Bread is something that is in my pantry at any given point of time, so the love for bread puddings comes naturally! Whenever I am lost as to what to make for dessert for the weekend, or have a pack of bread getting stale because I picked up an extra one without much thought, or I have a failed bread attempt, it immediately gets converted into bread pudding! 😀 How many like me, please raise your hands! A little search for “bread pudding” on the blog, will throw up a few options. Also this baked french toast was born in similar fashion. While placing the posts for the Bake-a-thon, my eyes chanced upon this amazing bread pudding I had made sometime ago and that left me wondering if I was posting this at a time when there are no mangoes, at least here. I was wrong in my…
Coffee Cinnamon Rolls
Cinnamon rolls took a long time to grow on me. I never liked them, I really have no reason why. Almost all malls have a Cinnabon outlet here and I would walk past them covering my nose. I never liked the smell that came out of the outlet. It smells too artificial – no offense to the Cinnabon lovers out there, it’s just with me! Each time the girls would want to try, but I just would drag them away because I simply didn’t want to buy it for them. The love for cinnamon as a spice and flavor grew on me only very recently and I have to thank blogging for the same! I now love the smell of cinnamon in bakes, and at times in my tea too, but still I couldn’t get off the thought of the smell of the rolls. Hehe… I finally baked…
Herb Crusted Baked Chicken
Some recipes happen to us in very interesting ways. This one happened on a metro journey. Last year, for a few months, I used to take the metro to office after parking my vehicle at the first station close to my house. Later, when we got parking within our office building – such a relief, Alhamdulillah! – the metro trips stopped. There is a weekly newspaper that appears at the stations every Sunday and I would faithfully pick up one copy for my browsing. There would be nothing much to read as such, but it would have some pretty pictures, little titibits and at times, easy recipes too! This baked chicken is what I discovered in that magazine and got cooking as a part of a Friday lunch as side to some corn peas pulao. The recipe comes together really easy. There is no marination required. The washed…
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…
Brown Butter Granola
I never liked granola till I started baking them myself. What must I say, it is just pure, unadulterated joy to have them just like that, dunk in milk or mixed with yogurt! Delicious… whether it is the plain granola, the chocolate one or laced with cookie batter, it really doesn’t matter! Actually speaking, baking my own granola made me realize how delicious home made stuff can be! I guess I had already mentioned in one of my earlier posts, that my first experience with a pack of granola I picked up from the shelf was not good at all. I don’t know how I managed to finish off that stock without letting it go into the garbage! I guess it’s with everything, whether cakes, cookies or even a simple sandwich, they taste much better when done at home, considering that you know what is going into it to make…
Vegan Raspberry Muffins
My interest towards vegan baking started only when I was forced to go vegan due to medications last year around April for a period of six months. I sometimes wonder whether I would have discovered vegan baking otherwise. Those six months made me realise how tough it is for vegans to even have something from outside. I used to get frustrated at the lack of options and how I would helplessly look at the girls while they enjoy their slice of cake or their bowl of pudding. There would be eggless options, but not vegan options. Thankfully, slowly things are changing, but still vegan options are still mighty expensive in this part of the world. It is easier to make them and eat them at home rather than buy them! Hehe… So for today’s Bake-a-thon post, these vegan muffins studded with raspberries is what I am going to…
Savory Semolina Cake
Like I mentioned in the Baked Rice Casserole post, I wanted to do make sure of adding some savory bakes into the list of posts for the Bakeathon 2017. After all, baking has a bad name of being all sweet, but that is definitely not the case. There are always awesome savory bakes in the form of buns and breads. This is one of the bakes that I have always wanted to try from the time I had started blogging and finally I did! The savory semolina cake was introduced to the world by renowned cookbook author Anjum Anand. She refers that the basis of this cake is the suji or rava dhokla, a savory snack made by Gujaratis. Dhoklas are normally plain and steamed, and finally topped with a tempering. This cake is packed with flavors from the vegetables, the tempering is a part of the baking…
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…
Baked Rice Casserole
For the Bake-a-thon, I wanted to make sure that I don’t have only sweet bakes being posted. So my eyes fell on this delicious baked rice casserole I had made and clicked sometime back. Usually baked casseroles always involve pasta, like this tuna one and sausage one. As this involves rice instead of pasta but cooked in almost the same style, I had to make it. This recipe was part of a cook-along hosted in a lovely FB group that I am a part of, not only that the recipe was shared by someone who is a good friend too, Nuzha. The other recipe I had posted on the blog after learning from this lovely segment was this jiffy pasta. Anyway, coming back to this dish, it involves a little bit of work, since there is some cooking involved of the layers involved. But the recipe was too…
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…