According to me, my mom makes the best pani puris. She manages to do every thing from scratch and there were a lot of fans among my brother’s friends. She used to make puris to fill big jars and they will be completely finished on a single day. Nowadays, as…
Cheese and Apricot Biscuits/ Scones
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…
French Country Bread With Sourdough Starter
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…
Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookies
Today I am back in my home. Yesterday I bought chocolate chips in a store in Coimbatore. Today I made these wonderful cookies which are crunchy and soft at the same time. When I read about these cookies, usually the author describes it as crunchy and chewy. I never understood…
Eggless Thumb Print Cookies
Thumb print cookies get its name from the indent made with thumb in the centre of the cookies. The indent is then filled with jam and baked. But nowadays, a blunt end of an object is used to make the indent. I used the back side of a pen to…
Eggless Bake Well Tarts
I saw the recipe for bake well tarts in a cook book which came along with the oven my mom bought long time ago. It has a short crust pastry base, a layer of jam and the tart is filled with a sponge called as frangipane. The frangipane has almonds…
Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake
Wishing You All A Very Happy Christmas There are so many recipes for Christmas fruit cake in the blogosphere. But I was searching for an eggless cake and I came across the recipe at Divine Taste. The recipe was quite interesting because Anushruti had added boiled potato in the cake.…
Pumpkin Scones
I prepared pumpkin puree last week. So I just wanted to bake something using it. I always love the colour of bakes using pumpkin. I saw this recipe at joy of baking. I was immediately drawn towards the colour and texture of the scone. It was eggless too. The scone…
Mexican Wedding Cake/ Russian Tea Cake
These cookies are called by different names. Italian Butternut, Southern Butter Ball, Snow Drop, Viennese Sugar Ball and Snow Ball are some of its names. I bookmarked this recipe from Joy Of Baking.com . These are best for festive occasions. As Christmas and New Year are near, I will be posting…
Sattu Kachori
For today’s evening snack I prepared the famous Sattu Kachori of Bihar. I had sattu at home from the previous preparation. So preparing the kachori was an easy job. I made 18 kachoris from the given recipe and it took only 30minutes to prepare. I saw this recipe at US…