method:
Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.Add vanilla essence and red colour.Mix well.Gently fold in the flour.Put the mixture into a piping bag with a large star nozzle.Pipe out stars on a greased baking tray and bake in a moderately hot oven at 150 degree C for 20 minutes or till done.Store in an airtight container.You can top each star with a cherry by pressing it in gently before baking.Makes about 30 cookies. ********************************************* 3.Walnut Fudge:
Ingredients:
1 tin condensed milk, 1 cup(240ml) milk, 3 tbsp cocoa powder, 12 walnuts(halved), 12 small cookie moulds, 1 tbsp butter(melted). Method:
Mix condensed milk, butter, milk and cocoa powder well.Pour the mixture into well greased moulds.Press the walnut halves into the cookie mixture and bake in a moderately hot oven at 200 degree C for 15 minutes or till done.When cool, unmould the cookies.Store in an airtight container. ********************************************* Next | 
