Ice Cream Bread Recipe – How To Make Cake With Ice Cream

Ice cream bread/ Ice cream cake is an easy 2 ingredient bread baked using all purpose flour / cake flour and melted ice cream. Recently I prepared homemade Vanilla ice cream and Butterscotch icecream using Amul fresh cream and condensed milk. I used the leftover ice cream for this recipe. After referring so many recipes, I found full fat ice cream works the best for this ice cream bread recipe. But I tried with ice cream prepared using low fat Amul fresh cream. Still my bread came out very well and soft. 

Basically this ice cream bread tastes bland with mild sweetness. So I modified the recipe and added some powdered sugar, milk. It came out very well, soft and spongy. Raksha loved it very much. You too give a try in this summer vacation for your kids. They will love it for sure. Vanilla ice cream is preffered but you can try with other flavors as well. I used vanilla ice cream and butterscotch ice cream in equal quantity. So the color of bread varies as per the ice cream you use. Ok, lets see how to make easy, yummy, homemade ice cream bread recipe at home using leftover ice cream.

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Ice Cream Bread Recipe Using 2 ingredients

Learn how to make easy ice cream bread recipe using leftover ice cream and all purpose flour.

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Cake recipes

Serves: 10 slices

Prep time: 5 Minutes

Cook time: 25 Minutes

Total time: 30 Minutes

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

1 cup = 250ml Ice cream – 1 cup ( I used a combination of Vanilla and butterscotch) Maida / All purpose flour – 3/4 cup Baking powder – 1 tsp Powdered sugar – 1 to 2 tbsp ( Use 1 tbsp, add more if needed) Salt – 1/8 tsp Flavorless Cooking oil or melted butter  – 2 tbsp ( For moistness, I used oil)

HOW TO MAKE ICE CREAM BREAD

1. Melt the ice cream and take in a bowl.
2. Sieve all purpose flour, baking powder, salt, powdered sugar and add to ice cream.
3. Add cooking oil and mix well to make batter.
4. Transfer to a greased loaf pan. Preheat convection oven at 180c.
5. Bake for 25 minutes till tooth pick comes out clean.
6. Cool for 15 minutes and remove the bread. Make slices and enjoy.

METHOD - STEP BY STEP PICTURES

• In a wide bowl, take melted ice cream. Place a sieve over the bowl. Add all purpose flour, powdered sugar, salt, baking powder. Sieve and add to ice cream.
  
• Add cooking oil and mix everything well to make bread batter. Batter should be thick but pourable as shown in the picture below.
  
• Grease a loaf pan with cooking oil and dust all purpose flour all over the pan. Transfer the bread batter to the pan.
  
• Preheat convection oven at 180c. Bake the bread for 25 minutes. Remove the bread, insert a toothpick and check if it comes out clean. If so, cake is done.
  
  
• Cool the bread for 20 minutes. Run a knife in the corners of pan. Invert the pan over a plate and remove the bread. It comes off easily. Make slices and serve immediately. It kept it for 2 days.
  
• Enjoy !

Note

Vanilla ice cream is preferred for this ice cream bread. You get white colored bread slices. As I used vanilla and butterscotch in equal proportions, my slices came out golden in color. You can skip cooking oil if you use full fat ice cream.

Try this easy ice cream bread at home and enjoy your teatime !

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Chettinad Kalkandu Vadai Recipe - Sweet Medhu Vada / Sweet ulundhu vadai With Video

Kalkandu Vadai (Sugar candy vada) is a Chettinad Special Sweet Medhu Vada Recipe/ sweet ulundhu vadai made especially for Diwali and Thirukarthigai Deepam festivals. Recently we had a 2 days trip to Karaikudi, Chettinad just to explore its food and other specialties. We relished an elaborate, traditional Chettinad lunch at “The Bangala” and had a pleasant stay at “Chidambara Vilas” heritage hotel. In this trip, I got a chance to taste most of the Chettinad special delicacies like Kandarappam, Vellai paniyaram with kara chutney, Thalicha idiyappam, Kosumalli, Kondakadalai Mandi, Getti kuzhambu, Paruppu urundai kulambu, More kulambu, Milagu kulambu, Payasam, some poriyal , pachadi and kootu varieties. 

