I haven’t been sharing much on the blog because it’s been the usual hussle-bussle. I won’t say nothing is happening in life… There is a lot happening but somehow I don’t want to sink myself into it. It is always better to try and stay afloat, rather than push yourself down and feel awful about it. From the start of the year, things haven’t been really positive, and that has stalled even my weight loss. I am not able to put in as much discipline into my eating as I had done last year, and this is frustrating me to the core. But I am trying to stay focused on myself and keeping myself on line, making sure that I don’t lose all the hard work that I have done last year. Maintenance is as important and sustainable at the stage I am in, I guess… 🙂 Talking…
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Eggless Chocolate Cookie Butter Cake | Chocolate Biscoff Cake
Today’s post for the Bake-a-thon 2018 comes up with a story, but it is a sad one. By the way, can you believe that we are on the second last post for the Bake-a-thon? This time has been super fast. I have totally enjoyed baking, clicking, typing and scheduling the posts for this series with the chocolate theme. I hope all of you loved all the posts that I have done for this series! It has left me drained, literally speaking, but drained in a good way, Alhamdulillah… 🙂 So coming to the story for this cake… I usually bake and take something when I go visit my friends or relatives after a long time. It is like breaking the ice too, right? I always prefer home made goodies instead of buying a box of chocolates. It makes it feel a lot more personalized. I have mentioned before…
Biscoff Lassi
Assalamu alaikum all my readers… should I say I missed the blog? I really don’t know. In fact, I would say that I had an amazing break from so many of my daily activities including the blog. I must admit I enjoyed the break. I was a bit pensive but there were days when I haven’t checked the activity on the blog and it has moved on itself, Alhamdulillah. But I am glad to be back and it feels like coming back home, hehe… 😀 It is a blessing that I still have drafts pending and I can relax to cook new recipes and post. But on the side, I am trying to look at what I can do to get my act better. Let’s see how it pans out. 🙂 There is a lot to write about my vacation, but I guess that can wait for the time…
Biscoff Crunch Pudding
Allah’s ways are beautiful, indeed… There were two things that happened back-to-back early this week. One was reading the below message, that I got through a group I am a part of on Whassap – we are part of umpteen number of groups from cousins to family (close and extended) to friends to what not! I don’t go through all that come since I have no time to watch or read them. I carefully choose and watch or read whatever I feel like. Alhamdulillah, I have always felt that what I read or watch affects me in some way or the other. So below was what I read: “Sometimes… someone crosses your mind. It may be someone you have not thought of in a while. It may be someone you are not in touch with anymore. And their memory may bring a smile to your face or sadness…
Biscoff Cheesecake Tiramisu
Ah… now the third one for the 3 back-to-back Biscoff recipe series – the others being Cookie Butter Cake and Shrikand… This was not tough to choose and I had to keep it for the last. 😉 This Biscoff Cheesecake Tiramisu is a revelation to the say the least! I was on a tiramisu fix for a few months. All I would do was get the long finger and get making them. Hehe… Tiramisu is really addictive, isn’t it? Whoever agrees with me, please raise their hands! 😉 Now this isn’t an authentic Tiramisu since it doesn’t use mascarpone cheese. Instead it uses the thick cheese that comes in packs – call it Philadelphia or any other brand. So I decided to make it cheesecake style, but layer up dipped long finger in between as well, and what more, with a generous sprinkling of crushed Lotus cookies. As…
Cookie Butter/ Biscoff Shrikand
There was this post I was reading, and I thought I must share it here as I strongly believe in it: Sometimes, all it takes to cheer up a person is a kind word of appreciation of a good quality that he has. I feel that in today’s world, people have become really miserly with expressing appreciation. Even though by mind we may think good of the person opposite to us, we take a backward step in admiting it to them. What do we loose by doing so, I fail to understand. There are times when such an action from us is enough to raise that particular person from the throngs of depression into a positive outlook. Or it may have been a bad day for them, and that statement turns out to be a silver lining of hope for them. The goodness is many… let us…
Cookie Butter Cake | Biscoff Cake
I have been trying to do the three-back-to-back series now every alternate month, since I am already doing the Blogging Marathon posts that operate in the same idea and I don’t want to clog up my posts unnecessarily. Hehe… This month, while running through my list of drafts, I had only one theme that came into my mind and that was “BISCOFF” or simply called, cookie butter. I had mentioned in a few posts that Biscoff is a craze now here. It is drizzled like a sauce over crepes, waffles and pancakes, made into freak-shakes, is a flavoring for soft serve ice creams, and what not! I found out Biscoff during my vegan days since it is marked as a vegan spread. Mind it that not all cookie butters are vegan, it’s only Biscoff that is. I have tried a few other brands that were better priced than…
Cookie Butter (Biscoff) White Chocolate Blondies
