This is the second challenge given by Jason to the daring bakers. It is the Armenian Nazook/ Nazouk/ Nazuk. It is a yeasted, layer pastry filled with a sweet filling. The outer dough is made of an yeasted dough and the filling has sugar, butter and flour in it. While…
I am really happy to be back and I would like to thank all my readers who were enjoying my recipes during my absence. The last 15days were hectic with house shifting and traveling. I am at my mom’s place now and I prepared these cute and crunchy rolls…
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…
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…
Jessica of My Recipe Project challenged the Daring Bakers to prepare a bread with homemade starter. She gave some recipes for the starter and breads and I chose to do the french country bread. The starter was ready in four days and I prepared the bread on the fourth day. My…
For this month’s DB challenge Catherine Enfield of Munchie Musings introduced us to two Filipino desserts. Sans Rival which means without rival and a rice cake named Bibingka. As sans rival is completely based on eggs, I decided to do an eggless version of bibingka. Catherine’s recipe asked for glutinous…
For this month, Jenni of The Gingered Whisk challenged the daring bakers to prepare Povitica. This is a sweet bread with a walnut filling. Pronounced as po-va-teet-sa, this is a dessert bread of Eastern Europe, served during the holiday season. It is also known as Nutroll, Potica, Kalachi and Strudia.…
For this month, Sarah, a non blogger, challenged the bakers to prepare French Croissants. She shared her recipe for a perfect croissant. I also watched Julia Child’s video on croissants. Though I have prepared it and posted it before, I was not satisfied with the laminated dough. So this tme…
Jana of Cherry Tea Cakes challenged the Daring Bakers to prepare French Fraisier. Fraisier consists of a sponge cake split into two, moistened with simple syrup, filled with strawberry and pastry cream and covered with almond paste and is decorated with strawberries. In Madurai, I can never expect to get…
Erica of Erica’s Edibles challenged the Daring Bakers to prepare Phyllo Sheets from scratch and prepare the famous Baklava. I have always wanted to prepare baklava, but as we don’t get phyllo sheets here, I skipped it. But when I came to know that phyllo sheets can be made at home,…