We bought all the Chettinad specialty snacks from Soundaram Aachi stores. I also bought a kg of white raw rice / Maavu arisi and murukku press near Koppudai amman temple street for making Chettinad thenkuzhal by enquiring the staffs in Soundaram aachi kadai. I visited the antique stores to buy some props for blog but I din’t buy anything as I found them too costly and not worthy for its price. Finally I bought 2 Chettinad Cotton sarees as well. Totally it was a memorable one to cherish for years. Soon I will try to make a separate post about our trip in detail with all the pictures. 

After this trip, I got tempted to try some Chettinad recipes in my kitchen and share with my readers. So I bought “100 Chettinad recipes cookbook “ and started trying them one by one. Last week Sendhil’s friends visited us. Luckily I came to know that they are from Chettinad . I became very happy and passed this book to her to know the authenticity of the recipes given in the book. Thanks a lot Mrs. Inba Venkatesh. She explained each and every recipe along with few corrections. She told me to try this Kalkandu vada as its one of the most special snacks recipe of Chettinad. So I tried this recipe referring the cookbook and few Youtube videos. Even though its my first attempt, it came out really well. I am very happy with the result. It tasted crispy outside and very soft inside. Its so easy to make too. Lets see how to make Chettinad special Kalkandu vadai with step by step pictures.

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Kalkandu Vadai Recipe - Sweet Medhu Vada

Kalkandu vadai - Sweet medhu vada made with urad dal and sugar candy.

Cuisine: South Indian

Category: Sweet

Serves: 6

Prep time: 60 Minutes

Cook time: 10 Minutes

Total time: 70 Minutes

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

1 cup = 250ml White round Urad dal - 1/2 cup Raw rice - 1 tbsp Sugar candy / Kalkandu - 1/3 cup ( I used diamond kalkandu) Salt - A pinch Cooking oil - to deep fry vada

HOW TO MAKE SWEET ULUNDHU VADAI - METHOD

1. Wash and soak urad dal and rice in a bowl adding water for one hour.
2. In a mixie jar, grind sugar candy to smooth powder. 
3. To this powder, add the soaked dal +rice by draining the water completely.
4. Grind to a smooth paste without adding water.
5. Add salt to the batter, mix well and keep aside.
6. Heat oil and make vada. Deep fry both sides till golden.
7. Remove and enjoy hot !

METHOD - STEP BY STEP PICTURES

Wash and soak urad dal and raw rice in a bowl adding enough water. Soak for one hour.  In a big mixie jar, powder the sugar candy/ kakandu smoothly. Alternatively you can use sugar instead of sugar candy. Take the soaked dal+rice and drain the water completely. Add the soaked dal+ rice to mixie jar. Grind to a smooth paste without adding water. Powdered kalkandu helps to grind the dal smooth without water.  So do not add water, just wipe the sides of mixie jar and grind continously to make a smooth batter.  Transfer the batter to a bowl, add salt just before making vada. Mix well with a spoon to prevent batter becoming watery.Keep aside. Add 1/2 cup of water to the mixie jar and grind it to wash the jar. Transfer to another bowl and use this water for dipping your hands while shaping the vada. If you fry the vada later, you can refrigerate the batter till use.  Heat oil in a kadai and when it gets heated , drop a pinch of batter to check the heat of oil. If the batter rises to the top immediately, oil temperature is correct. Now lower the flame to medium and drop the vada.  Dip your fingers in water and take a small portion of batter from one corner of the bowl. Make a ball, flatten it slightly and make a hole in the center. Turn your hand upside down. Drop the vada in oil by slightly tilting your fingers. Make 2 to 3 vada per batch. Cook in medium flame by flipping it whenever needed. Cook till golden brown on both the sides.  Do not cook these vada in high flame because vada turns black quickly because of sugar candy.So cook patiently in low to medium flame. .Remove the vada in a tisue paper and serve hot. You can refrigerate the remaining batter for 2 days and make vada at your will. Enjoy ! This vada stays good for 2 to 3 days.

Note

If you don't have sugar candy, you can use sugar. Never use water for grinding the batter. Cook in low to medium flame patiently. If the vada absorbs more oil, add 1 to 2 tsp of rice flour to the batter. Do not add salt while grinding the batter. It makes the batter watery.

Try this easy, yummy, sweet urad dal vada / Kalkandu and enjoy !

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Kala Jamun With Instant Gulab Jamun Mix - Kala Jamun Using Readymix

Kala jamun (Black gulab jamun) recipe was in my try list for years. To make it simple, I tried making Kala jamun in an easy way using store bought, readymade, instant gulab jamun mix. I have tried it twice so far using Aachi gulab jamun mix and MTR gulab jamun ready mix. Both worked well. When I read the difference between Kala jamun and Gulab jamun in Wikipedia, I found sugar and khoya (milk solid) is used to make the traditional Kala jamun dough. 

