For this month’s Baking Partners Challenge Swathi gave three cookie recipes chosen by the members of the group. We are free to try out any recipe within the three. Tina of http://www.pinaycookingcorner.com selected Ultimate Chocolate and Cream Cheese Cookies from Food & Wine Best of the Best Cookbook Recipes Vol. 14. The cookie recipe…
I have used cocoa powder to make cookies but this is the first time I am using melted chocolate in my cookie recipe. Though the colour is a bit light, the cookie was very nice with chocolate flavour. It also has chocolate chips in them. I saw this recipe in…
For this month’s Baking Eggless group challenge, I selected a simple but delicious quick bread from Orange Blossom Water blog by Dimah. Lemon in baking gives a great flavour to the dish. If coconut is added the bread must be super delicious. I tried it with milk and apple cider…
If you are a regular visitor of my blog, you would have noticed that I have not posted any recipes last week. I missed my group challenges and reveal dates. The reason is my daughter was down with fever and I was totally depressed without knowing the reason for this…
I bought a new book about cookies. It is a tamil book and there were lots and lots of recipes for cookies. I had a box of dates to be used and so I tried out this recipe which uses dates. The cookies were crispy and crunchy and delicious with…
Happy Friendship Day to all my readers Today the recipe from Vaishali’s blog is a guilt free samosa which is baked. It uses only a tablespoon of oil for the batch of 20-22 small samosas. I love samosas and as it is deep fried I have not prepared it at…
For the second day of Blogging Marathon, I chose to prepare ginger almond biscuits from Vaishali’s blog. Almonds are good source of calcium. I was searching for the calcium content of almonds and I came across a site, which gave it as 37mg of calcium in 14.5gm of almonds. So…
Lamingtons are sponge cakes dipped in chocolate icing and covered with coconut. The origin of this cake is Australia but it is also found in South African cafes. For this month’s Baking Eggless Group challenge, I chose Lamingtons from David Lebovitz’s blog. Mostly two layers of square cake pieces are…
Yesterday I saw these beautiful stuffed bread rolls on facebook. One of my friends on face book shared this. I at once visited the blog for the recipe. The blog is Fauzia’s Kitchen Fun and the recipe was wonderful. Though my rose rolls are not as cute as Fauzia’s, they…
This month’s Daring Bakers’ Challenge is Crazy For Crackers. The host Dana McFarlane, a non blogger challenged the daring bakers to bake crackers. I have posted 3 cracker recipes before. I have been trying to get the perfect cracker for a while. Since I love the Britannia cream crackers and…