From my childhood days, I have been a great fan of puffs. The flaky crispy pastry with a savoury filling always makes my mouth water. When I was in college, we bought a small oven. We also had a book which covered all the basic baking recipes including the Indian…
I have done some Barbie doll cakes, both for my daughter and for clients. At first, the gown of the doll would not be proportionate, but after some practice, I have come up with certain measurements of cakes, which gives a nice perfectly shaped skirt for the doll. The trick…
After a long gap, I am here with another Cooking Basics post. I love to make variety of puttu and instead of buying puttu flour, I make it at home. It is the only way you can get perfectly delicious puttu. My mum used to make all types of flour…
Pasta is a staple Italian dish made using unleavened dough. There are two types of pastas – Fresh and Dry. There are so many varieties available in the market but making pasta from scratch can be an interesting task. Usually home made pasta dough uses eggs but as I always…
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.…
Mascarpone cheese is hard to get in Indian stores and even if you get the cost is sky high. When I prepared Italian dessert Tiramisu for one of the challenges, I made the cheese at home after seeing an online post at baking Obsession. Mascarpone cheese is made by curdling fresh…
Whenever I see someone using a vanilla bean, I imagine myself doing so but it just remained in my imagination until I saw a pack of vanilla beans at Nilgiris in Coimbatore. I had only three and was priced at 135 INR. It was so costly but I bought it…
Amond paste is an important ingredient in many pastries. This can be used to make cakes, cookies, and used as fillings in tarts, pies and many pastries. It can be readily available in markets but in Madurai, we don’t get it. I needed almond paste to make the German Tree…
Ricotta is an Italian cheese used in a lot of Italian pastries and desserts. Recently I made a Italian Pastry – Sfogliatelle Ricci and Sfogliatelle Frolle for which I needed ricotta for filling. To make ricotta at home you need milk and curd. IT is a very simple process, and…
Sattu flour is an important ingredient in Bihari cuisine. There are so many dishes which use sattu and it is made out of sand roasted channa dhal. Sattu paratha, litti, sattu kachori, are some of the dishes made using sattu. I made it at home according to Nupur’s directions and…