So I too used sugar and milk to the instant  readymix to make the jamun dough. Sugar added in the dough slowly caramelizes while deep frying and helps to give dark color to the kala jamoon. Milk helps to make soft gulab jamun. Some recipes called for deep frying the gulab jamun twice to bring the black color. But I felt deep frying in low flame patiently for long time helps to get a nice black color to kala jamun. Please go through my post to read more tips and tricks to make a perfect kala jamun using instant gulab jamun mix in detail.  Try it. You will love its results for sure. Friends, lets see how to make Kala jamun using jamun mix with step by step pictures.

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KALA JAMUN USING INSTANT GULAB JAMUN MIX

Learn how to make Kala jamun using instant gulab jamun mix

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Dessert Recipes

Serves: 8 

Prep time: 5 Minutes

Cook time: 20 Minutes

Total time: 25 Minutes

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

1 cup = 240ml Gulab Jamun mix - 1 cup  Boiled milk at room temperature - As needed Sugar – 1.5 tsp Cooking oil or ghee - to deep fry For Sugar syrup Sugar – 1 cup Water – 1 cup Rose water – 1/2 tsp Saffron threads - Few To stuff kala jamun Gulab jamun dough - a small ball Chopped nuts - 2 tbsp (Cashews and Almond) Saffron threads – Few Food color - a pinch Sugar – 1/2 tsp Warm milk – 2 tsp HOW TO MAKE KALA JAMUN USING INSTANT JAMUN MIX Take the gulab jamun mix in a bowl. Add sugar and mix well. Add milk gradually and make a slightly sticky dough. Cover and Rest for 5 minutes. To make sugar syrup, take sugar and water.Mix well and boil for 5 to 7 minutes till it becomes slightly sticky. Take a small portion of gulab jamun dough and mix saffron milk, food color, sugar & nuts. Make small balls out of it for stuffing the jamun. Now roll smooth, crack free balls in the remaining dough using ghee greased hands. Stuff the nuts ball inside the jamun & roll it. Arrange the balls in a plate. Heat oil and fry the jamun in low flame till black in color. Soak in sugar syrup for one hour. Jamun increase in size and becomes soft. Serve with ice cream !

METHOD - STEP BY STEP PICTURES

In a wide bowl, take the measured gulab jamun mix. Add sugar and mix well. Add milk gradually and make a slightly sticky dough. Cover the jamun dough for 10 minutes. In the mean time, you can make sugar syrup. Heat sugar + water in a bowl and boil the syrup for 5 to 7 minutes in medium flame till the syrup becomes sticky. Add saffron thread and cardamom powder/rose water. Mix well. Switch off the flame and set aside. Take the gulab jamun dough and remove a small ball for the stuffing. To this ball, add chopped nuts, saffron thread soaked in 1 tsp milk, a pinch of food color and 1/2 tsp of sugar. Mix well to make a soft dough. Roll the jamun into equal balls. If it cracks more while rolling, add little milk to dough. Mix well and make balls again. Make equal number of jamun balls and nuts ball. Make sure the size of nuts stuffed ball is lesser than gulab jamun ball. Grease your hands with little ghee. Take one gulab jamun ball and press it to make a small circle. Keep the nuts stuffed ball in the middle and roll it nicely to make a crack free kala jamun ball. You can make round shapes or bullet shaped elongated ones as shown in the picture. Heat oil in a kadai and drop a pinch of dough. If it rises to the top slowly, oil temperature is right. Now keep the flame medium and stir the oil  in the corner of kadai with a wooden ladle. Drop 3 to 4 gulab jamun in each batch. Keep stirring the oil in the corners without touching the gulab jamun. It helps for even coloring of jamun. Keep the flame low and stir it. Cook till jamuns become golden brown. Keep the flame low and keep cooking till it becomes black in color. Make sure you don’t burn the jamuns. You can identify it with the smell if it burns. So always keep the flame low and cook patiently. As we have added sugar to the dough, it helps to change the color of jamun quickly. Remove the jamun using a slotted ladle and drain in a tissue paper. If the sugar syrup becomes cold, heat for a minute and make it warm. Add the cooked kala jamun to the sugar syrup and mix well. Cover and soak it for 30 minutes to one hour OR till the jamun increase in size after soaking. Serve warm or cold as you like with or without ice cream. Enjoy !

