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Delicious Plum Cake Recipe

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Although Christmas is gone but there is no reason why we can’t relish on delicious delights such as Plum Cake. So get your kitchen accessories in order because here is the final recipe of the series: Ingredients: Refined flour – 1 cup Baking powder – ½ tsp Cocoa Powder – 2 tbsp Walnuts chopped – 2 tbsp Raisins chopped – 3 tbsp Softened butter – ½ cup Brown Sugar – 1 cup Vanilla essence – Few drops Eggs – 3 Lemon zest – 1 tsp Plum Cake Method: 1 - Firstly, preheat the oven to 160 degree. 2 - Take a cake tin and grease it well with softened butter. (Remember to grease it and not coat it) 3 - Sieve the flour along with the baking powder in a bowl. Add the cocoa powder and mix it well. 4 - Then one by one add the walnuts and raisins and again mix it well. 5 - Take another bowl and cream the butter, brown sugar and vanilla essence in it with the help of an electric mixer. 6 - Beat the mixture of brown sugar and vanilla essence it until it has frothed. ...

Chocolate and Vanilla Red Velvet Cake Recipe

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With Holiday Season striking the correct chord it’s time to look forward to the New Year and engage in preparation for the celebration reloaded after Christmas. So get your kitchen accessories in order and this time to prepare the deliciously mirthful flavor to kick off your New Year Celebration. Chocolate and Vanilla Red Velvet Cake Recipe Ingredients: Eggs – 3 Butter – ¾ cup All-purpose flour – 3 cups Unsweetened Cocoa Powder – 1 tablespoon Salt – ¾ tsp Sugar – 2 ¼ cup Red food Colouring – 2 tbsp Vanilla essence - 1 ½ tsp Butter mil of sour milk 1 ½ cup Vinegar - 1 ½ tsp Mascarpone Vanilla Bean Filling – 1 recipe Chocolate Ganache – 1 recipe Directions: 1. Take eggs and butter and allow it to stand at a room temperature for almost 30 minutes. 2. Take a 9*9*2 inch square cake pan and grease it with butter and a little flour. Set the pan aside. 3. Take a medium bowl and stir together flour, cocoa powder and saly; set aside. 4. Preheat your oven to 350 degre...

Make your website an Interactive Kingdom

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It shouldn't come across as a surprise to you if your blog interactions are high it connote you have higher number of visitors hanging around your website. If you take a look at the bigger picture it entails that your website has a higher propensity to build a strong relationship with the visitors. One of the core advantages of building strong relationship with visitors is that eventually you can convert them into consumers. Interactive Web Design Tips Here is a list of tools that any website design company Australia can use in order to encourage interaction within your website : Blog Interactions :  Blog is the simplest and the easiest way to gain interaction and very conveniently it is most overlooked way as well.  If your blog is fed with relevant and interesting content and is built on a stable platform like WordPress it is certain to draw increased attention to your site. Blog Interactions Social Network Integration : Integrate your blog with...

Hot Cocoa Brownie Cake Recipe

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With festive season knocking at your door now is the time to delight your appetite with ounces of sweet delight. Get your kitchen accessories online and get ready because here is an exceptionally delicious recipe of cocoa cake- a perfect fit for your holiday mood. Hot Cocoa Brownie Cake Ingredients • Package brownie mix (“ready to mix” easily available in markets and departmental store) • Whipping cup – 1/3 cup • Chocolate chopped – 4 ounces • Marshmallow Coffee Frosting • Unsweetened Cocoa Powder Procedure 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degree F. 2. Take a round cake pan of 9 * 1 ½ inches and grease its bottom. Keep the pan aside for sometime. 3. Prepare the brownie mix as mentioned in the direction. Pour the contents into the greased pan. Bake it accordingly. 4. To check whether or not your cake base is prepared take a toothpick and insert it in right into the middle of the cake. If the toothpick comes out clean then it will entail that the cake is ready. ...

