I am not a very nutritious baker. I always bake with loads and loads of butter and sugar. So Gayathri’s Cook Spot has always been a diet free zone but when I heard of a baking competition with a theme nutritious bakes, I wanted to try. When I went through…
When I made the no bake mango cheesecake I didn’t know that there is a baked cheese cake recipe. But after I got so many messages and mails from readers, I went through some recipes for the baked cheese cakes. As expected they were full of eggs and I didn’t…
Do you love chocolates and bananas? Then this one is for you. When I was searching for chocolate based recipes, this recipe from Smitten Kitchen caught my eye. It was so good to look at and I decided to do it immediately. Mine is not as good to look as…
For this month’s Home Bakers Challenge, Priya suggested scones. She gave us four recipes to choose from I chose to make these simple scones. The original recipe had raisins but I opted for dries cranberries. Scone is a single serving cake or quick bread. Unlike tea cakes and sweet buns…
Yesterday, April 8th was National Empanada day. Pronounced as ehm/pah/nah/thahs, these sweet or savury snack consists of a flaky outer covering with a sweet or savoury filling. It is either baked or fried and are very famous in Spain, Latin American countries and the Caribbean. The word comes from the…
When I first made Creme Brulee as part of Baking Eggless Challenge, I wanted to try creme caramel also one day. And for this month, I selected it. Creme caramel is a pudding completely based on eggs. It is quite the opposite of creme brulee. In creme brulee, the custard…
I have been part of many baking groups and I was posting all the challenge recipes up to date but when there were some problems, I just stopped concentrating on my blog. If you see there would be so many months I would have posted only 2 or 3 recipes…
When I made black forest cake, I was left with half a batch of tinned cherries. I refrigerated them along with the syrup in my fridge and was planning on making a cake with them. This baking marathon was the perfect opportunity to bake a loaf with cherries. When you…
After two days of sweet dishes, we now explore some spicy bakes. Though everyone participating in this Baking marathon is doing sub themes, some how I didn’t try to choose any theme. I didn’t even try to organize my posts and drafts. My drafts folder is like a puzzle box…
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