Chocolate Pudding

 I love the fact that my family is waiting for me to unveil the desserts these days!

 Normally I do not make desserts.  I live with a family of picky eaters (who does not) but my elder one, Apeksha   does not eat sweets, younger one, Akanksha is not predictable, dairy milk and she is happy, hubby avoids them and FIL is diabetic. It’s too much trouble for the one person left ...me!

I would rather rack my brains for something that we will all eat. This rarely happens!

In preparation of BM #20  I make this pudding and un-moulded.  Was I in for a surprise? I had absolutely no expectations from it. In fact I was not expecting it to come out so beautifully ... no sticky mould, And so very smooth....

Even as I was admiring it I was wondering what the topping should be when disaster struck! Akanksha tasted it and gave me a lot of “bad press.”

Strawberry Truffles

Everytime I promise myself that I will post regularly!

 In fact my pictures are all ready but my matter is not. Why the matter of simply putting down what I have done down is getting me in such a tizzy I do not know.  Net result now I have managed to complicate matters for myself.

Not only have I not got my recharge visiting all my friends places I am in a soup for I am unable to remember deadlines, events and most importantly my cooking is down on a scale of 1-10 I am somewhere near 1 or 2 if not zero.

Anyway I had forgotten the BM dates. Yes I a part of the BM# 20. Can you imagine my surprise that it’s on 10^th Sept. and thanks to the cats and dogs raining out here my pictures are an all time low. Plus they are all night pictures. Sorry.

For the BM I have choosen to use our (the family) favourite as my theme so this  time it is  CHOCOLATES!   

Yorkshire Parkin(?)/Cake

Why the question mark after the Parkin you may ask?

 Well I did not know what Parkin is till this moment and what I have baked is definitely not parkin.  Parkins are North English form of ginger bread. I left out the most important ingredient ginger not because I don’t have it my people do not like ginger much. So it is more of a cake than a parkin.

The whole story began When Susan of a The Well-Seasoned Cook put up this beautiful picture of Yorkshire Parkin I flipped.

 I had to make it!