Most Luxurious Mansions to Visit in a Bus

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Want a peek into life of the other half? Here is a list of the mansions that are fitted with every kind of opulence imaginable. Marble Palace Mansion, Kolkata :- The extraordinarily grand 1853 Marble Palace Mansion is indulgently overstuffed with statues and lavishly floored with marble inlay. The house is a blend of neoclassical and traditional Bengali architecture, and filled with chandeliers, mirrors and clocks. Amid the eclectic jumble of objects you'll find a mahogany bust of Queen Victoria and paintings by Rubens and Titian. There's also a lake and an aviary with peacocks and cranes. Yet the mansion's fine paintings droop in their dusty frames and the antique furniture is haphazardly draped in torn old dust sheets. It would make a great horror movie set. Visitors will need a permit from the West Bengal Tourism.  If you are planning a visit, there are multiple portals that allows O nline Bus Ticket Booking in India  from most major cities. Cheong Fatt Tze...

Maple Mascarpone Cheesecake Recipe

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With celebration mood about to strike the melodious tune of the season we are ready to serve your platter with the most delicious delights ever. Following the promise made here is the second recipe of the Christmas cake episode on 19th December . So get your kitchen accessories in order for here is the recipe of Christmas Savour ! Maple Mascarpone Cheesecake Ingredients For the crust : • Flour – ¾ cup • Brown sugar – 3 tbsp • Butter – ¼ cup • Toasted chopped pecans –¼ cup For cheesecake : • Cream cheese – 8 ounces in room temperature • Mascarpone cheese – 8 ounces in room temperature • Brown sugar – ¾ cup • Pure maple syrup – ½ cup • Half and half – ¼ cup • Flour – 2 tbsp • Vanilla – 1 tsp • Eggs – 3  Maple Whipped Cream : • Heavy Whipping Cream – 2 cups • Cup pure maple syrup – ½ cup • Vanilla – 1 tsp • Whip it! – 2 packets • Maple flakes – optional Instructions 1. Take a bowl and combine the flour and brown sugar in it...

The Most Unearthly Places on Earth

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Forty years have gone since man first landed on the moon but space travel still remains a distant dream. In the meantime, we have plenty of surreal and unearthly landscapes on the planet that attracts hoards of space aficionados and astral travelers. Valle de la Luna (Valley of the Moon), Chile :- When Aldrin described the moon's landscape as 'magnificently desolate', he might as well could have been talking about Valle de la Luna. This Chilean valley paints a surreal landscape featuring land forms fashioned by centuries of elemental erosion and distant volcanoes. To view the place in its full glory, visit during the sunset when the setting rays. Southeastern Utah, USA :- The first you see this place, you will be forgiven for thinking that you were teleported to Mars. Canyon lands and Arches National Park bears astounding similarity to the Maritian landscape with its rugged spires, craters, arches and bridges. Try to plan your visit during the summer when the Mar...

Chocolate Berry Wreath Cake Recipe

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Deliciously appetizing recipe of Chocolate Berry Wreath Cake perfect to be served alongside season’s greetings! Ingredients  Unsweetened cocoa powder cocoa  - 1 tablespoon All-purpose flour 1and a half flour Sugar 1 cup Instant expresso coffee powder – 1 tablespoon Baking Soda – 1 tsp Salt – one pinch Eggs (lightly beaten) -2 One cup of water Canola Oil or Vegetable Oil (1/3 cup) Cider vinegar or white vinegar – 1 tbsp Vanilla essence – 1 tsp Milk Chocolate Butter Frosting – 1 Assorted berries (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries) – 1 to 2 cups Strawberry jelly – 2 tablespoon White chocolate bow – 1 recipe White baking chocolate 2 ounces chopped with cocoa butter or vanilla flavor candy coating. Softened butter – 3 tablespoon Milk chocolate pieces melted and cooled – ¼ cup  Powdered sugar - ¼ cup Milk – 2 to 3 tablespoon Vanilla – 1 tsp Chocolate Berry Wreath Cake Method : 1. Preheat your oven to 35o degrees F. 2. Take a round cake b...