NOTE

Addition of sugar helps the jamun to change dark black in color. So do not skip it. Remember to cook the jamun in low flame patiently. If you cook in high flame, jamun may burn. Alternatively you can also fry the jamun twice to get black color.

Try this easy, yummy Kala Jamun using Instant gulab jamun mix. Enjoy !!

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Baby Corn Bajji Recipe - Baby Corn Fingers Recipe

This is our South Indian style bajji recipe with baby corn. Baby corn bajji in Tamil also known as baby corn fingers was in my try list for years. Long back I had posted baby corn golden fritters / baby corn 65 which is a super hit recipe in my blog. After that I din’t post any baby corn snack recipe for long time. 

As summer vacation is started here, Raksha told me to make some bajji or bonda for her evening snacks. So I wanted to post this baby corn bajji and made it. I used besan flour and rice flour in the ratio of 2:1 and made bajji batter in thick flowing consistency.  It came out very well with crispy exterior and soft interior. We loved it very much. Friends, do try this easy, yummy, crispy baby corn bajji for your kids during this vacation and share your feedback with me.

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Baby corn bajji recipe / Baby corn golden fingers

Baby corn bajji recipe / Baby corn golden fingers for kids snacks

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Snacks recipes

Serves: 10 nos

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 10 Minutes

Total time: 20 Minutes

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

1 cup = 250ml Besan flour - 1/2 cup Rice flour - 1/4 cup Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp to 1 tsp Garam masala powder – 1/4 tsp (optional, I used it) Hing / Asafetida - 1/4 tsp Salt - as needed Baking soda / cooking soda – 1/4 tsp Red Food color – a pinch (Optional) Water – As needed( I used around 3/4 cup) Cooking oil - to deep fry

HOW TO MAKE BABY CORN BAJJI

1. Peel the baby corn and discard the skin. Pressure cook the whole baby corn in high flame for one whistle OR boil in water till it becomes soft.
2. In a wide bowl, mix all the ingredients except cooking oil to make bajji batter.
3. Dip the cooked baby corn in the batter.
4. Deep fry in oil on both the sides. Remove when it turns golden in color.
5. Serve with coconut chutney or tomato ketchup.

METHOD - STEP BY STEP PICTURES

Peel the skin of baby corn and wash it. In a cooker base, add 2 cups of water. In a small bowl, keep the peeled baby corn and add very little water to it. Let it pressure cook in high flame for one whistle or cook till it becomes soft but firm. Remove the bowl from the cooker. Drain the excess water if any. Keep it aside.  Some people use raw baby corn to make bajji. So pressure cooking is an optional step. But I love to have soft baby corn. So I cooked it. In a wide bowl, mix besan flour, rice flour, red chilli powder, garam masala powder, hing, salt, baking soda and mix well. Add water and make thick bajji batter in flowing consistency. Set aside for few minutes till oil gets heated. Heat cooking oil in a kadai. Drop a pinch of bajji batter. If it sizzles and rises to the top immediately, heat of the oil is just right. Take one cooked baby corn. Dip it inside the batter, coat it well and take it out by holding the tail part. Drop in the hot oil. Repeat the same and put 2 to 3 bajji in one batch. Flip and Cook both the sides till it turns golden. Remove the bajji in a tissue paper. Enjoy with coconut chutney or tomato ketchup !

Note

If you want to use less rice flour, use besan and rice flour in the ratio of 3:1 instead of 2:1. You can add a pinch of food color to get a bright colored bajji like in teashops. Adding baking soda helps to make puffy and soft bajji.

Enjoy this easy, yummy baby corn bajji with tomato ketchup !

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Apple Chikoo Milkshake Recipe - Queen Palace Milkshake

 Recently I saw this Apple chikoo milkshake/ Apple Sapodilla milkshake recipe in the milkshake menu of Salem Lakshmi hotel. When I saw it titled as Queen palace milkshake, I got tempted to try at home. The combination of apple, chiku/ sapodilla / sapota , ice cream, milk, vanilla and honey sounds new, healthy and interesting as well. I know many kids would refuse to eat whole fruits. For those fussy kids, fruits milkshake is the best option. As we add ice cream to it, it gives a thick, creamy taste with a nice flavor. Raksha never touches sapota fruit even though she had read its health benefits like its good for eyes, bones, develops immunity etc. But today she had a small glass of this milkshake without any complaints. We too liked it very much. Its so easy to make. Just combine all the ingredients and blend it. Tasty apple chikoo milkshake would be ready in minutes. Friends, do try this Queen palace milkshake recipe and let me know your feedback. Ok, lets see how to make it with step by step pictures.

