For the third day of the final week of Blogging Marathon#20 I decided to make use of the fluted tube pan I bought from Chennai. Though I have posted many cake recipes, I haven’t yet posted the marble cake. So I tried it out today. The cake was not so…
For this month’s Baking Partners Challenge Swathi gave three cookie recipes chosen by the members of the group. We are free to try out any recipe within the three. Tina of http://www.pinaycookingcorner.com selected Ultimate Chocolate and Cream Cheese Cookies from Food & Wine Best of the Best Cookbook Recipes Vol. 14. The cookie recipe…
I have used cocoa powder to make cookies but this is the first time I am using melted chocolate in my cookie recipe. Though the colour is a bit light, the cookie was very nice with chocolate flavour. It also has chocolate chips in them. I saw this recipe in…
If you are a regular visitor of my blog, you would have noticed that I have not posted any recipes last week. I missed my group challenges and reveal dates. The reason is my daughter was down with fever and I was totally depressed without knowing the reason for this…
Lamingtons are sponge cakes dipped in chocolate icing and covered with coconut. The origin of this cake is Australia but it is also found in South African cafes. For this month’s Baking Eggless Group challenge, I chose Lamingtons from David Lebovitz’s blog. Mostly two layers of square cake pieces are…
This month’s Daring Baker’s Challenge was Going Batty For The Jubilee. Mandy of What The Fruit Cake challenged the bakers to make a battenberg cake. Battenberg cake is traditionally flavoured with almonds and the four squares – two pink and two yellow represent the four princes of Battenberg. The strips are…
For this month’s Baking Eggless Group challenge I chose Chocolate Cornets recipe from an youtube video. This consists of a bread cone with chocolate custard filling. Both recipes contained eggs and the group tried baking it eggless. I will be posting a round up of the members recipes on…
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…
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…