Perfect cookies at last!

Chellu nailed this one right through this time! She attempted her regular cookies and got it PERFECT..ofcourse with me no where in sight. She also made different colored icing and spread it over the cookies. Dola was visiting with her kids and sister and Chellu's hands were itching to cook. I had asked her to wait till they left so that she could spend time with the kids. 

 As soon as they left she started to work and spent her entire evening and night making the cookies..That afternoon she had also attempted chapaatis and had made quite a few , well rounded chapaatis.

                                                      Icing making

 
 As you can guess the kitchen was covered with wheat flour from morning to night and I had  a BIG  chore of cleaning up that night.

Cooking with Kabir- strawberry jam ice and chocolate ice

Chellu's latest obsession has been that of cooking with her friends. She does that whenever some HSer kid visits or sometimes will round up a entire gang of kids from the playground and teach them something to cook.

They made strawberry jam ice and chocolate ice.

Strawberry jam ice: Crushed the strawberries and cooked it with powdered sugar till thick and then fill it in ice cubes.

Chocolate ice: Make cocoa paste and fill it in ice cubes.. The kids gobbled up all the ice before I got a chance to photograph it!

Cookies

Again an attempt at the age old cookies for Parth's birthday present. This was in addition to the chaklis she had made. So it was an entire day's cooking with two recipes back to back.

She decorated them with great care unleashing her creativity as usual.

Janmaashtami ( 2012) prasadam

Seen here are the girls making the prasadam with full vigour. Singing along with me and absolutely enjoying the process of rolling the cheedais.

Biscuits

Another attempt all by herself. She made sweet wheat dough ( wheat, sugar, butter with a pinch of water) , baked it and then served it with a topping of strawberry jam which she made by squashing strawberries & slightly cooking them with powdered sugar.

Corn Chaklis

Chellu tried some chaklis by herself as a birthday present for Parth, one of our family friends' child. We had visited an exhibition during Diwali where one shop was selling the achus ( dies) for making chaklis. She was fascinated when she was the shop-keeper making the chaklis. So I got her the die- a child friendly plastic one.
She guessed the ingredients and made the atta very well. All by herself. The result was amazing for the first attempt- only that it was a little spongy as compared to crunchy due to the corn flour added.