5 Irresistible Christmas Cake Ideas!

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As the Christmas time approach this is the time of the year to indulge in the baking paradise. This is the season of cakes and cupcakes and I have no intentions whatsoever to hold myself away from the delight. Savory that we generally cook during this time of the year is best suited to satiate the urge of sweetness of our taste buds. Microwave emerges as the most indispensable appliance around this time and the microwave cookware becomes are most Important cookware. Cakes are holiday favourite for everyone and the best way to tune your mood to the Christmas and New Year fervor is by trying out the cake recipes at least 3 months’ time ahead. Here are few awesome cake ideas perfect for Christmas Season or Holiday Get Together this year: Chocolate Berry Wreath Cake :  Rich and dark chocolate cakes always drive the chocolate lovers crazy. Coated with chocolate butter frosting and blueberry jam, the chocolate berry wreath cake is a delight for the ones who loves to indulge in th...

Book Your Hotel Near India's Top Tiger Reserves

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India's tigers face an unprecedented number of threats, from deforestation, overgrazing, poaching and rapid encroachment of urban areas into their habitats. A 2010 government survey painted an alarming picture - only 1,711 tigers remain in India's declining jungles, a mere 2% of the population that roamed the land 100 years ago. The good news is that there exists 38,000 square kilometers of protected wilderness across India which is home to not just tigers but an amazing array of flora and fauna. Here are the best lodges and reserves in the country that strive to create a better habitat for Tigers. If you are planning a trip to a tiger reserve, make your hotel reservation from a reputed online hotel booking portal to land a good discount . Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh :- This reserve is steeped in history and is home to numerous temples, hermit caves and centuries old shrines. Hailed as one of the most beautiful sanctuaries in the country, it features a var...

Beyond the Taj Mahal - Explore Agra's Tombs

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While exploring one of the numerous tombs in Agra, I heard a hollow wail that sounded like an  eerie “Hellooooo”, while I was taken aback by the disembodied voice, I quickly reminded myself that this is India where the unexpected is quite a common occurrence. I glanced across the tomb to see a sari clad women grinning at her demonstration of the tomb's perfectly angled interiors ability to reflect sound. With more than a billion people inhabiting the country, it can be a difficult to be alone in India. It can be even harder to be alone in Agra, home to the stunning Taj Mahal that attracts thousands of domestic and international visitors every year. If you are planning a trip to Agra, do check cheap air tickets online from multiple portals before booking. There is more to Agra than just the Taj Mahal, the city was the capital of the Mughal empire for centuries and their powerful and wealthy rulers held sway over much of India and Pakistan. As a  result, much of the city i...

Savour Style of the Season!

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This is the time of the year when serving savors to both family and guests always top our list of priority. With winter all set to usher the season of Christmas and the New Year celebrations this is one of the peak time when internet users are found crowding the online space in search of recipes. Christmas and New Year C elebrations R ecipe There is a very famous saying, “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach” and indeed so is it. I will although like to mention that good food is not an exclusive man’s paradise. Women take as much pleasure in satisfying their appetite with deliciousness as much as men do. Divided by their genders and united in the desire for deliciousness good food served acts as major energy and mood stimulant for those who love to have food. Tasty and good looking food when served in elegant cradles present a combination to yearn for. With the look of the food served enhanced, the appetite of those it is served to will invariably escalate a fe...

My Life in a Metro

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So here I am in Delhi, the capital city of India and I am all set to start a new life of mine. Life has been wonderful to me over the years that I spent in my birth city Kolkata, and now when it gave me an opportunity to explore the unseen. I grabbed on to the opportunity and today here I am in Delhi, all set to enjoy the new installment of my life.  Today it has been almost a month since I moved in here in Delhi. I have a job that I love, a flat (obviously on shared basis) and yes the most important and my treasured microwave oven. Delhi Market So as I discover my new found life, I discover along the way the new found ways to live up to it as well. I always lived under the protective shelter of my family so never before this day I have known the importance of simple household chores or say microwave cookware in Delhi . Life here is mine and yes I have to take care of every little thing over here. Career and my profession although persists to be the top priority yet I canno...

