Last week has been a disastrous week for me. After I got a recipe request for the eggless pineapple cake, I bought a pineapple home. When I first tried a recipe for the cake, it ended as being fudgy and gluey. So I had to discard the cake. Unfortunately, I ended…
After showing you how to make the edible sugar lace yesterday, I will show you how it is used on cakes. But before going into that details, I would like to share with you a very happy news. Gayathri’s Cook Spot has completed four years successfully and has entered the…
Wish you all a Very Happy Deepavali!! Making Petit Fours has been in my list for long. I even thought of making this for the mega BM which I participated last month, but after I went after cookies, I just postponed it. And this month I have been posting for…
For this month’s Baking Partner’s challenge, Divya Ashok of DD’s Bake shop suggested we try strawberry cake. Divya decorates cakes and you need to visit her site to look at her beautiful creations. For this challenge, we need to make the cake and do some basic decorations. As we don’t…
For last week’s Fondbite’s Bake Along, Subhashini chose a very healthy cake recipe using ragi flour. As you all know ragi or finger millet with so many health benefits. I read somewhere that it is rich in calcium, has a high fibre content, makes a great baby food, good for…
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For this month’s Daring Baker’s Challenge, Ruth of The Crafts of Mommyhood challenged the members with Surprise! cakes. Just look at the cake below. It looks like an ordinary loaf cake with glazing. And where is the surprise element? That is the surprise. You need to read this with patience to…
For this month’s Baking Partner’s Challenge, Reeni of Cinnamon Spice and Everything Nice selected a dessert with berries. The shorcake unlike the butter loaded ones is made with heavy cream. It was quite easy to make. The secret of getting a flaky short cake is the dough needs to be crumbly…
One of my aunts, Shanthi, reads my blog whenever she gets a chance and she encourages me so much. When she speaks to me over phone, she always tells me that I only show her pictures of what I do and I never give her anything to taste. So I…
The best part of being a food blogger is to be in active food groups. The group which has influenced me the most is the Blogging Marathon group started by Srivalli. When I first started taking part in Blogging Marathon, it was just like in any group. We had to…