I made this unbelievably tasty desert Basbousa for Eid this year at home. Usually we go to hubbys hometown to celebrate but this year Eid celebration was at home and I had to make something special. Basbousa is a native Egyptian and a traditional middle Eastern sweet cake dessert that is relatively easy to make […]
Cake Series
Vanilla Cashew Heart cake
I made this vanilla cashew heart cake for Valentines Day this year. Ingredients 2 eggs½ cup almond milk(50ml)½ cup condensed milk(50 ml)3/4 cup butter( 75 ml)1.5 cup APF½ cup cashew powderVanilla extractBaking vinegar ½ tspBaking powder 1 ½ tsp Method for Vanilla Cashew Heart cake Beat the eggs until frothy.Add in condensed milk + butter […]
Walnut Apple and Honey Cake.
Walnut,Apple and Honey Cake recipe This Walnut,Apple and Honey Cake was baked as a Diwali gift for a neighbour. Ingredients ½ cup chopped Apples½ tsp lemon juice10 Walnuts choppedButtermilk ½ cup3 eggs4tbsp organic brown sugar (40 gm)6 tbsp organic raw honey ( 60 gm)1/2 cup Melted Butter (50gm)2 tbsp Buttermilk/CurdVanilla Extract 1.5 tsp1 & ¾ […]
Orange Cake
Eggless Orange Cake Recipe I made this eggless orange loaf cake on order from my mother. She wanted me to bake this cake for some of her friends who meet weekly to sing devotional songs(bhajans). Obviously it had to be eggless. I have made my fair share of eggless cakes, as I went through a […]
Loaf Cake
A Loaf Cake is a big hit in our household. My sister let me know a few days back that my blog does not have any recipe for a decadent chocolate cake. That was quiet shocking as I am a chocoholic of the highest degree. So I frantically went through my gallery and Instagram feed […]
Hot Milk Cake
Baking is my earliest form of creative expression. One of my recent favourite cake I have baked is the Hot Milk cake.I was reading a book by my current favourite author, Sally Hepworth. In it, one of the protagonist, Rachel claimed that she “bakes her feelings”! “ The methodical nature of baking, provided an equilibrium […]
Cake Series: Chocolate Ragi Marble cake
As a part of the cake series for my next book, 101 cakes, I have come up with this new cake recipe. The chocolate ragi marble cake. Marble cakes enchant me. Just a simple technique and you end up with a pretty as a picture cake.The recipe for chocolate ragi marble cake is given in […]
Cake Series: Zebra Cake
Ingredients for Zebra Cake 3 eggsBrown sugar1 cupCurd 2 tbspVanilla extract 1.5 tspButter 50 gm meltedSunflower oil 50 mlFlour 1 ½ cup (150gm)Milk Powder ½ cupPink salt ½ tspBaking pd 1 ½ tspCocoa pd 4 tbsp , 1 tbsp brown sugar½ cup fresh creamGreased and paper lined round tinBake at 180 degree celsius for 30 […]
Cake Series: Orange Pound Cake and Food for thought
Food for Thought Before I come to my recipe for Orange Pound Cake, I would like to share some food for thought.Recently I seem to have developed some interest in philosophy. The ancient philosopher Aristotle believed that happiness for human beings is connected to function. A persons life can be happy one when he has […]
Cake Series: Chocolate Beetroot Marble Cake
Cake Series I am planning to write a new recipe book. Tentatively I have thought of calling it the 100 Cake Book. So for that first I have to bake 100 cakes. I will include those recipes in a series of posts called ” Cake Series”. That is my new self set challenge. There is […]