Osterbrot is the German Easter Bread which is soft and cake like. Studded with black currants and lemon zest they are very delicious. This bread has eggs and cake flour and so the texture is more cake like than a bread. For this month’s Daring Baker’s Challenge, Wolf of Wolf’s…
Babka is an easter speciality made in Eastern Europe. The Jewish version of babka is usually baked in a laof pan with twisted dough filled with cinnamon or chocolate. The yeasted cake is topped with streusel, a crunchy topping made of flour, butter and sugar. This month’s Baking Partner Challenge…
For this month’s Home Baker’s Challenge, Pallavi of Thou Shalt Cook, suggested the members three recipes. As I have made zebra cake and cake pops earlier, I wanted to try out the patterned swiss roll she suggested. I was googling for some patterns on the cake and stumbled upon a…
Today it is time for our visit to Goa, which is the smallest state of India. It has it boundaries with Maharashtra and Karnataka and Arabian sea at the western side. When I think of Goa I think of its beach and the tourists. The cuisine of Goa is so…
This month’s Baking Eggless Challenge was suggested by Priya Srinivasan of Enveetu Kitchen. As this year would be only breads at Baking Eggless, Priya suggested this Norwegian Christmas Bread which is loaded with raisins and candied citron. If you are not familiar with citron, it is nothing but naarthangai which…
Two months back I started baking with eggs. And I started a separate blog to feature all my experiments with eggs in baking. But it would take years to reach out to my audience. So I have started sharing my bakes using eggs in this blog itself. Even now I…
All my last month’s pending challenges will be posted this month. Last month’s International Food Challenge started by Saraswathi and Shobana, was hosted by Sharanya. Every month a region’s cuisine is explored and for the month of February it was Andalusia, the southern part of Spain. She gave us four…
Recently I have been experimenting a lot with eggs in my baking. Though I don’t eat eggs, I have started using eggs in baking since I started Sai Bakes – My baking venture in Madurai. It is quite interesting and customers are loving the bakes a lot. And I have been…
Brioche is a French Bread which is made of enriched dough. The dough is high in butter and egg content and results in a very soft crumb. Every time I see a brioche recipe, I take a step backward seeing the amount of eggs used. But when I saw this…
Who knows about blondies? I heard of blondies only two months back but never bothered to check the recipe. This month Sharanya of Just Not The Cakes hosted the challenge at Home Bakers and one of the recipes she chose was a Blondie. So I googled to know about it.…