Every year we do a mega marathon during April and I enthusiastically signed up for it. It was my most favourite theme, A-Z bakes around the world. I had my list ready before 6 months, and started baking before three months and was done with nearly 13 dishes. But everything doesn’t happen as you plan. […]
After so many days, I am back with a baking post. I have stopped baking for the past two months and when the electricity bill came yesterday, I was shocked. The bill was nearly 2/3rd of the previous bill. Now I know why my Electricity bills were so high. This pie has been in […]
Whoopie Pies are cross between a cake and cookie. With two cookie like cake slices with a sweet creamy filling, whoopie pie also tastes like cupcakes but they are easy to pack and carry. These are also known as Black moon, Bob, Gob or BFO (Big Fat Oreo). There are so many variations of the […]
Today I am starting the second week of Blogging Marathon #31. I will be posting under Mexican Cuisine for the three days. To start with I made this Tortilla and Bean pie yesterday. Tortillas are flat breads made out of wheat flour and has an important role in Mexican Cuisine. They are used to make […]
For this month’s Baking Eggless Group Challenge, according to the wishes of the members, I selected a savoury recipe. I selected a recipe for meat pies from Saveur. These meat pies have a flaky crust made with flour and shortening and has a meat filling. Our challenge is to substitute the eggs in the pastry […]
For this month’s Daring Baker challenge, the host- Rachel of Pizzarossa chose Life of Pie as the challenge. She gave us four recipes to choose from. One among those is the crack pie, which I have never heard before. But the recipe was nice and I wanted to try it. As Sruti is the target, […]
When Swathi asked me for a suggestion for this month’s Baking Partner’s challenge, the first dish that came to my mind was Apple Pie. For so many days I have been planning to make this pie but keep on postponing it due to laziness. But when a recipe is given for a challenge, I usually […]
If you have started baking recently, you will be having so many doubts about trivial things. But clearing those doubts is most important in getting the perfect results in baking. That is what I am trying to write in all my Baking Basics posts. Today we will see about lining a pie dish with the […]
For this month’s Baking Eggless group challenge, I chose a savoury bake. Every month we tried out sweet bakes and the members asked for savoury bakes for a change. So I selected a recipe for quiche from Martha Stewart’s web site. Quiche is a savoury pie usually filled with a mixture of cream, eggs and cheese. […]
For this month’s Sweet Punch, the team selected Banoffee Pie from Swapna’s Cuisine. As it was new to me I did a search and found out some interesting posts. Banoffee pie is a British Pastry based on bananas, cream and toffee, which needs no baking ( But I baked the biscuit base for 10 minutes). […]