While making 3D cakes, you get a lot of cake crumbs and pieces. While I prepared the Pongal Pot Cake, there was a lot of cake and butter cream left over after the completion of the cake. The next day holidays started and I couldn’t do any thing with it.…
While preparing chocolate based sweets, it is very important to melt the cooking chocolate before you start preparing the sweet. Cooking chocolate is available in thew form of bars. So first chop[ it up with a sharp knife on a chopping board. Chocolate should not be kept directly on flame…
Pathir Peni also known as Chirotti or Peni is a crispy sweet made of rava or maida. I have posted a recipe- Chirotti using maida and sugar syrup. When Srivalli announced the ICC for this month, I wanted to try out the rava version. Harini shared the recipe with Srivalli…
Ginger has a lot of medicinal properties. I usually prepare this chaaru when suffering from severe cold. The addition of honey compensates the hot taste of ginger. While drinking this, you will get pricking sensations in your mouth. It is very fierce. But after a while you will feel very…
Wishing all my readers a very Happy Pongal This is the pongal pot cake I prepared yesterday for a competition. Every part of the cake is edible. The cake is a layered cake with eggless vanilla and chocolate cakes. I also used a muffin pan for the smaller vanilla cakes.…
I usually prepare gravy using bottle gourd. But hubby started to dislike it . So nowadays I don’t buy bottle gourd. The chef in me wanted to disguise it in a dish and wanted to make my hubby relish it. Yesterday I bought a bottle gourd without hubby’s knowledge and…
I saw this method of preparing spinach/ palak in a old Woman’s Era. The idea of frying spinach was quite interesting and I tried it yesterday. The swirls of spinach looked beautiful and I used some for garnish. The crumbs had a lot of oil but when used in the…
I have heard about this but never tried it until today. I saw the recipe at Kaveri’s Palakkad Chamayal when I was browsing through her blog for the Blog Hop Wednesday. I was paired with Kaveri for the event and I chose this recipe to try out. Pitlai is a…
I saw this preparation in many blogs around the blogosphere. Having peas at home is very handy. It is also economical when you prepare it at home. I usually prepare this when the cost of peas is low and it helps when the cost rockets up. It is a very…
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…