Cream cheese forms the base for many desserts such as cheese cakes and cake frostings. But I couldn’t get it here in Madurai. Once I saw the box of cream cheese at Nilgiris in Coimbatore, I was shocked at the price. So I was going through the web for a…
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I have used cocoa powder to make cookies but this is the first time I am using melted chocolate in my cookie recipe. Though the colour is a bit light, the cookie was very nice with chocolate flavour. It also has chocolate chips in them. I saw this recipe in…
Eggless Lemon Coconut Bread
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If you are a regular visitor of my blog, you would have noticed that I have not posted any recipes last week. I missed my group challenges and reveal dates. The reason is my daughter was down with fever and I was totally depressed without knowing the reason for this…
Dates Cookies
I bought a new book about cookies. It is a tamil book and there were lots and lots of recipes for cookies. I had a box of dates to be used and so I tried out this recipe which uses dates. The cookies were crispy and crunchy and delicious with…
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