Last week’s bakes left me with quite a few chocolate cake trimmings. Was wondering what to do with them and then thought why not cake pops? Had the whole thing worked out in my mind and this morning when I opened the fridge to remove the trimmings, saw that the box was half empty. Could …
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Apr 09
Eggless chocolate cake with candied orange peel
A long pending promise to my friends daughter Saima finally saw the results today. My first attempt to teach baking to someone, actually resulted in some hiccups but my student passed with flying colours. The ganache was either to runny or too stiff and the piping was giving us lots of trouble. But we did …
Apr 09
Ferrero Rocher Cake
Am so glad I finally can bake a cake. It’s a different feeling all together when u bake a cake yourself for friends and family It’s my bestie, chuddy buddy, darlings birthday and she wanted a chocolate cake. I was sure i didn’t want a simple chocolate cake so decided to make a Ferrero Rocher …
Apr 04
Brown butter chocochip cookies with sea salt and Nutella
My secret obsession with Nutella is now out in the public. I keep thinking how can I incorporate it in all my desserts. A while ago I had seen a pic of this cookie and it just would creep up in my dreams and cravings. I couldn’t wait to make it. After searching for a …
Mar 21
Mom’s birthday cakes (chocolate rum and banana walnut)
This year, we sisters decided to throw a surprise birthday party for Mom. Its her birthday tomorrow and we are having a surprise party at her place tonight. All the secret arrangements have been made and we have arranged for mom to go on a coffee date while her minions set up everything at home. …
Mar 11
Date Rolls
My son had this big event at school. They were celebrating the festivals of India and his class had been assigned the festival of Eid. I made date rolls to be packaged as give aways for the event. Mom has this super easy and healthy recipe that she has been making for years. I hate …
Mar 02
Fusion Bento box
Sometimes its fun to play with food. Made a bento box – A bento box,( in Japanese is a single portion takeout that resembles the ‘tiffin’ we make for our family members for their work, school or journey) for the kids as a surprise It’s a combination of Banana nutella roti rolls, (Roti layered with Nutella …
Feb 22
Tawa paneer masala
Today was a momentous day as I delivered my very first catering order. Cooking has always been a passion though I treated it like a hobby. The past six months, I have seen my learning graph rising and my interests in cooking developing multifold. I did think that in the future, I would take a …
Feb 20
Strawberries and cream cake with a cinnamon rum sauce
When my kids were born, in the first year, I would celebrate their birthdays monthly. Get a cake, sing happy birthday and then relish it while the little one was clueless. Any reason to eat cake right. 😛 This blog, was a long time in the making. A push and nudge and loads of help …
Feb 18
Lemon Garlic Butter Prawns
Amongst all the food options the sea has to offer, Prawns are my all time favourites. I would salivate when I saw prawns – in any form, tandoori, butter garlic, crisp fried, bacon wrapped. You name it. And then I got married, and M suffers from crustacean related allergies which means he cannot eat prawns, …
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