Top 5 Boutique Hotels in Goa

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Travelers to Goa are increasingly opting for boutique hotels in favour of traditional beach shacks.  From secluded beach houses to charming colonial villas, Goa offers tons of boutique hotels to ensure maximum fun and relaxation. The Elsewhere Beach Houses :- Nestled away in a secluded part of the Mandrem beach strip that can only be reached by a bamboo bridge across the creek. It is the perfect lodging for honeymooners and anyone who wants to get away from it all and just relax.  The resort consists of 4 charming houses and each of them accommodate 4-6 people. If you are looking for the cheapest air ticket to Goa, make sure you check multiple portals before your make your booking. Hotel Oceanic :-  If you are looking for a budget hotel in Goa near Palolem then Hotel Oceanic is one of those places which balances a fine line between service and value. The six rooms in this resort is beautifully located amidst palm and mango trees . There is an outdoor pool, a re...

Do’s and Don’ts of Web Design

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How do you understand whether or not your website will reap desired results? The two most important factors determining the success of any website is its utility and usability. It is imperative for a business regardless of its size to have a user centric website.  Having a user centric design has become a standard approach for a successful and profit oriented web design.  It is important for the site to ensure usability for its users only then can it serve its purpose. Effective Web Design Tips Below mentioned are the basic and the most important do’s and don’ts of effective web design . 1.  Do keep your pages properly structured - In recent months the great grid layouts and CSS files are used extensively for web design. The most famous among them being the 960.gs and the one that is relatively cooler being the 1 kb grid.The grid system is popularly used for designing the layouts of magazines and newspapers and when followed in case of websites it helps them t...

How to Design Website Effectively?

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The advent of internet has been one of greatest boons for the society. It has remarkable tools that to help you enhance the design of your website . It provides you with the option to turn your website into a masterpiece integrated with visual applets and special effects. There are numerous template options and effects available online that you can incorporate in your site. These are the adornment that will allow your website to become more appealing and desired by your visitors. Web Design Tips Here are few tips in which you can allure more visitors to your website by enhancing its attractiveness:  Tip 1 - Allure visitors with Graphics and/or Photos : As human beings we are visual creatures and visual appeals us the most. Try to use meaningful and attractive and graphics to support the contents included in your website. Images will also help to convey your message clearly and more objectively.  Tip 2 - Include Professional Color Scheme : Your website...

Things you need to start a life by yourself

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Life in 21st century is very mobile and unbelievably unpredictable. Today we are here and there isn't any certainty whatsoever that where we might land up tomorrow or day after. Hence it is savvy to be conversant of the ways of living a simple lifestyle all by yourself. Here is what I think is most important for an individual who is lucky enough to start a life by own at his or her own means in metropolitan cities of the world: 1. Basic Kitchen accessories : For the industrious people out there who wish to start their life by their own the first and foremost they should concentrate on is to gear up their kitchen or place with basic kitchen accessories . For starters you might get yourself either a heater or a stove top to help you commence cooking at your own place. You can go for rice cooker as an alternate. Believe it or not I have cooked from kitchen to Hilsa on rice cooker and man does it lives up to my appetite cravings and saves mullahs. The only drawback in case of...

Top 5 Budget Hotels in Bangkok

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Bangkok is one of those cities which offers a huge range of hotels to choose, in just about any budget. From funky serviced apartments, to opulence reeking 5 starers to slick boutique hotels and dingy hostels. Though the budget hotels in Bangkok had had a seedy reputation in past, it is fast changing thanks to numerous slick, compact properties mushrooming all over the city. Loy La Long :- Nestled away behind Chinatown's massive temple, Loy La Long is a unique B&B  that is part of the growing trend of 'green hoteliers'. This quaint  2 storey teak house overlooks the Chao Praya river and features 7 rooms decked in recycled materials and bold colours. However, the highlight of the hotel is the lovely cushion-strewn common area that overlooks the river.  Guests vouch that they have never seen a more perfect spot for an evening of beer and friendly banter. Budget   Hotels in Bangkok are notoriously located near noisy streets and tourist traps, Loy La Long is ...