Strawberry Shortcake Cobbler

Its either the month of red or abundance of strawberry in the market that has desserts overflowing in my kitchen. I sometimes have to stop my cousins back from work to give away extra love :P

I think I may have to enroll myself to a gymnasium. I won't be indulging in how I'm hitting the realizing point, but that scary word which starts with an F and ends with T, this is where I'm heading too and it's daunting.

Sometimes I wonder how everyone who don't hit the gym choose to stay fit in the city. I am looking for ways to do so and any suggestions are welcome.

And to that thought, we must not waste this beautiful cobbler. Its yummy certified by Ozzy :)

This recipe was sourced from Recipe Girl

Recipe follows:

1 Cup All Purpose Flour
1 Cup Cornmeal
3/4 cup Sugar, divided
2 Tsp Baking Powder
6 Tbsp Butter, cold and cubed { I used salted and omitted Salt from the recipe}
1 Large Egg
1/2 Cup Milk, {I used toned milk}
450 Gms Strawberries, hulled and sliced

2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice

1 Tbsp Cornstarch

Procedure:

Preheat oven to 375 Degree F (190 degree C). Grease a pie dish.

Combine Strawberries, lemon juice, cornstarch and 1/4 cup of sugar in a bowl and let it sit for 15 - 20 minutes.

In another bowl, mix flour, cornmeal, baking powder and cubed butter. With your hands, lightly mix them together until it is incorporated. or you could use a pastry cutter to mix butter into flour.

Whisk an egg and milk together in a small bowl and add it to the pastry mix.

Scrape all of the strawberries and juices to the prepared pie dish and add spoonful of pastry mix on top of it to cover.

Bake for 25 - 30 minutes or until the top is golden brown and strawberry juice is bubbling on the sides.

Let it sit for 10 - 15 minutes to cool.

Serve warm with an ice-cream or whipped cream :)

Strawberry Cheesecake

It all started with love and hate relationship I have with Strawberry from past few years.
Earlier anything served pink or with strawberry flavor was looked down upon and later it changed with one trip to Strawberry fields.

So for few years still shy about experimenting, I was introduced to the creamy heaven. Lot of desserts thereafter were strawberry based but this one still holds a special place.

With low availability of Cream cheese in India, this cheesecake was made with available substitutes and the cream cheese was made at home for this cake.

Recipe follows:
Source: Rajul


For the Base:
1 Packet Digestive Biscuits
2 Tbsp Granulated Sugar
3 Tbsp Melted Butter


For the Cake:
125gms Cottage Cheese / Cream cheese
3 Tbsp Thick curd
1 Tbsp Whipped or Any cream
3/4 Cup Strawberry Crush
1 1/2 Tbsp Gelatin
1/8 Cup Condensed Milk or Desired Sweetness
1/2 cup Milk
200 gms Vanilla Ice cream

Procedure:

Crush digestive biscuits to fine crumbs, add sugar and melted butter to it. Press down the crumbs to a greased spring form dish. Chill in refrigerator to set.

Add crumble cottage cheese, cream, curd and strawberry crush in a mixer and churn till smooth.

Soak Gelatin in enough water for 2 minutes and melt on double boiler.

Bring Ice cream out and left it to soften. Meanwhile bring Milk to boil with condensed milk or desired sweetness until thickens.

Mix cheese mixture with thickened milk and beat till smooth. Add gelatin and mix.
Fold cheese mixture to ice cream until smooth texture is achieved.

Pour this mixture to the biscuit base and refrigerate until firm.

Serve with fresh fruits strawberries or crush.