When you are doing stacked cakes or carved cakes, the cake needs to be firm enough to withstand thje pressure and should not crumble while you carve it with a knife. For making this type of cakes you always need to go for a butter based recipe. Oil based cakes…
I love baking and what I love the most is the experimenting part. I prepare a recipe any number of times but once I get it right I never try it again. Because experimenting is what excites me. As I love eggless baking a lot, there are so may experiments…
Ever since I heard about the chick pea brine used as an alternative to egg whites, I have been obsessed. I have loads and loads of boiled chickpeas in my fridge and freezer and have no idea how to use them up. But the water drained out of those chickpeas…
As you know, I am part of Let’s Do It with Fondbites for the past three months. I joined the group to tune my cake decorating skills. Though friends and family members are excited about my cakes, I am not at all satisfied with the results. I want to make…
I am super excited. In the past five years of serious baking, I have substituted eggs in so many recipes and have got good results but I never ever dared to try one recipe. That is meringue. There was no suitable substitute whipped egg whites and I really felt very…
Cakes – The mere word itself will bring a lot of brightness in kids and adults. Once I used to be like that. I used to be super excited if some one talked about making cakes and if I pass a bakery, I used to love that heavenly smell and…
Clafoutis is a French dessert or breakfast dish made with cherries and flan like batter baked together. This is a dish which is based on eggs. The eggy batter when baked becomes a nice firm clafoutis and it is really tough to replicate it with out eggs. So I chose…
Weather is so gloomy for the past two weeks and it is really tiring even thinking about cooking. Still I do regular cooking which is very simple and mostly oil free. I have been told by my doctor to stay away from oil, sugar, tomatoes, tamarind and salt. So mostly…
Who doesn’t love puff pastry. Those who get the ready made puff pastry sheets can whip up easy snacks in minutes but those who don’t get it surely need to make it at home. Home made sheets are so much better (or the best) when compared to commercially available ones.…
This post is long overdue. I made this during February and submitted it to a contest on Street food photos at Vaishali’s Ribbon’s to Pasta’s blog and to my great surprise I won the prize!!! Vaishali called me and asked me to choose my prize but I just left it…