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…
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…
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…
Making cookies for sandwich theme was in my mind for long but due to other distractions I postponed it to the last day of Blogging Marathon #26 Week2. I adapted a recipe from Good House Keeping magazine and used nutella for the sandwiching. As cookies came out of oven and…
For the third day of Blogging Marathon #25, the alphabet is I and I selected Iced cookies. Sugar glaze icing is a substitute for royal icing in decoration of cookies. This is very easy to prepare and there are lots and lots of designs to decorate a cookie. Though I…
Rice Bran oil is also known as rice bran extract is extractedfrom the inner husk and germ of rice. It is notable for its high smoke point which is at 213C. So it is suitable for stir frying and deep frying and as Indian cooking uses both types of cooking…
For the third day of Blogging Marathon for which I am baking with whole grains, I decided to use rice flour. Rice flour is gluten free and it is tough to bind it together to bake a cookie. This Persian cookie uses egg yolks for binding. As I was changing…
For the second day of Blogging Marathon, to bake with whole grains, I selected oats. When going through the web, I saw this recipe at serious eats. As I also had a bottle full of jam, I decided to bake this. The original recipe had eggs and I substituted it…
If you watched Master Chef Australia 2012, you might be knowing Julie’s famous melting moments. The judges were are praising that particular cookie so much that I searched for the recipe at the master chef web site. And I got it finally. And I adapted that recipe according to my…