As cold as cold cake.

Read this post carefully! If I were you I’d bookmark it. This deals with two very important things.

       1-       How to make cold cake.

       2-       How to make your heart cold.

Lolz – Both are extremely simple. I shall keep it short and sweet and start with the latter, and that is how to turn your heart into a very cold stone… are you guys ready?

Okay here we go …stop caring. No one is worth it. Heehee, and this is life guys – like it or leave it.

To whoever is reading this remember you are not everyone’s cup of tea …and that is okay. Perfectly okay. 

BE WHO YOU ARE!

 For me a person who is himself is the best. No drama for me boyses.

Remember no one is going to save you and you need to be your own hero baby! You don’t need to explain yourself to anyone. You are you and you don’t need xyz’s stamp of approval. Live your life and do what makes you happy.

Moving on – you can’t please everyone in life but I have something that pleases everyone and that my lovelies is my precious cold cake! So take notes peeps.

 Ingredients –

1 big roll of Marie biscuits, broken into pieces.

1 pack of cream

1 egg

4 tbsp of cocoa powder

4 tbsp of sugar.

Mix all on high heat till you see it leaving the sides.

Next take a big square piece of foil and place the batter prepared above on one side – and roll in to a log.

(Take care not to fold the foil in between when you are rolling with the mixture)

Into the fridge for almost 4 to 5 hours, unroll it and cut into pieces.

If required, cover with caster sugar or drizzle with some melted chocolate.

Ending on a precious life lesson people, 

Till the next time we meet, 

Much love,

Urooba.

WHAT THE VALENTINE?

Cupid’s cloud – dessert filled with cream, nuts and strawberries

This weekend I have decided to stay in! Traffic signals swamped with young kids selling roses, the malls overly decorated with nauseating red balloons, scary stuffed animals, overpriced deals and chocolates. Absolute, utter and total nonsense on local and international channels alike and outright controversy over the internet regarding the celebration of this day.

My opinion is pretty neutral on all this and I say this LOL’ing. Well celebrate it – no harm in doing so but don’t go overboard and please go easy on the reds and colognes.

According to me you don’t need one day to tell someone you love them, the rest of the 364 days are equally important! Ban on celebrations in Islamabad and ban on swimming in Karachi (wonder why?) the best thing this valentine’s day is the buy 1 get 1 free offer from Subway, I get to watch F.R.I.E.N.D.S back to back in my PJ’s and the fact that I got to taste the Devils my bad, the Cupid’s cloud.

Want clouds?? – follow the recipe below!

Cupid’s Cloud

1 cup Strawberry, chopped finely.

1 cup cashews, chopped finely.

½ cup cream, stiffly whipped.

4 tbsp castor sugar.

Tiny drop of red food coloring.

Mix all and chill for a good couple of hours.

Eat and Enjoy.

P.S Wishing you all a very happy Valentine’s  ….or not (suit yourself)

Best,

Urooba.

TO GREAT FRIENDS AND BROWNIES.

Chocolate Walnut Brownies

Today I would like to raise my coffee to some of the most important people of my life. I met them 10 years ago (wow had to actually count on fingers this time). The first 6 months were what I would count as that of polite smiles and awkward intros but what happened next was pure awesomeness – with a CAPITAL, bold, Underlined and Italic “A”

Sipping coffee and eating these brownies and watching you all on my laptop (you all know what you were doing on my laptop) Thanks to you all I smile!

Ramu, Mayan, Foo and Halz, thanks for always being there. Distances don’t matter I guess when you are this close. Its more like Islamabad, Rawalpindi, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe and Norway all fit perfectly fine onto one WhatsApp group – Thanks to different time zones I wake up to 275 messages on Whatsapp.

The best lot! I would give anything to hang out in college with you all, make the most of those 4 years, bunk more and take yet more pictures and most of all remember to have yet more meaningless conversations and be moree of a grammar nazi.

To you I raise “Coffee and Brownies”

And for the rest of you out there enjoy these Chocolate Walnut Brownies (Courtesy Foo)

Chocolate Walnut Brownies

1 cup flour

1 cup milk

1 egg

¾ cup oil

¾ cup sugar

½ cup cocoa powder

2 tsp baking powder

Mix all, and pour into a greased glass dish.

Into the microwave, yes microwave for 5 mins before doing the skewer test.

Let it cool for a while before turning it out – cool for a while, frost and eat.

P.S we made these brownies for our annual bake sale, I guess 5 kg flour was used and 5 hours were spent but the best part was finding Brownie remains after 5 weeks.

Cheers to the 5 of us!

Try and let me know if you find these Brownies as amazing as the 5 of us.

Ignore the crappy pictures, and feel the moment instead :p

Best,

Urooba.