Vegetarians and anyone on a eggless diet look for egg substitutes for baking purposes.
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Halloween candy
You either get to dress up in a costume and go around, or stay back at home distributing candy to everyone who stops by!
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Also known as Chocolate Raspberry Thumbprint cookies!
Continue reading “Snack recipes – #10 Chocolate Raspberry cookies”Sugar crystal designs
Crystallized sugar not only tastes great, it is easily moldable into beautiful shapes, making it an artists landscape!
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When your child surprises you with a homemade ice cream… it is bliss!
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Also known as Gajar ka halwa!
Continue reading “Snack recipes – #9 Carrot Halwa”Ice creams
Everyone loves ice creams – especially during summer! Have you tried making one at home..?
Continue reading “Ice creams”Variety of baking molds & pans
Anyone who bakes loves to experiment, and when it comes to a set of kitchen tools that can potentially enhance experience, it turns out into a family fun activity or team building activity! Some of the interesting baking pans that I loved..!
Continue reading “Variety of baking molds & pans”Snack recipes – #5 Fudge brownies
Made Fudge brownies in a mini-cupcake pan!
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Loved Richa’s Banana nut chocolate chip muffin recipe and have been waiting to try it for some time! Turned out awesome 🙂
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Fruit custard – one of my friend’s recipe!
Continue reading “Snack recipes – #2 Fruit custard”Rasamalai cake
Delicious cake by a local entrepreneur!
Continue reading “Rasamalai cake”Coconut Poli (sweet dish)
Coconut poli is a delicacy in South India.
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Tried something new and made two variations of milk sweets changing one ingredient, the taste and texture changed drastically!
Continue reading “Milk sweet – Khoa”Moist pineapple cupcakes with lemon frosting
Baked these after a very long time! Tasted yummy!
Continue reading “Moist pineapple cupcakes with lemon frosting”Rolling pins for bakers
I love baking – especially hand made cookies! When I was looking for a rolling pin, was inspired by the creativity and innovation in this simple baker’s tool!
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Valentine’s day special 🙂 Raspberry filled chocolate hearts!
Continue reading “Raspberry chocolate hearts”Quiz 31 – Indian sweets
How many of these Indian sweets / desserts can you recognize? How many have you tried? I have tried making many of them and looking forward to trying all of them this year.
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Blueberry muffins
After trying a variety of blueberry muffins from multiple sources over years, sharing a recipe that has gotten great comments from many. Do feel free to adapt it to your taste.
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Croquembouche – French & Indian versions
Have you ever tried a choux pastry.. in simple terms cream puff (thats the best way to describe it!). The outer layer is a puffed baked shell and hollow inside. One can fill it with cream cheese, whipped cream, chocolate, jelly, dessert mixture, mixed fruits and nuts soaked in caramelized sugar, ice cream, and even savory fillings.. you get the gist. Basically, anything that can stay in a semi-solid/gel type consistency or that can be frozen to retain its consistency.
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Mysore pak story
I saw a documentary on Netflix about foods from different places and how Kings in old days used to select their chefs and master chefs to cook a variety of food for them!
The foodie in me got interested! It seems the cooks or chefs who start off are asked to cut vegetables (of course.. thats the tough part anyday), then they progress to make entrees using the given process, then they progress next to cook appetizers, the well progressed ones are then allowed to step into dessert zone 🙂 Sweet making (delicacies) were the most difficult to make and the quality of delicacy determines the quality of the chef!
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