Here is a copy of a free eBook on Chocolate Ganache Lately I have been concentrating more about baking and baking related posts rather than my day to day cooking. The main reason is that my readers are more interested in my baking posts and my other posts get hardly…
If you are wondering what happened to my flax gel egg substitute and caramel syrup, then here is the result. A few days back I came across the gel made with flax seeds which can be used as egg substitute in recipes. As I am always interested in experimenting with…
When I reposted my Christmas Plum Cake recipe, my inbox was full of requests for the recipe for caramel syrup. Though I have given the procedure in the post, I made a separate video to show you the exact stages of the syrup. If you love caramel based cakes, then…
It has bee a long time since I posted something other than baking. Usual cooking has been going on in my house but I am some what distracted and so haven’t clicked any dish. This upma has been lying in my folder for a very long time and today, it…
During the month of Kaarthigai comes Kaarthigai Deepam. On that day we light earthern lamps all over the house and do special poojas. Mom used to make a great feast with sambar, rasam, 21 varieties of side dishes, payasam and offered them along with fruits for Lord Murugan. I have…
Last time while I was discussing about egg replacers I use, I wrote about flax seeds. Flax seeds or flax meal is used in recipes to replace eggs. The main draw back of using flax seeds is that the flavour of flax seeds dominate the taste and there will be…
From the day I saw a tuxedo cake, I was tempted to try it out. A tuxedo cake is a layered chocolate cake frosted with whipped cream frosting and adorned with a dark chocolate glaze. The beauty of the glaze falling on the sides of the white whippe cream background…
This is my fourth in the series of Baking Basics. I hope you are finding useful of all the Baking Basics posts. In the last post I was talking about the substitutes of various ingredients used in baking. And I left out eggs in the post. The reason is very…
After knowing about your oven and the basic tools you need for baking, you need to know about the substitutes for the ingredients. This will be so helpful if you live in a city (like Madurai where I live) that doesn’t have all the imported ingredients which we usually get…
If you are a regular reader, you must be familiar with the Recipe Request page I have started a few months back. I thought that if I can fulfill some of my reader’s wishes for recipes, I would be really happy. I have been getting so many requests and some…