Cocoa Cake with Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cinnamon Frosting

I wanted to do something different for my Halloween Event, had lot of things in mind, but could not accomplish all because of the time crunch and in weekdays I get much tired and loose interest in experiments too much. So I kept it simple, but tried to include the ingredients related to my event and as always keep in mind to use healthy alternative on ingredients. Well I hope I accomplished it with the recipe, but by the time I made this and waited on the cake to cool down to decorate with frosting, it was night and could not do well on the pictures. But anyways something is better than nothing right ?? :)

Here is my event ending on the 5th of Nov...and the recipe follows below the event logo....

Ingredients:

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Method:

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1. Preheat oven to 350F.

2. In a mixing bowl add the dry ingredients and mix them with a whisk.

3. In another mixing bowl with a hand mixer blend all the wet ingredients.

4. Now add the dry ingredients to the wet and blend it slowly or until mixed.

5. You can either fill this mixture in a a cup cake pan to make cup cakes or in a baking pan to make cake. I used the baking pan and baked it as a cake.

6. If the batter is used to make cup cakes it will make about 6 cup cakes and will make a medium sized cake.

7. I topped it with walnuts, you can choose any kind of nuts or keep it optional.

8. Bake the cake for about 20 - 25 mins or until done.

9. Allow it to cool and then decorate with the frosting.

Method:

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1. In a bowl add all the ingredients, and with a hand mixer blend all the ingredients well.

2. Refrigerate it until the cake is done and cooled.

3. Now pipe the frosting on to the cake with any design of your choice or just spread it over the cake or cupcake.

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Berry Cobbler My Way - Easy Fast N Healthy

I have used all kinds of berries in most of my recipes, mostly try to use all berries in one dessert. This is another recipe which I wanted to do it fast, yet keep my goal in mind to keep it healthy with less fatty ingredients.

I was browsing for dessert recipes to make it along with the Lentil Soup (my previous post), which I was taking it to the office, where they would collect money from employees to donate it to the food bank. I know I would spend most of my time making the lentil soup I didn't want to again spend lot of time on the dessert which is too much on a weekday.

So I came up with this easy recipe, as soon as I made and was taking it out to check if it's done....my son came to me and asked as to what I was making...so I told him..it's a berry cobbler. For a min he kept quite and asked is it berry pie? I just said yes, cos it would be hard for me to explain the difference to him. :))

I did ask him if he wanted to taste some or I can save some for him...but he didn't want it. So I decided to take the whole dessert to the office.

I have taken few different pics, as I had to make it again and the reason for doing so is........................

The next day as I was picking my son up from school, he asked me if I did take it to the office, I said yes and he asked where is my piece? So I promised him to make one for him and would only add his choice of berries in it, so I made it again on the weekend, this time I made individual desserts and took more pics....:))

Method:
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1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. In a large mixing bowl add all the berries, sugar and corn starch and mix it gently with a fork, just until all the berries are covered with the sugar and the corn starch.

3. Transfer these berries into any oven safe bowl or a pie pan or a glass bowl or your choice of cook and serv dish.
4. Now in another mixing bowl add the bisquick mix/pancake mix, add water and cinnamon and gently mix with a whisk/wooden sppon/ fork just until mixed, a little bit of lumps is absolutely fine.

5. Add this mixture over the berries and cover the berries as much as possible, it does not have to look neat. :)
6. Crush the mollasses cookies or any flavored cookies of your choice with hand or use a blender, if you are using hard cookies. My mollasses cookies were soft so I used my hand to crush them directly over the bisquick mix.

7. Bake it for about 30-40 mins until the top is slightly golden. Make sure the bottom part of the bisquick mix is also cooked trhough.
8. Serve this hot/warm/cold with or without your choice of whipped cream/ice cream/any toppings etc.,
(Decorate it with your choice of toppings on a serving plate.:)

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