How to Make Ice Cream

Making Ice cream is not that much hard, but is actually quite easy. Ever wander that you could make your own home-made ice-cream for real? Let's make that dream a reality then.

Here goes a simple guide on how to make a basic Ice cream.

• Ingredients
  
  
  
  
  • Fresh Milk - 825 ml
  • Fresh Cream - 675 ml
  • Sugar - 375 g
  • Glucose - 75 g
  • Egg Yolk - 300 g
  • Vanilla Bean - 2nos.
  
  
• Steps
  
  
  
  • Boil Milk, Sugar and Cream
    
    
    
    Bring the mix to a medium heat. Stir well to dissolve the sugar.
    
    
  • Split vanilla bean, squeeze the pod into the milk, add glucose
    
    
    
    
  • Off fire, stir well and pour the egg yolk
    
    
    
    Continue stirring. Don't let the egg curdle.
    
    
  • Finally strain the mixture, let it cool
    
    
    
    
  • Pour into a container and seal
    
    
    
    
  • Freeze it in the machine to the correct level of freezing point.
    Store it in the Deep freezer for about 2 hours. Remove from freezer about 15 minutes before serving.
    
    
    
    
    
  • Enjoy!
    
    
    

How to Maintain a Healthy Diet

If you take some time to look around you, you would see many people of serious illnesses. They would give anything for living a single day sick-free. It's natural. You realize everything, after they are gone.
But, I believe you have taken a good choice to go along with a healthy diet in order to stay healthy.

To maintain a healthy diet, Follow these recommendations:

• Drink water. More water.
  
  
  
  Let's start off easy. Humans should drink a liter or more water per day. Water is the best cure for everything. It keeps your body at correct temperature and makes you feel cool. You'll be healthier enough without sweating.
  
  Water clears your skin, controls your eating, help your kidneys. Just give it some try. I bet the results will be ultra-satisfactory.
  
  
• Don't miss your breakfast
  
  
  
  Be sure to take time to eat the most important meal of the day. A light but healthy breakfast will energize you whole day. Eat a brain boosting breakfast to energize yourself and improve your alertness. Because breakfast foods can either boost or squander you brain power.
  
  
• Eat well at every meal
  
  
  
  Once you establish a steady eating pattern, your body will feel more comfortable. Eat more vegetables and fruits. That's the best thing to do.
  
  But, not all fats are bad for you. Oily fish like salmon and avocados, olive oil contains good fat which is essential for you.
  
  
• Eat at the correct times
  
  
  
  Take your evening meal around 5pm and 8pm. It'll make easy for your body to digest food.
  
  Avoid taking snacks at late night. They will fill you with extra calories. But, if your are used that, stick to eat seed, fruits and vegetables. But, controlling what's going to your stomach is up to you. You, yourself have to manage it.
  
  
• Your meatless eating pattern
  
  
  
  Considering our talk so far, meat hasn't played pretty much of a role. It's better being vegetarian. It will reduce excess calories and will add lots and lots of vitamins and minerals. And also add high-fiber food to your diet. It will control cholesterol, blood-sugar level and do some miracles even.
  
  
• Avoid Processed Food
  
  
  
  Always try to produce food inside your home. It's healthier and even makes you feel better.
  
  But, there comes a time when you really have to buy processed food. Make sure you read the labels and watch for added bad stuff: salt, sugar and fat. If they are in high amounts, Avoid them!

How to make Cupcakes

Cupcakes are small cakes made for one person, And we not only make cupcakes for special occasions, in fact we makes them for all occasions! And also for fun!

Here goes a simple recipe for making cupcakes deliciously.

• Ingredients (for 25 cupcakes) :
  
           Cupcake:
  
  
  
  
  
  • Sugar  -  250g
  • Margarine/Butter  -  250g
  • Flour  -  250g
  • Eggs  -  4
  • Baking Powder  -  2 tea spoons
  • Milk  -  1/2 cup
  • Vanilla  -  2 tea spoons
  • Essence 
    
    Fluff Frosting:
    
    
  • Milk - 1/4 cup
  • Butter  -  10 table spoons
  • Icing sugar  -  500g
  • Essence
  • Icing color

• Preparing the batter

• Beat Sugar and Margarine to a peak level
  
  
  For better results let your Margarine come to room temperature. Because, when mixing with dry ingredients, cold ingredients doesn't combine well.
  
  
  
• Add Eggs little by little and mix well
  
  
  
  
  
  Use large eggs. When putting 4 eggs to the bowl, First put them in to 2 separate dishes and  after adding eggs to the mixture, then put the other 2 eggs to those dishes and again add them to the mixture in short intervals. This step is done, because if one egg is spoiled chances are you'll put it on a good egg. So, both eggs happen to be useless then.
  
  
  
• Sieve Flour and Baking Powder, and fold into the mix gently
  
  
  Take spoonfuls of sieved flour and baking powder and put into the bowl while beating. If it seems to be solid, pour milk in regular intervals. Beat with the electric mixer until well combined.
  
  
  
• Add vanilla essence into the bowl and mix gently
  
  

•   Preheat the Oven at 180 C / 350 F
  
  
  
  When you're baking anything, make sure you preheat your oven. If you put cupcakes into the oven and expect them to be just fine, that's a BIG mistake!
  
• Preparing the Cupcake Pan
  
  
  
  • Place your paper or foil baking cups in Cupcake Pan cavities
    
    
    
  • Fill pan cavities 1/2 to 2/3 full
    
    
    
    Use 2 plastic butter knives or a cookie scoop for this. This will help you to equally measure the batter into you cupcake liners. And, remember not to overfill the cupcake liners. The batter will spill out when baking. Be mindful that your cupcakes will rise.
  
  
• Baking your Cupcakes
  
  
  
  • Put the Cupcakes in the Oven
    
    
    
    
    Once your cupcakes are inside the oven, Do NOT Peek! Let them bake for 20 minutes. If you're baking several pans at the same time, you may need few more minutes to let them be.
    You can test your cupcakes whether they are done or not, while they're still in the oven by inserting a cake tester or a toothpick in to the center cupcakes in your pan.
    
  • Cool Cupcakes in the pan
    
    
    
    
    Leave cupcakes in the pan and let them cool itself for ONLY 5 minutes. Otherwise, they will continue to dry out.
    
  • Cool completely on a Cooling Grid
    
    
    
    I know that it's hard to resist the eagerness to eat baked cupcakes straight from the oven. Because they smell so divine!!!) But you should leave them to cool down before starting to frost. Chances are you'll end up with melted frost cupcakes.
  
  
• Frosting Your Cupcakes
  
  
  
  • Cream Margarine with Icing sugar
    
    
    
    
    In a bowl, beat Margarine/Butter with the Electric Mixer until it get light and fluffy. Then add Icing sugar one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed.
    Gradually, add milk when icing begin to appear dry.
    
  • Choose Icing colors
    
    
    
    Use concentrated icing color. Dip a toothpick into the color tube, then swirl it into the white icing. Add color until you get the shade you desire. Then Blend icing well with a spatula.
    
    
  • Choose an icing nozzle
    
    
    
  • Fill Icing into a Piping Bag
    Before filling the icing into piping bag place your nozzles in the tip of the piping bag. And then fill icing into it. After that, twist the other end of the piping bag and get ready to decorate your cupcakes.
    
    
  • Decorate your Cupcake in a way you desire
    Use different nozzles and different icing colors and make your cupcakes divine :)
    
    
  • Finished!