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…
Last week has been a disastrous week for me. After I got a recipe request for the eggless pineapple cake, I bought a pineapple home. When I first tried a recipe for the cake, it ended as being fudgy and gluey. So I had to discard the cake. Unfortunately, I ended…
Here is an important need to know basics when you come to cakes. Hope this helps you.. When it comes to baking cakes, the important step to remove the cake out of the pan is greasing it properly. There are so many ways you can grease a cake pan. I…
I have been going through Bloggers’ block. So what is a bloggers’ block? Any of you have any idea? I am trying to write a post from last week but am not finding any words for that. It has been more than a week since I posted on my blog…
We come to the second part of the series. This is a post which could be useful for beginners. Pros can stay away from this. After looking into the OTG, we are now here to know about some of the tools you may need to bake basic cakes and cookies.…
Paneer is one of my favourite ingredients and I prepare a dish with paneer atleast twice in a week. I don’t usually make cubed paneer but store it as crumbled paneer. This comes very handy while making rotis or side dishes. Though hubby is not a great fan of paneer, he likes…