‘Creamless in Gurgaon’…and sans baking chocolate too!

This is almost like ‘Sleepless in Seattle’. What agony is this? With the flooding in Gujarat a few months ago, and a blazing hot summer in North India prior to that, cream has all but disappeared from the market. To make matters worse, baking chocolate has done the number too. We used to get decent tetrapaks of cream from Vijaya and Amul, and I found ways and means of reaching my end product even though the cream had a low fat content (20-30%). Cadbury’s used to do baking chocolate slabs in 500gm lots ,which I had got and stacked up. Sadly, I have exhausted my supply. Nestle’s dark baking chocolate has always been hard to come by, but the few times I got it by bribing a friend, I guarded it like gold. It has great taste, and good cocoa content, but is nowhere to be found now. Guess its down to substituting again…good old cocoa plus butter!! Tried the Armenian Nut Cake yesterday due to the paucity of cream and chocolate. DH loved it, but the kids weren’t too impressed as it wasn’t sweet enough for their spoilt tastebuds! Oh well….one day, we shall overcome!!