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…
Orange Almond Brownies
Sometimes, I really wonder about my girls. They are growing up at a pace that I have no control over. My younger one will turn 7 this January and I am still yearning for her to go back into her diapers! Those who read my blog regularly or follow me on other social media, know that I am working, with an 8 to 5 work schedule. Many also know that I now go for regular workouts during my working days, taking a break from it on Thursdays and Fridays. This means that by the time I am home after all the traffic, it is past 8 pm and at the bottom of my energy level. All I would want is to eat something, feed the kids and then push them off to sleep. Sometimes, I forget that they are children and I be at my worst behavior, screaming when…
Vegan Chocolate Banana Bread
Can you believe October is ending? Then we will have just have two months left to complete this year. Each year seems to be passing on faster than the previous. Actually, it feels scary too. That we are getting older by the minute, we are moving faster towards the ultimate end… Everyday when I lie down, I wonder what I have done that day to make it special. Maybe it was just a mad rush of traffic, work, gym and home… with not even little time to read the Quran, to listen to it, talk to my kids properly, call my parents, even chat openly with HD… “Man is created hasty…” (Surah Al-Anbiya: start of verse 37) How many times have we forgotten that there is much more than the life in this world? 🙁 I am guilty of the same, day in and day out. Trying to balance…
Gateau aux Pommes ~ French Apple Cake
You would remember I had done the first week of the Blogging Marathon #81 in the theme of “Lentils and Sides”. For the second week, the theme I chose was “Apple Desserts”. It is the season of apples. As of now, you can see wide variety of apples on the shelves with competitive prices. Being in the UAE, the only way to know that it is season is by watching the prices. 😀 All fruits when it is during its season time will be available at really throw-away price, while at the other times, may pinch your pocket despite the availability. I like apples as a fruit and I have one every alternate day. Even during school times, I would be the only one among siblings who would eat apples. I love the red gala ones, which are crunchy and mildly sweet. D likes the round yellow Iranian…
Easy Banana Bread
I normally don’t need a reason to bake a banana bread. I don’t even wait for the bananas to ripe! 😀 Since our house is quite warm most of the time, I buy bananas in small quantities so that we finish consuming it, but sometimes doing it doesn’t help and the bananas get riper quicker than we like it. Just like me, the kids also like the bananas in the just-ripe stage, where the sweetness is mild. Once it gets a little softer, none of us would touch it. Earlier I used to bake quite often, but now I have got myself a bit tight on my baking due to my weight goals. My family has this tendency of eating anything baked only for one day and if there are any leftovers, they wouldn’t touch it in the coming days. I would have to either distribute it or eat…
White House Honey Oat Muffins
While I was on vacation, I had taken a vow not to cook any new dishes unless and until really necessary. I have so much of drafts to cover and somehow I want to finish them off by this year end, however looking at the way things are, I don’t think I will meet the deadline. At the moment, I am going back to my old posts and seeing which needs updates, but I am taking it slow so that I don’t over do myself. 😀 But I had to adjust the vow a bit when I saw the mail for this month’s Fantastical Food Fighting challenge! Sarah mentions that since September is the “National Honey Month” in the USA, the theme would be – no prizes for guessing – honey! We had done a honey post for MFBC a few months ago. I love honey as an…
Blueberry Mug Muffin
I would be lying if I say I don’t miss home. I am not a person who calls my parents every single day, mainly because we run out of topics to talk. 😀 My sister calls umma almost every day and asks detail by detail, however B and I are just the opposite. We always talk to the point. There are times when I call umma after a week, and she starts off with a lot of complaints, but I patiently hear them and smile at myself. What do you do when you lose track of time? After coming back from vacation, I have been calling them alternatively every three days, and somehow after the call, my heart sulks. There was a time when I used to stay with my parents. Sometimes I wished for my own privacy. But once they left and we moved on our own, I…
Ultimate Vegan Brownies
After the Avocado Brownies and the Cream Cheese Brownies, here comes the third brownie under the theme “Let Them Eat Brownies” in the Blogging Marathon #78. I had to choose to share a vegan brownie, since this is one area that I am loving to bake. Baking a cake or a brownie without any diary or eggs is a challenge in itself. Making it successful is very tricky too. You can browse through the vegan bakes on the blog here. While craving for brownies, I landed up on this link which called it the “ultimate” vegan brownie. The title itself was so tempting for me to get moving on with it. The vegan avocado brownie on the blog had a really fudge like texture, which was missing in this brownie, but would tick all the right buttons for sweet tooths who like more cake like brownies, just like…