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Apple Chikoo Milkshake Recipe

Apple chikoo milkshake recipe with ice cream and honey

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Milkshake recipes

Serves: Serves 2

Prep time: 5 Minutes

Cook time: 5 Minutes

Total time: 10 Minutes

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

1 cup - 250ml Sapota / Sapodilla Fruit - 2 nos Apple - 1 no Boiled, Chilled Milk - 1 cup Sugar or honey - 1 tbsp ( I used honey) Vanilla essence - 1/4 tsp Vanilla ice cream - 2 scoops

METHOD

1. Wash and peel the fruits. Cut and remove the seeds. 
2. Blend the chopped fruits with other ingredients till smooth.
3. Transfer to a glass, garnish with nuts if you like and serve immediately.

METHOD - STEP BY STEP PICTURES

Wash and peel the skin of apple and sapodilla/ sapota using a peeler. Chop into big cubes and remove the seeds. In a big mixie jar, take the chopped fruits, honey, vanilla essence, ice cream and chilled milk. Grind till smooth. Pour the milkshake to a tall glass. Garnish with chopped nuts if you like. (I sprinkled my homemade caramel which I made for butterscotch ice cream). Serve immediately. Enjoy ! Try this easy, healthy, yummy milkshake recipe and enjoy !

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Mango Pachadi With Sugar – Manga Pachadi Recipe

Mango pachadi / Manga pachadi is a must to do recipe for Tamil new year neivedyam. But we make raw mango pachadi with jaggery, coconut and dried Neem flowers. But recently one of my friends suggested me to try mango pachadi with sugar instead of jaggery. Its a very easy and quick version when compared with my traditional recipe.

This morning I prepared mango pachadi with sugar just for a change. It tasted yummy like mango jam. Myself and Raksha loved it a lot. Of course, its taste and flavor cannot be compared with Mango pachadi adding jaggery. Still I liked the ease of this recipe. Friends, do try this easy mango pachadi with sugar for a change and let me know how you liked it. Lets see how to make manga pachadi with step by step pictures.

Wish you all a very happy Tamil New Year !

Mango pachadi with sugar

Easy raw mango pachadi with sugar

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Sweet

Serves: 4

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 10 Minutes

Total time: 20 Minutes

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

1 cup - 250ml Sliced raw mango - 1 cup ( 1 medium sized mango) Sugar - 1/4 cup to 1/3 cup (Adjust) Salt - a pinch Water - 1/3 cup to pressure cook mango To Temper Coconut oil - 2 tsp Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp Red chilli - 1 no ( pinched into two) Curry leaves - few Dried neem flowers - 1/2 tsp (crushed)

HOW TO MAKE MANGO PACHADI WITH SUGAR

1. Wash and peel the skin of raw mango. Slice into big pieces.
2. In a pressure cooker base, take the mango pieces, add water and a pinch of salt.
3. Cook in high flame for 2 whistles. Switch off the flame.
4. Add sugar to the cooked mango and boil for a minute.
5. Switch off the flame after sugar dissolves. Temper with mustard, red chilli and curry leaves and dried neem flowers.
6. Add to pachadi and mix well. Serve with rice !

METHOD - STEP BY STEP PICTURES

Wash and peel the skin of raw mango. Slice into big pieces. In a pressure cooked base, take the mango pieces, add 1/3 cup of water and a pinch of salt. If you don't want to cook the mango in the cooker base directly, you can keep them in a separate bowl by adding 2 cups of water in the cooker base. Mango gets steamed and cooked well. Pressure cook in high flame for one whistle. Open the lid after steam is released. Mango gets cooked but not so mushy. You can find few pieces here and there. Add sugar to the cooked mango pieces. Mix and boil in low flame till sugar melts completely. If the pachadi is too thick, you can add little water. Temper mustard seeds, pinched red chilli, curry leaves and add to pachadi. For Tamil New Year, you can add dried Neem flowers while tempering. Mix well and switch off the flame. Transfer to a serving bowl immediately. Do not store in the cooker. Mango may react with the metal. So transfer to a bowl and serve with rice. This pachadi thickens after it cools down. So you can add some water if needed while serving to adjust the consistency. Enjoy !

Try this easy, yummy Mango pachadi with sugar and enjoy !

 

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