Jana of Cherry Tea Cakes challenged the Daring Bakers to prepare French Fraisier. Fraisier consists of a sponge cake split into two, moistened with simple syrup, filled with strawberry and pastry cream and covered with almond paste and is decorated with strawberries. In Madurai, I can never expect to get…
BAKES
Eggless Butterless Lemon Cupcakes
Today is the third day of Blogging Marathon#7-Group 2 and I decided to bake cupcakes. Though I have done many eggless versions I have not tried butterless version often. Today I needed to do a butterless version and tried this lemony cup cakes. This is an experiment and I have…
Baked Nippattu / Savory Onion Crackers
Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon-Group 2. I had book marked this recipe even before I started blogging. Atlast I prepared these delicious crackers for our evening coffee today. My daughter liked it a lot. I have used olive oil instead of butter used in the original recipe.…
Eggless Gingerbread Biscotti
Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon-Group 2. I have selected Butterless Baking for diet. For the first day I did not experiment with any bake. I just selected a recipe with no butter. But I had to convert it to an eggless recipe. This Biscotti is from Joy…
Banana Blossom Sandwich
When preparing cutlets, I got this idea of preparing sandwich with the banana blossom mix. As I had bread slices, I tried it at once. It was so delicious. I baked the sandwich. The flavored bread crumbs gave a nice flavor to the sanwich.It was so crispy. We enjoyed it…
Mini Banana Blossom Cutlets
I prepared these cute and soft cutlets using banana blossom and potatoes. For coating, I used fresh bread crumbs with herbs for a different flavor. I also baked them to make a healthy snack. We enjoyed it with tomato sauce yesterday evening. I made them smaller in size and kids…
Eggless Pound Cake
For this month’s Sweet Punch , the team selected Pound Cake from The Cake Bible by Rose. The method of preparation is quite different from the usual cake making. Usually we beat butter and sugar and then add the dry ingredients. But in this recipe, dry ingredients are mixed together…
Baklava with Home Made Phyllo Sheets
Erica of Erica’s Edibles challenged the Daring Bakers to prepare Phyllo Sheets from scratch and prepare the famous Baklava. I have always wanted to prepare baklava, but as we don’t get phyllo sheets here, I skipped it. But when I came to know that phyllo sheets can be made at home,…
Eggless Pumpkin Cake
When a reader of my blog asked about a recipe for carrot cake, I did some experimenting to get a perfect egggless cake. Today, I had a pumpkin in my kitchen and thinking about using it in a baked dish, I got this idea. I just used grated pumpkin instead…
Oat Bran and Flax Seeds Whole Wheat Broom Bread
While I was searching for a recipe using oat bran, I found this recipe at applepiepatispate.com. The ingredients interested me. It has only wheat flour and oat bran. This sounded very healthy and nutritious. So at once I started the preparation. We need three days to prepare this bread. First…