For the third day of Blogging Marathon #30, under the theme tea kadai menu, I selected ragi cookies / kelvaragu biscuits. I have seen and tasted ragi cookies but had no idea what ingredients go into it. So I used my wheat cookies recipe and substituted half the wheat flour…
When Swathi announced the challenge for this month’s Baking Partners, I was thinking of skipping it. The two cakes she gave are based completely on eggs. The chiffon cake and The Russian Honey Cake are the cakes suggested by members. Saraswathi of Sara’s Kitchen has suggested this chiffon cake which…
For the third month in Home Baker’s challenge, Viji of Virunthu Unna Vaanga set the challenge for cookies. She provided us with 4 recipes and we are free to choose any recipe we want. I selected the peanut butter cookies as I have never tried it before. The original recipe asked…
For this month’s Baking Partner’s challenge Swathi has given two recipes using choux pastry- one is the chocolate eclairs and the other is French Laundry’s Gourgeres. Chocolate eclairs is the sweet version whereas the gourgeres are the savory version. You can see a lot of recipes converted into eggless ones…
Home Bakers is a group started by Priya Suresh of Priya’s Versatile Recipes. A group of bloggers have come together in this group and we will be attempting a dish per month. I joined in the last month itself but the pizza I prepared for the challenge was a disaster.…
This month, I have been staying inactive as my blogging is concerned. Sruti is on her vacation and I have been travelling on and off. When at home, it is really very tough to concentrate on the blog. So this month I am only posting the recipes for the challenges…
Savarin is an yeasted cake which uses a very rich dough which constitutes of eggs and butter. This month’s Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Natalia of Gatti Fili e Farina and she challenged the daring bakers to bake Savarin. The dough is the same used for Rum Baba which is…
For this month’s Baking Eggless Challenge Priya of Enveetu Kitchen suggested Amazing Dinner Rolls from cooking classy. Even for the Baking Partners challenge we baked bread this month. So this month my house is full of freshly baked bread’s aroma and it is wonderful. I have made some dinner rolls…
Baking Partner’s challenge this month was all about bread baking. Swathi suggested two methods for getting super soft home made bread. One is the Asian Tangzhong method and the other is the Scandinavian Scalded Flour method. I already made a White bread using Tangzhong method and got great result. So…
Snickerdoodles are cookies made with flour, butter and sugar and the cookie dough is rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking. I came across the recipe for chai chocolate snickerdoodle in Boston Tea Company’s website when I was searching for a cookie recipe including tea. Baking with tea is a new…