SOWMYA'S KITCHEN

This is about the popular bakery product in Bangalore... Benne (Butter) biscuit is the hot favourite in Karnataka available in Ayyangar Bakeries.. I wanted to try this at home for long time.. During Xmas vacation, I gave it a shot..here is the recipe.. Ingradients : 1 cup Maida; 1/4th tsp Baking soda; 1/2 tsp Baking powder; 1/4th tsp Salt; 1/2 cup softened butter; 1/3rd cup white sugar.. Sift Maida, baking powder, soda and salt for few minutes.. Keep it aside.. In another bowl, mix butter and sugar until it becomes creamy and pluffy.. You may use machine beater or hand beater.. Machine beater provides more softness.. Optional - you may add 1 tsp of Vanilla ascence.. Mix the flour to Sugar/butter bowl little by little to make a soft dough..Should not be sticky and hard... Preheat the oven to 350 degree F.. make about 12 to 14 balls of cookie..Do not press too hard.. place them on the baking sheet.. separated by 2"..sprinkle little flour on them..Keep them in the fridge

Couple of years back, one of my friends - Sandhya Kulkarni - prepared a dessert for Diwali function. It was a hit..! everybody loved the dish. Last week, we had a baby-shower for a friend in Warsaw. I thought of modifying the recipe for this event. Here is the Version 2.0 of the dessert: - Mango pulp - 1 can - Condensed milk - 1 Can - Evaporated Milk - 1 Can - 1/2 and 1/2 or Whip cream - Cool Whip - Cut Fruits (Cantelope, Grapes, Mango chunks, Pineapple, Apple and Dry fruits of your choice) Prepare Mango ice-cream/Kulfi and freeze it for few hours. For mango-ice cream take 1 cup of mango pulp,1 cup of condensed milk, 1cup of  evaporated milk and 1 cup of whip cream and mix it in a mixer. Pour the paste in a bowl and put 8 oz box full of cool whip in it  and mix with hand beater so that cool whip texture retains.Freeze this for few hours in freezer.For small quantity, you can use 1 cup of everything as I said above but if you are doing it for large quantity you should take 1