It is nearly a week since I posted in the blog. Last week was kind of hectic with Sruti falling ill. She recovered and I got ill. I am not in a bad shape today and suddenly I remembered the Daring Bakers Challenge. First I thought of skipping it but…
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…
This month’s Baking Partners was all about bread baking. Swathi suggested two methods to make soft bread. The first method is the asian method called tangzhong. Tangzhong is a method of bread making which originated in Japan and Chinese use it a lot in their bread making now. It…
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…
Last week I reviewed Fortune Rice Bran oil and made crackers as part of the post. As it turned out nice with out the hint of rice bran oil’s flavour, I wanted to try out more bakes with it. Last time when I made chocolate cake, my daughter was very…
This month’s Baking Eggless is very special as we completed a year of challenges. This is the thirteenth challenge and my heartfelt thanks to all those who are being a part of this wonderful group. So this is celebration time and the recipe chosen is apt for the occasion. Perfectly…
For this month’s Daring Baker’s Challenge Sarah of All Our Fingers In The Pie challenged the Daring Bakers to make Crisps. She provided some recipes for us to try and I chose these crackers with onions and poppy seeds. I also made the eggless version of the recipe. The crackers were…
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…