Hannah Montana Birthday Cake

Birthday Parties are fun! Birthday is a special occasion, and kids love to have a blast on their special day. For my daughter’s 9th birthday, she wanted to have a Hannah Montana cake. Hannah Montana cakes’ popularity is on the rise. Hannah Montana is very popular amongst pre-teen girls. My daughter is a great fan of Hannah Montana, so she wanted to surprise her friends with a Hannah Montana cake. She also wanted to have a homemade cake. On my culinary journey, this was a challenge for me.

I decided to be very creative and prepare a cake with the best things I could. I spent hours in stores, looking for creative colourful chocolates, and also paid a great amount of attention to the various available candy shapes. It’s a super easy cake, though it looks complicated. When the final thing came out, it was truly an amazing looking cake, and all the friends of my daughter envied her and praised the preparation.
I’ve used ready made frosting and ice-cream cones for the decoration. Guitar shaped chocolate has also been used, as Hannah Montana is a great singer.


INGREDIENTS:


Sponge Cake – 1 rectangle
White Butter – 250 gms
Icing Sugar – 250 gms
Vanilla essence – 4-5 drops
Ready made frosting – ½ tin – chocolate flavour
Ready made frosting – ½ tin vanilla flavour
Little heart biscuits – 1 packet
Ice cream cones – 2
Lollipops – various shapes - 3 to 4
Sprinklers coloured – as required
Jelly cubes – 1 packet.
Tinned Cherries – 1 cup
Cocoa Powder – 2 tblspn
Birthday Candles – As required

METHOD

Prepare icing by combining icing sugar, white butter, cocoa powder and vanilla essence.

Keep in the fridge for an hour.
Cut the sponge cake into two halves.

Soak each part with the cherry syrup.

Place pitted cherries on the first part of the cake.

Spread a layer of the prepared icing on each cake half.

Cover the first half of the cake with the second half, making layers.

Now cover the entire cake with the icing prepared above.
Level the icing with a broad knife dipped in cold water.
Make a border with the ready made frosting using icing gun.
Decorate the border of the cake with the little heart biscuits.

Decorate the candies, jelly cubes and ice cream cones.

Make ice cream on the ice cream cones with the prepared icing.
Sprinkle the sprinkler on the empty space.
Place the candles on the cake.
Keep in fridge till the party time.

Note: I have used ready-made sponge cake in this recipe for the Hannah Montana cake. But you can also use plain homemade sponge cake instead.

kacche kele ke kebab

Raw Banana is used in Bihari homes mainly for the fasts or for the wedding. Today I present raw banana for a snack item. You can serve these with any mocktail or hot tea. I am sure you would love to have this hot snacks  in the chilly winters.

INGREDIENTS

Raw Banana - 3

roasted gram flour - 1 1/2 tblspn

Boiled Potato - 1 1/2

Chopped Ginger - 1 tblspn

Chopped Green Chillies - 1 tblspn

Crushed Cashewnuts - 1/2 tblspn

Crushed black pepper - 1/2 tspn

Green Coriander chopped - 2 - 3 tblspn

whole cumin roasted - 1/2 tspn

Roasted cumin powder - 1 tspn

Salt - to taste

Oil- for deep frying

For the filling

Anjeer - 10-12 chopped

Chopped Almonds - 1/2 tspn

For the garnish-

Red Bell Pepper - 1/2

Yellow bell pepper - 1/2
Green Chillies - 2 slit
Tooth picks - as required

METHOD-

1. Using very little water boil the potaotes and raw bananas.
2. When cool mash it with your hand.
3. Add roasted gram flour.
4. Add chopped ginger and chopped green chillies.
5. Add crushed cashews and crushed black pepper.
6. Add cuming powder and whole cumin.
7. Add chopped coriander leaves.
8. Add salt to taste.
9. Mix well to form a sort of dough.
10. Prepare filling by mixing chopped anjeer and chopped almonds.
11. Form a ball from the prepared dough.
12. Fill 1 tspn of the filling in the centre of the kebab.
13. Heat oil.
14. Deep fry these kebabs till golden.
15. Drain on an absorbent paper.
16. Serve hot garnished with bell peppers - as shown in the picture.
17. Serve with green chutney.

NOTE - Do not use food processor or blender to mash the banana and poatato as it would become too runny.