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..!

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Snack recipes – #4 Banana nut chocolate chip muffins

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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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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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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