Baked Apple Pie roll-ups are a beautiful and easy way of using some beautiful sweet apples as dessert. These are oven baked and take just a few minutes to get ready. Warm, crispy and sweet cinnamon apple rolls are a family favorite and an ultimate delight. They go great with a scoop of ice cream or caramel and you got yourself a perfect weeknight treat.
The best part about these roll-ups is that they are baked, not fried. This makes them light and just a couple of minutes to execute. The filling that I have used is a simple apple pie filling with sweet apples, brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter. You can get more creative and add more lovely ingredients.
But if you are in a hurry or are facing a time crunch, this is the simplest way to go.
Baking is truly an art and this most-rich chocolate chip cake is just the perfect dessert to have around at this time of the year. If you are an amateur baker trying to get that perfect chocolate cake out of your oven, you have come to the right place. This is one of the simplest chocolate cake recipes out there.
I have been a cook all my life, but my interest in baking has only developed recently. For some reason, I always thought I’ll never be good at baking. Perhaps that was because I grew up in a time when cakes and pastries were only meant for birthdays. My mother has been baking tea cakes for as long as I can remember. I love her nutty flavored cakes, filled with dry fruits and spongy textures. They smell like a dream, filling the whole house with a familiar aroma. I also remember the huge oven we had in the ’90s. All the neighborhood aunties used to borrow it during birthdays to bake cakes for their children.
It’s not like I have never tried my hands at baking. Just like cooking, I tried baking a couple of times even as a kid, but I have never really been successful in any endeavor. Until I laid my hands upon a vegetarian cookbook in the early 2000s. My mother had got this book as a gift from work and it opened up a whole lot of possibilities for me. I do not remember the name of this book, and I haven’t ever been able to find it at home (considering we have moved so much). But this is one book that taught me so much about cooking. It’s really unfortunate that my memory doesn’t bring back the name of it.
This book had the most amazing chocolate cake recipe, with a delicious and gooey chocolate glaze. I started following the recipe step by step, failed multiple times. I still remember how I told my friend in school that salt is also an ingredient in cake. Her eyes expressed disbelief. I finally cracked it in my 9th standard. I still remember my family’s reaction to it. They were stunned! My brother’s friend had a bite and said “Stop kidding me. I’m not a fool. You didn’t bake this!”
This chocolate tea cake is that very same recipe but kept simple and humble. There are no layers or glaze (maybe I will do it later someday). It is simple to make, provided the techniques to be followed are adhered to.
Here’s the recipe:
Preparation time – 20 minutes
Cook time – 30-40 minutes
Serves – 4 people
[ingredients title=”Ingredients”]
3 eggs
200 g flour
100 g melted butter
1 tsp vanilla essence
200 g powdered brown sugar
80 g unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
150 g dark chocolate chips
100 ml of warm milk [/ingredients]
[directions title=”Directions”]
Mixing the liquid ingredients:
In a glass bowl, whisk three eggs until smooth.
Pour in the melted butter and vanilla essence into the whisked eggs. Mix till everything comes together smoothly.
Mixing the dry ingredients:
In a glass bowl, add the flour, brown sugar, cocoa powder, and baking powder.
Mix everything together.
Time to add the liquid to the dry mixture.
Gently pour the whisked egg mixture over the flour mixture. Take your time and mix this well with a spatula till a thick batter is formed.
Add the choco chips to this batter and mix well without damaging the chips.
Once the batter is done, add the milk. Take your time to mix the two. The milk needs to be completely absorbed by the chocolate chip cake batter.
Time to bake:
Preheat the oven to 180-degree Celsius.
Grease your baking tray with butter or refined oil with a pastry brush.
Put the batter into the baking tray. Bake the cake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes. Let the cake cool completely before serving. [/directions]
Desserts can be a great way to celebrate. Hence, we came up with this classic apple crumble recipe which is really simple and you can prepare it in minutes.
The effort required is way less than the happiness that you will get when you share it with your loved ones.
Make one for yourself this winters and tell us how it went for you. Here’s the recipe:
INGREDIENTS
4 red apples, chopped
1/2 cup brown sugar
80 gms butter
1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
1 cup flour
1 cup chopped almonds
PROCEDURE
For the apples:
Heat butter in a pan and add the apples. Cook this for a minute.
Now add 3 tablespoons of brown sugar and the cinnamon powder to this.
Cover pan with a lid and let the apples cook in the caramel for three to four minutes.
Once done, put the apples on a baking dish and let it cool.
For the crumble:
In a glass bowl, mix flour, 40 gms butter and 1/4 cup sugar.
Mix this with your hands till you form crumbs.
Final step:
Put this crumb mixture on top of the apples in the baking dish.
Top it off with one cup of chopped almonds.
Bake this at 180 degrees for 30 minutes.
It’s done! Trust me, your friends and family are going to finish this apple crumble before you know it.
