Last month I started a group to try out our hand in eggless baking. The group known as Baking Eggless deals with recipes using eggs. We try to convert the recipe with eggs to an eggless one. This is all about experimenting. Any one who is adventurous can join the…
For this month’s Daring Bakers Challenge, Lis of La Mia Cucina, asked us to go creative with our baking skills. She wanted us to create quick breads. I have posted a recipe for Eggless Pumpkin and honey bread. Quick breads are breads which doesn’t need kneading or rising. The leavening…
Today is the final day of the Blogging Marathon and I wanted to end it with my daughter’s favourite cake. Yes, the chocolate cake! I bought a silicon daisy mould two months back but never baked anything in it. Today I tried it and wow, it is very nice. No…
I was planning to do checker board cookies for a long time. When I saw the cookies at Baking Obsession, I couldn’t take my eyes away. I bookmarked it immediately and tried it out today. The preparation of the dough took me two days in advance. So I started preparing…
Do you remember my French Country Bread? It was done with sourdough starter. There was 2 cups of starter remaining after the bake. I used it to make these rolls which my daughter liked very much. This has been lying in drafts for a long time. At last I am…
Sruti celebrated her birthday on Feb 5th. For the past 2-3months, she is giving me ideas of cakes I have to prepare for her birthday. The cake which always stays in the list is the barbie cake. I have done this cake for her 3rd birthday. So I set on…
For this month’s Baring Baker’s Challenge, Audax of Audax Artifex has taken us back to basics of making scones or baking powder biscuits. He has provided with so many recipes to try from. I made a version of my own adding cheese and apricot. These biscuits are sweet and very soft…
It is very economical to use home made butter. It is also a satisfying experience. This butter can be used to prepare ghee, in cakes and other sweets. I don’t use this butter in making puff pastry. The home made butter usually has a large quantity of water when compared…
This burfi is a result of an experiment. I saw a recipe for home made chocolates in a magazine recently. But when I was preparing, there was something wrong with the recipe. I have gone through the recipe many times before attempting. But there was a shortage of liquid in…
For this month’s Sweet Punch, the team selected Banoffee Pie from Swapna’s Cuisine. As it was new to me I did a search and found out some interesting posts. Banoffee pie is a British Pastry based on bananas, cream and toffee, which needs no baking ( But I baked the…