Any appetizer needs a dipping sauce to give a punch. When I made the Congyou Bing/ Chinese Scallion Pancakes, I also made this soy dipping sauce to go with it. This sauce is absolutely delicious and tastes tangy, sweet and slightly salty with the ginger, garlic and green onion…
CongYou Bing – Chinese Scallion Pancake Recipe
Here we are on the third day of International breakfast themes and today I like to take you to China. When I read the recipe for scallion pancake, I found that it was not what we call as pancakes. For us pancakes are made with smooth batters and are poured…
How To Create Wood Carving Effect On Cake with Fondant
Nowadays, I have stopped taking orders and classes and have been concentrating on more interesting works. For the past four months I have been part of an wonderful group Let’s Do It With Fondbites, brain child of Subhashini and we create one cake a month according to the theme…
Homemade Aquafaba / Chickpea Brine – The Best Egg White Substitute
I love baking and what I love the most is the experimenting part. I prepare a recipe any number of times but once I get it right I never try it again. Because experimenting is what excites me. As I love eggless baking a lot, there are so may experiments…
How To Make a Fairy Pot Cake / Fairy Pot Cake Tutorial
As you know, I am part of Let’s Do It with Fondbites for the past three months. I joined the group to tune my cake decorating skills. Though friends and family members are excited about my cakes, I am not at all satisfied with the results. I want to make…
Baking Basics – Baking and Trouble shooting Cakes
Cakes – The mere word itself will bring a lot of brightness in kids and adults. Once I used to be like that. I used to be super excited if some one talked about making cakes and if I pass a bakery, I used to love that heavenly smell and…
Home Made Puff Pastry – Baking Basics
Who doesn’t love puff pastry. Those who get the ready made puff pastry sheets can whip up easy snacks in minutes but those who don’t get it surely need to make it at home. Home made sheets are so much better (or the best) when compared to commercially available ones.…
How to make 2D Cut Outs for Cakes
When I became part of Lets Do It With Fondbites team last month, I didn’t know how much I am going to learn from that awesome group. In two months I have learnt a lot about cake decorating which I hadn’t learnt in the past three years. The group is…
How to clean Piping Nozzles/ Tips
After nearly a gap of one long month, I am here with another post in the Baking Basics Series. If you are new in the world of decorating cakes, then this post might be very useful to you. When I started cake decorating, I had this huge problem of washing…
Fire Up Your Oven – Round Up
Last month was a fun filled month as usual when a group of bloggers came together to post for the whole month on a particular theme. Brain child of Srivalli,l this mega marathon has been etched in our lives. Every year during the months of April and September we become…