For this month’s Baking Partner’s challenge, Divya Ashok of DD’s Bake shop suggested we try strawberry cake. Divya decorates cakes and you need to visit her site to look at her beautiful creations. For this challenge, we need to make the cake and do some basic decorations. As we don’t get strawberry at this time, […]
For this month’s Baking Partner’s Challenge, Reeni of Cinnamon Spice and Everything Nice selected a dessert with berries. The shorcake unlike the butter loaded ones is made with heavy cream. It was quite easy to make. The secret of getting a flaky short cake is the dough needs to be crumbly and not soft. You just need […]
Scones are a type of quick breads which originated in Scotland. Baking soda is the leavening agent used. It can also be called as a pastry as it is somewhat similar to pastry in preparation. Cold butter is rubbed into the flour and buttermilk is used to bring together the dough. Scones are served […]
Babka is an easter speciality made in Eastern Europe. The Jewish version of babka is usually baked in a laof pan with twisted dough filled with cinnamon or chocolate. The yeasted cake is topped with streusel, a crunchy topping made of flour, butter and sugar. This month’s Baking Partner Challenge recipes were suggested by Tamy. […]
Koffiebroodjes are sweet pastry rolls with a pudding filling and a jam glaze. These are famous dutch pastries which the Dutch love having with their coffee. So they are also called as coffee buns. There are so many variations of koffiebroodjes. One has a pecan filling and sugar glaze, one had jam filling and sugar […]
Yule log is long and hard log burned during traditional Christmas and Yule celebrations. This cake is related to the log and is made for Christmas. It is called as Buche De Noel and the recipe has a lots of eggs to get the perfect sponge. This was suggested by Tanushree of Ma Niche along with […]
For this month’s Baking Partners challenge, Marisa of Thermofan suggested this very traditional bread from Spain. I will give you a short introduction to this bread. This is a traditional bread of the city Valencia in Spain. The origin dates back to seventeenth century. The inhabitants of Valencia’s Orchard used to bake this bread in […]
As I told you before, the blogs are full of pumpkin recipes for the Halloween. And in Baking Partners group challenges, it is a pumpkin recipe this month. Swathi had given two pumpin recipes as per Tamy’s suggestions, one is this quick bread and the other an yeasted bread. As I wanted a quick recipe […]
Have you heard about Cronuts/ Kronuts??? OK, I am hearing it for the first time and all my American friends out there will surely be knowing about this. This is both Croissants and Donuts combined together. Croissants + Donuts = Cronuts. How is this??? When Swati announced this for the Baking Partners Challenges this month, I […]
For the Baking Partners Group Challenge, Swathi shared with us four cookies recipes from around the world. The Chinese Almond Cookies were suggested by Suja of Kitchen Corner Try It. As usual I made it into an eggless recipe and it turned out wonderful. Though it didn’t seem like the original cookies, they were so […]