Christmas cheer!

So, with the holidays around the corner, there is a merry tone to our surroundings. It is the season of togetherness, be it family, friends or even subtle acquaintances. Christmas is best celebrated when shared, so, for today's blog, I've collaborated with Sukanya, founder of entreetodessert.weebly.com to bring you guys four amazing holiday recipes, now, on my blog, you'll find one of my two recipes and one of Sukanya's two recipes and when you're done reading this blog, head over to Sukanya's blog for another one of mine and another one of her recipes.
Recipe: 1
Shireen's peppermint hot chocolate.
These peppermint hot chocolate are decadent enough to remind of Christmas with every sip, delicious in being, now don't you worry, Christmas calories don't count!

Time: 15 minutes
Yields: 150 ml
Ingredients:
1. 1 cup milk;
2. 1/2 cup cream;
3. 30 grams of dark chocolate/ milk chocolate
4. 1 tablespoon sugar (if using milk chocolate, omit this step.)
5. 2 crushed peppermint candies.
Procedure:
1. In a boiler, add in milk and cream and heat till steam can be seen. You don't want to boil this mixture, boiling will cause the cream to burn.
2. When heated, remove from flame and add the chocolate and the crushed candies, whisk till well combined.
3. Done and done! Enjoy this amazing drink!
Recipe: 2
Sukanya's shortbread cookies.
Time: 20 minutes
Yields: About a dozen cookies
Christmas is all about cakes, cookies and candies! These buttery short bread cookies are absolutely delicious and perfect for Christmas. It is so easy to make and requires only 3 ingredients. Wrap them up in cute boxes and gift them to your loved ones to make their Christmas merrier. 

INGREDIENTS:
1.150g flour
2.1 stick or 100 g butter, cut into cubes
3.50 g castor sugar
METHOD:
1.Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
2.In a bowl mix the flour, butter and sugar. Slowly shape it into a dough.
3.Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface.
4.Cut the dough into desired shapes.
5.Place the cut out dough on a baking tray and bake for 20 minutes or till they are golden brown, depending upon the thickness of your cookies.
6.Let it cool down completely before biting in!
TIPS: Use cookie cutters shaped like hearts, stars and Christmas trees to add more cuteness to your cookies.
Here's a little bit about my collaboration guest :
Recipe by: SUKANYA SAHA
I’m the founder of Entrée to Dessert (entreetodessert.weebly.com) a recipe blog, aimed at making cooking at home easy and delicious. A graduate from St. Xavier’s College, preparing for CA finals, I’ve always been passionate about food. Food, to me, is all about sharing and through Entrée to Dessert, my team of featured columnists and I share easy, tested, fail-proof and delicious recipes. We started out on 1st June 2015 and now, we have a reader base of 2500+ and the numbers only seem to be increasing.

Chunked up!

Hey guys! How are you all today? I hope you all are fine, I’m not because I have my review tests that start this week, so, I’m a little stressed and that is reason why I am not posting recipes since, I don’t get time to experiment. Therefore, today, yet again is a food review, I’m reviewing Britannia’s Good day Chunkies.

The Brand:

Britannia is a well known brand in India; it has a huge line of biscuits. “Chunkies” has recently been released over here, so, I had to have it.

Packaging:

You don’t get a single chunky; you have to buy a box which has an individual cookie in an individual pack.

Taste and Texture:

And now, the taste and the texture, the taste is heavenly, it isn’t very rich, neither is it very light, it has a perfect texture, like it’s very name, it has a whole lot of chunks, anyone who loves chunks will definitely love this cookie, you can taste a little bit of salt which perfectly balances the flavour. All together, its taste is serendipity.

Pricing:

To be honest, chunkies is not what I would call “pocket friendly”, it retails for Rs. 50 for 100 grams or six pieces, which honestly is a lot, there are similar cookies which retail for half of its price and don’t compromise in taste.

Preference:

If you love chunks go for, even after its money factor, this cookie is worth a try!

That's it for today I guess,

Vola!

Traveling Back In Time.

Ah childhood! those amazing days and those amazing times, I vividly remember being a happy child, I loved being a child. Oh, wait, yeah! food blog. I talked a bit about my childhood and those lovely days, lovely days because it was filled with chocolate and peanut butter, this recipe is all about it, it has my favourite three things: chocolate, peanut butter and sugar-coated chocolate, now, let's get to the good stuff already!

Ingredients:

1 cup all-purpose flour;

1/2 cup coco powder;

1/3 cup butter;

1/4 peanut butter;

3/4 castor sugar;

few m&m/gems/skittles;

1 teaspoon baking powder;

2 eggs.

Procedure

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Fahrenheit.

2. Melt in the butters with sugar, mix all the dry ingredients in a separate bowl.

3. Mix the eggs in the butter and sugar mixture, mix well to avoid lumps.

4. Slowly fold in the dry ingredients to avoid clumps yet again.

5. On a baking tray (if it's not a non-stick tray, use butter), make little balls off the mixture and put it on the tray, top the cookie dough off with the chosen sugar coated confectionery and bake it for 15-20 minutes at 180 degree Fahrenheit. 

Enjoy!