Chocolate Fruit Basket
Straightforward Kerala cooking — good ingredients treated well, spiced with confidence, and served without pretence. The kind of food that tastes like someone's kitchen, not a restaurant.
Ingredientsfor 9 servings
- 75 g All purpose flour Maida
- White butter(home made) - 75 gm, home
- 30 g Icing sugar
- 2 tsp Cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence — optional
- 200 g Fresh cream
- 40 g Icing sugar
- 1 Tea Mixed fruit pieces
- Strawberries for decoration
Preparation
Step 1
Sieve maida and cocoa together.
Step 2
Beat the butter and icing sugar well.
Step 3
Add vanilla essence and beat again (optional).
Step 4
Add the sieved mixture to it and Stir everything together thoroughly.
Step 5
Fit a star nozzle to a piping bag, fill with the mixture and pipe rounds in individual basket moulds (approx. 8 moulds).
Step 6
Bake in oven at moderate temperature of 180ªC/350ªF for about 25 minutes.
Step 7
Cool and un-mould the baskets.
Step 8
Beat cream and sugar meant for icing.
Step 9
Fill the baskets with fruit pieces and pipe the sweetened cream on top.
Step 10
Decorate it with strawberries.
Tip
Good shallots are the backbone of Kerala cooking. They should be small, pink-purple, and strong-smelling. Large onions can substitute, but the flavour will be different.
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