This rich buttery but healthy pound cake has always been on my must do list. I’ve often used oats to bake with but never experimented much with flours and cake, so this was a first for me. So with gingerly steps I actually followed Martha Stewart’s recipe to a point and then well, then my second nature got the better of me. I went experimental 🙂 What emerged was a delicious, soft, dreamy, pillowy pound cake with all the goodness or barley and the richness of the cream cheese.
Summer’s here. After a gap of almost two months the ACs have been switched on again. My fridge is full of fruits and cold soups. It’s time to say bye to the heavier creamier dishes. This weekend I saw myself churning up chutneys for my chat party—pani puri, bhel, sev puri and making this super light and cold version of a chiffon pie made to celebrate the oranges!
If there’s anything I love, it’s a good dessert to end my meal and a good digestif to end the day 🙂 This lemony cake was first baked 3 years ago for a New Year party in Goa. It’s tangy, minty, lemony, creamy and has just the right caremalised kick from the lemon wheels that are cooked in sugar till they are crisp and brown, and sweet and sour to taste! It’s literally an explosion in your mouth. What’s more eating your cocktail is the new trend! Get ready to bake this over the weekend
This is one of my favourite go-to-dessert when I need something sweet that doesn’t need too much effort. I’ve made many a bread pudding, but never bothered to steer away from the traditional recipe. This time was different having just cleaned up my pantry I had managed to find some 10 bags of miniscule amounts of berries, nuts, chocolate compound and even custard powder! I had two options, save all the bits and pieces for later or bring out the eggs, bread and milk and bake up a delight for the tired soul. It’s 11pm…but never to late for baking.
I could have thought of a brilliant name but i didn’t want to lose out on any of the ingredients. I mean what’s the use of fancy names if you don’t know what’s in it. Right? Anyway so this dessert was born only because I messed up on what I was actually trying to make. 🙂 The ingredients are all the same, it’s just the assembly that went for a toss. I tried to make chocolate bowls on balloons, not realising that the temperature in my kitchen was not conducive to that kind of assembly.
It was time for us to move home, yet again, and I was in a desperate need to clean out all the goodies in my deep fridge–there’s usually enough in there to feed a guest list of about 10 people, arriving unannounced. I had just enough short crust pastry dough to make a pie and about an hour in hand before my guests for dinner arrived. On this particular day, my brain was ticking sweet rather than savoury.
These Freakshakes were invented in a little bakery and cafe called Patissez in Canberra, Australia and since then they shaken up the world of food and the Internet. The Freakshake is a wild combination of flavours and textures. They are supposed to be messy, indulgent, flowing out of the mason jar and filled with delicacies like Nutella, pretzels, salted caramel, brownies and loads and loads of cream.
Heavenly. Chewy, dense, chocolatey. Have them with milk, coffee or even green tea. No actually they need no accompaniments. And no friends. You will not want to part with these golden discs of delight. They just need to be devoured. By my own admission, I’ve never had a Chocolate Chip Cookie that’s so crisp and I am delighted to share the recipe with you guys.
I love chocolates…there isn’t a single night when I sleep without gobbling up at least one teeny-weeny piece! And yet I maintain I am always on a diet.
Not that I need a reason to make chocolates, but I’d just got my hands onto a sugar-free chocolate compound and I had to try it out especially since I’ve been on the look out for this compound for a quite a few years now. It’s super economical and very easily available. Yippie! (more…)