Yesterday, April 8th was National Empanada day. Pronounced as ehm/pah/nah/thahs, these sweet or savury snack consists of a flaky outer covering with a sweet or savoury filling. It is either baked or fried and are very famous in Spain, Latin American countries and the Caribbean. The word comes from the Spanish Verb Empanar which means […]
Last week has been a disastrous week for me. After I got a recipe request for the eggless pineapple cake, I bought a pineapple home. When I first tried a recipe for the cake, it ended as being fudgy and gluey. So I had to discard the cake. Unfortunately, I ended up using all the pineapple […]
Scones are a type of quick breads which originated in Scotland. Baking soda is the leavening agent used. It can also be called as a pastry as it is somewhat similar to pastry in preparation. Cold butter is rubbed into the flour and buttermilk is used to bring together the dough. Scones are served […]
For Home Baker’s Challenge this month, Rafeeda of The Big Sweet Tooth, the host selected some beautiful Arabian bakes. One of the recipes she chose was the Spinach Fatayer/ Fateyer Sabanekh. Fateyar is a triangular pastry often filled with meat or cheese or spinach. When I was browsing through recipes, I also saw that they […]
Koffiebroodjes are sweet pastry rolls with a pudding filling and a jam glaze. These are famous dutch pastries which the Dutch love having with their coffee. So they are also called as coffee buns. There are so many variations of koffiebroodjes. One has a pecan filling and sugar glaze, one had jam filling and sugar […]
The next month of Daring Bakers reveal date has arrived and I am feeling so lazy to draft a post. But as I finished the challenge two weeks before and the snaps are all ready, I had to do it. This month’s challenge is a traditional dutch pastry hosted by Francijn of Koken In De […]
This month’s Daring Bakers Challenge is hosted by Suz of Serenely Full. She challenged the members of the group to make the famous French Dessert Mille Feuille. It consists of crispy puff pastry (Pâte feuilletée) layers and a soft vanilla pastry cream (Crème Pâtissière) between the layers. It is finished with royal icing and chocolate decorations. As […]
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 baking the nazooks, there was […]
I had three home made puff pastry squares for a long time. I couldn’t decide on what to do with it. I wanted to prepare some thing different. Suddenly I came up with this great idea. It was so yummy. The crispy puffs with soft syrupy interiors was very nice. Hubby and daughter liked it […]
This is the first month I am participating in The Daring Baker’s Challenge. I was really thrilled. At the daring bakers Simona of Briciole challenged us with Pasta Frolla and Crostata. This was a very new recipe and I have never prepared pies or tarts. This was the first time I am trying a pie […]