Most of the time, fudge brownies are associated with melted chocolate, but what if you have no time to really wait for it to melt and cool? I remember mentioning that during last Eid-ul-Fitr, we had an impromptu trip to Muscat to see my friend. Despite HD telling me that we may go, I wasn’t sure and then finally he broke the ice at 9 am that day morning, that we would leave by 3:.30 pm. You can imagine my panic – I hate going empty handed, that too to a best friend’s house and I had no time to go out and buy as such. In between preparing lunch, I searched through for an easy brownie recipe and ended up on this link on King Arthur’s website. Those who have tried recipes from their site will vouch how reliable they are, so I went ahead with it,…
Be My Guest – Carrot Cake
This series called “Be My Guest” doesn’t only have bloggers that I invite. There are many whom I know who volunteer to be a part of this series, plus I get a lot of emails too. Most of the time, I have to screen through them since I want to showcase only food bloggers who are genuinely interested in doing their work. At the end of 2017, I had an email from Sukhmani, who blogs at Kitchen Islande, for featuring a guest post. She is a brand new blogger, who just started her blog journey last October and I liked that she went ahead and asked me if she could be a part of the blog. Since December and January were already done, I asked her to do in February. And here she is! I don’t know whether she did gauge that I love a good carrot cake! Banana…
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…
Mary Berry’s Marble Loaf
Sometimes I forget about the last Saturday of the month, and then all of a sudden, it hits me that it is time for the book review! This time, I decided to choose a baking book that was purchased due to my admiration of the pretty woman in “The Great British Bake Off”. I don’t know if I sound lame but I never knew there was a program by that name till the news that Nadia won the title in 2015. It just kept making rounds on Facebook so I got down to watching the show on YouTube and I so loved it. It now comes under the list of programs that I binge watch when I just want to be crawled up on the couch! My eyes constantly went onto the warm and calm looking Mary Berry and I started searching more about her, only to know how…
One Bowl Chocolate Cake | Easy Chocolate Cake
This weekend, the little one turned “not-so-little”. Azza is now officially 7, so what she got as her birthday gift is a lecture where she has to start helping thaatha with her chores and start praying as well. 😀 I don’t know whether she liked it or not, and her expression gave out nothing! Hehe… Everybody would tell me that girls tend to grow up faster, and I seem to have seen it with Rasha more than Azza. Azza still acts kiddish, compared to Rasha at that age. May it’s because she is the younger one. Whatever said and done, observing that her features are changing, considering that she has lost her milk teeth and they are being replaced by rabbit like huge teeth and it is overall changing her face, makes my heart twitch a bit. Don’t we search for the childish traits in our kids’ faces?…
Red Velvet IceCream Cake
Alhamdulillah, the blog is 5 today! I have written long posts every blog anniversary, but this time I will give it a break. 😉 I guess I am done with being emotional about the blog and look at it very practically from now on. 😀 As I go into this post, I want to share with you a little secret. I actually planned a super long post of the best recipe of each month since The BST started, yes, 60 months and 60 posts. But as I started working on the post and reached close to the end of the first year, I got so overwhelmed of selecting the posts that I decided to give it up halfway! 😀 I really couldn’t help it… So coming back to what I had originally planned for… This year, you may have noticed that the flow is broken. I am taking…
Almond Apricot Cake
When I enrolled for the Bake-a-thon with Valli in October, I was in a lot of thought. How would the whole thing be? I have been a part of the Blogging Marathon for a few months now and it is a more themed activity, but this was thirteen days of baked goodies, with no specific theme as such. Since I had drafts available – referred to as “magic folder” by the BM team 😀 – and I thought I would be able to pull it out, I jumped into it and I am glad I took the plunge. Now looking back at all the posts I did for this marathon baking initiative, I am glad I participated in it. I sincerely hope I have done justice to it and selected the best of the baking recipes that I have tried, tested and succeeded in my kitchen. Do check out…
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…
Eggless Chocolate Cake | Condensed Milk Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Icing
I was wondering if I should go on with the Bake-a-thon 2017 without a chocolate cake recipe and my mind said, NO! 😀 I had initially chosen to feature the Orange Almond Brownies while I was deciding which posts I should put in. Then my eyes fell on this one. One of the cakes that I made to gift my fellow bloggers while I went to see them and I totally enjoyed clicking them too. The time I clicked, I had left behind only one slice at home which disappeared from the counter top upon return! You can imagine the disappointment on the girls’ face once we returned back home. We finally traced the culprit, it was none other than B! 😀 So to cover up the disappointment, I had to make this cake one more time. So why was the cake delayed? I was…
Eggless Banana Coconut Bread
While doing a post for the Bake-a-thon 2017, I shouldn’t be leaving a banana bake! Bananas are my favorite fruit to bake with. There are so many different types of banana breads and cakes already on the blog and I feel it is never enough. I just want to keep exploring more and more. 😀 Nowadays, I tend to buy just enough bananas to eat so that I am not tempted to bake! Hehe… Once I happened to chance upon this recipe and since it had coconut in it, I had to try it. This is not the first time I have baked with the banana coconut combination – this crumb cake with the same combination was a killer that I am considering baking this one really soon, hopefully with wholemeal! So I was sure this one would be an amazing back too… I guess you can see it…
Ghee Cake
This month, I am a part of the team that is going to do the Bake-a-Thon this month. You will see a baking recipe appearing on the participating blogs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, throughout the month of December. Since the month has started on a Friday, the first is up for today! For the first time since starting the blog, I will have a post up every Friday this month! 😀 The only reason why I took up the challenge is because I had enough to support off from my drafts. I know that nobody wants to believe me when I say that I am hardly cooking and clicking, ever since I have come back from vacation – that’s three months now! I have been concentrating on eating clean, staying away from all the “nasty foods”, and trying to tone myself up. It has been a bumpy…
Spiced Banana Breakfast Muffins
Nowadays, I buy just enough bananas for us to eat, so that we don’t have much of leftover to tempt me to go ahead and bake. 😀 When they are ripe, I tend to freeze them so that I can use them for my breakfast smoothies during the weekend. But at times, I can’t stop myself from baking and enjoying them, but I try to keep them as close to being healthy. These banana muffins are made of wholewheat flour (aatta) – even better if you can get hold of wholemeal flour, and spiked with a lot of spices. If you thought that banana bakes are supposed to be only with cinnamon, then these muffins will change your thought process. It has almost all spices that would essentially go into your masala chai! I had printed out this recipe from the General Mills site but unfortunately that link…