The madness of cookie butter, the well known one being Biscoff is real! Here, you will find it being used in every imaginable dessert. My first tryst of it was in a milkshake. It was really thick and so calorific that it gave me a spike for quite some time. 😀 You will find it in freak-shakes, filled in crepes and even drizzled on it with a crushing of the Lotus cookies, in cakes, in ice creams, in what not! I used to love it initially when I bought it, but now as is with everything, the craze has gone down. I do stock it to spread it on toast for the kids and for B to have his occasional spoonful when he gets bored of Nutella. 😀 But I prefer it in my cooking as it gives a very nice hue. I have used it in granola, in…
Biscoff Chia Pudding
I always thought that life would get easier as kids grow up. But no, I am wrong. As they grow up, they get complicated. We then tend to compare how we were at their age and wonder what is happening to today’s generation. I was shocked when soon-to-turn seven Azza told me that she and her friend were discussing how many business their fathers have. “Ummi, she told me her abba has ** shops, so I told her that my abba has ** shops.” Discussion of wealth… really? At times, Rasha speaks in a tone to imply that whatever we have is theirs. I always wonder whether we even thought this way when we were their age. We weren’t bothered about how much our parents had, but we opened our eyes and saw them more without being implicit, that even asking a penny mattered to us, it made us…
Vegan Banana Chia Biscoff Muffins
I don’t know if I really love Biscoff. If you ask me, I would say a “no”. But I don’t hate it, I just like it. 😀 Even though I love sweets, I find Biscoff and its Lotus biscuits overwhelmingly sweet. I can’t go beyond one little spoon of Biscoff or two little biscuits at the same time. But I can vouch for one thing – that both these ingredients make amazing desserts! If you love Biscoff, then here are a few recipes on the blog that you could try: Cookie Batter Granola Biscoff Almond Milk Pops Biscoff White Hot Chocolate Vegan Biscoff Cheesecake I am now going to add one more to the list… 😉 These vegan banana muffins are spiked with Biscoff with an added crunch and goodness of chia seeds. Just like all the banana bakes I have made and cherished, I ended up eating…
Vegan Biscoff Cheesecake
After the Gulab Jamun cheesecake shots, here comes the second cheesecake in the Blogging Marathon #76 under the theme, “I love, you love Cheesecakes!”. And it has to be vegan! 😉 I have been wanting to try a vegan cheesecake since very long but somehow I never liked the idea. Maybe it is just the mental thought. I have been seeing this recipe and the amount of cashews that go into them, somehow doesn’t appeal to me. However, while this theme was declared, I had already decided I would try to make one, to know the feel and texture of it. The recipe is very easy to make. The crust of the cheesecake is dates and walnuts, while the “cheesecake” portion is blend cashew cream, made up of soaked cashew nuts, coconut milk, some coconut oil and your choice of flavoring. I chose to make this with…
Biscoff White Hot Chocolate
After the minty hot chocolate, here’s the second one. Biscoff White Hot Chocolate is simply a white hot chocolate spiked up with some Biscoff! How does that sound? I got the idea during my Google searches and was really smitten by the idea. The Biscoff goes amazingly well with the white chocolate, in fact I believe this combination would be much better than the combination of milk chocolate with Biscoff. I have already posted a white hot chocolate before on the blog, which also had a spike of cinnamon. Similar to that one, this one also has a sprinkle of cinnamon powder at the top and it gives a very homely feeling to the drink. Off to the recipe… and I hope you will keep waiting for what is going to appear tomorrow as the third recipe… 🙂 Biscoff White Hot Chocolate Save Print Prep…
DIY: Almond Milk | Biscoff Almond Milk Pops
Time for this month’s 3 back-to-back! I have decided I may leave the series for next month and maybe even September since I may be in the hangover of coming back after vacations. 😉 Just an excuse, you see… Hehe… I guess you would have got it from the title of today’s post about what the theme is going to be – yes, it is going to be some DIYs that you can make at home plus a recipe that uses it. Sounds good? Like receiving a bonus, right? 😀 The first I decided to do was how to make almond milk. Almond milk never occurs to you till you have a problem where you can’t have milk. I love milk, whether it is cold or added into tea or into my smoothies. Even though I don’t have any addiction, but I love my milk in any way….
Cookie Butter | Biscoff Granola
A month after the other seems to come in full speed, and I guess it comes faster when it is for something exciting! Even though I am very new to the Secret Recipe Club – this is my third post, I am seen excitedly waiting for the email to come and start my browsing through the assigned blog for the recipe of my choice to try! So here I am with this month’s post… 🙂 I was assigned a blog with a very interesting name: Join us, Pull up a Chair. Heather, who runs the blog, basically asks us to get comfortable, feel at home and to read on. 🙂 I loved the name, seriously! 🙂 She has a variety of interesting recipes on the blog and since I was somehow fixated at wanting to make some granola, since it has been a long time since I had…
Chocolate Hazelnut Spread | Easy Homemade “Nutella”
I had mentioned regarding my tryst with my one and only pack of hazelnuts in this biscotti post. I also did mention that I used up the rest of the hazelnuts in trying to make one of the most loved spreads in the world. Of course there is no point for guessing, it has to be Nutella, right? 🙂 I must confess I am no Nutella fan. I belong to the category who can’t stand eating Nutella, condensed milk or Biscoff from the spoon. I may eat Horlicks or Boost but not these. I really have no reason why. Sometimes, our aversion has no explanation, isn’t it? But I love using them to cook or bake. Here are a few Nutella recipes on the blog, among which my personal favorite are these super easy puffs with banana – so delicious that you must try them for your children….