Apr 09
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
Chocolate cakes are in demand and when I asked the birthday girl what she wanted, she prompltly replied chocolate. I recently made a salted caramel sauce using Kiran Tarun’s recipe (www.kirantarun.com) and knew I wanted to use it in a cake. The chocolate sponge was from Nidhis blog (www.soulandspicebox.com). I made a chocolate cake with …
Mar 21
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 15
A special person deserves a special cake. It was M’s birthday and we decided to have a party by calling his friends over for dinner. I causually asked him, have u ever had a birthday party with friends over and was surprised when he answered in the negative. Thought back to the 14 years we …
Feb 22
Birthdays are always super exciting. I am like a little child when my birthday comes. I would shout out “ITS MY BIRTHDAY” all day if I could. Is it mid life crisis. Naah. It’s just the child in me who loves it. I love planning surprises for other people’s birthday and just wait to see …
Feb 20
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 16
Presenting my daughters birthday cake. It’s a triple layered vanilla sponge with one layer of white chocolate ganache, one layer of Nutella and one layer of dark chocolate ganache. It’s frosted all over with milk chocolate ganache and Kitkat. This recipe was given to me by Nidhi(www.soulandspicebox.com). Its a no oil, no butter recipe that …
Feb 11
One of my favourite things to eat is Banana bread. Have been wanting to bake a banana bread since ages. Since my cousins were visiting India, I made a cake to welcome them. As usual Nidhi (http://soulandspicebox.com/boozy-rum-cup-cakes/) came to my rescue with a recipe. Threw in a surprise element of peanut butter chips. Nidhis recipe is mentioned …
Jan 21
Is it tea time? Oh yes it is. And what’s perfect with tea, did u say cake? U got that right. A moist fragrant Coconut cake blended with pistachios and dried rose petals The use of freshly grated coconut gave it a wonderful barfi like texture and the rose petals a fragrant aroma.This is one cake …
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