After baking two cookies, I wanted the third cookie to be a chocolate one. At first I thought of baking choco chip cookie with egg, but then I remembered Srivalli’s Chocolate Nankhatai. When I first read that post, I wanted to bake a batch immediately, but somehow I couldn’t do. Once I remembered the post, […]
Ever since I visited Nimrah Bakery in Hyderabad, I have been tempted to try the biscuits I tasted there. I will elaborate on my visit next week, but let me tell you the inspiration behind these cookies today. Hyderabad is very famous for cookies and I have heard a lot about them, but recently I […]
For the third day of Bring some Brownies, I have a gooey fudgy absolutely yum condensed milk brownie. At the beginning years of my blogging, I saw these gooey brownies, filled with condensed milk. I thought of making it at that time, but then forgot about it completely. When I was listing out the types […]
With mango season at its peak, we are devouring mangoes like crazy. My daughter is the most ardent fan of mangoes and she is enjoying this season. We too love mangoes, but after starting with the diet two years back, we both stayed away from mangoes last year and before last year. But this year […]
I love Master Chef Australia. I have been watching the show for years and it has taught me so much about cooking. So many techniques, I watched on MCA for the first time. Though I love experimenting in kitchen, I have never once tried to recreate those recipes. When Valli announced it as a theme […]
Selecting the candy theme was to help me overcome my fear of candies. I love to work with sugar but when it comes to syrup consistency, I am always at loss. Though I have been successful with some recipes, I still have the fear of the correct consistency. That is why I always use a […]
Today for the Bread Baker’s challenge, I am proud to present you a very unusual recipe of Lemon cake with yeast. I didn’t know that yeast can be used as a leavening agent in cakes until Archana chose the theme for this month’s Bread Baker’s challenge. Only after seeing her announcement, I searched for yeast […]
For the third day, I have chosen Bangladesh as the country starting with B. I had another bread lined up for today but Sruti was down with fever and I didn’t have the mind to bake bread when she was eating rasam rice. So I just skipped to the halwa recipe today. When I was […]
When I chose to make recipes with seasonal fruits, I decided to use papaya as one of the fruit. I didn’t want to make a smoothie or a juice with papaya, or a salad. So I was searching for some unique recipes and landed on a papaya lemon curd recipe. This was a twist to […]
For the second day of baked treats, let us go to Holland. Also known as Banketstaven / Letterbanket, these Dutch letters were introduced in the US by Dutch immigrants, originated at Pella, Iowa. MAde with a flaky pastry or puff pastry, filled with a sweet almond paste or marzipan, these are pastries or cookies shaped […]
