Category: Bakes

Sun Dried Tomato & Onion Tart

Baking Partners, Savory tart

The bake for Baking Partners # 6 is a tart and I chose a savory tart suggested by Samantha. I made half the recipe, following the recipe to dart, except for the cheese. The recipe called for gruyere cheese and I used gruyere cheese for half the tart and paneer (Indian cheese) for the other… more

Shaped Dinner Rolls

Baking Partners, Dinner Rolls, Rose Rolls, Kaiser Rools, Rosette Rolls, Loin House Roll, Clover Roll, Braided Roll

Holidays are just around the corner and this month’s bake is perfect to try out some homemade dinner rolls for the holidays. We were given two recipes for the rolls, one from the Loin House using egg and the other is an eggless rolls recipe. I followed the Loin House recipe. We were given seven… more

Cornflake Coconut Cookies

Baking Partners,

This month I am very late in posting my recipe for Baking Partners. I apologize for the delay. The theme for this month is cookies. We were given three cookies and asked to bake at least on recipe. When the recipes were revealed, I deiced to bake Oreo cookies. Instead, I ended up baking cornflake… more

Julia Child’s Reine de Saba avec Glaçage au Chocolat ~ Chocolate Almond Cake

Julia Child

Baking partners is a new virtual baking group. Every month, we will bake a recipe and post it in our blogs on the 15th of the month. For this month, the first bake of this new baking group is Julia Child’s Reine de Saba avec glacage au chocolat or Chocolate almond cake as a tribute… more

Zucchini Lime Cookies

Zucchini Lemon Cookies, Zucchini Cookies, Cookie Mela, Bake Fest

Last year for Christmas, my nephew gave me a cookbook, The Food52 Cookbook: 140 Winning Recipes from Exceptional Home Cooks. As the title suggests, all the recipes are from home cooks and some of them are bloggers. The recipe for Zucchini Lemon Cookies was shared by Kelsey The Naptime Chef caught my eye and bookmarked… more

Chenna Poda ~ Paneer Cake for Indian Cooking Challenge

Chenna Poda, Paneer Cake, Orissa sweet, Indian Cooking Challenge

For this month, recipe for Indian Cooking Challenge (ICC) is Chenna Poda. Chenna Poda is a dessert or sweet from the state of Orissa, India. Chenna is paneer, Indian cottage cheese and chenna poda is a paneer cake. Paneer or chenna is seasoned with sugar, cardamom powder and a few nuts, and is baked for… more

Mexican Chocolate Cream Pie

Mexican Chocolate Pie, Cooking Light, Chocolate Mela, Blogging Marathon, Chocolate Pie

For the finale of the marathon, I thought of making molten lava chocolate. It has been on my to-bake list for a long time and that was the first recipe I listed down when I decided on chocolate theme for this marathon. 3-4 days ago I went to Whole Foods to pick up some pizza… more

No Bake Chocolate Biscuit Squares

Chocolate Mela, BLogging Marathon, No Bake Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Biscuit Cake, Chocolate Tiffin

Today I made no bake chocolate biscuit squares. I adapted Joy of Baking recipe and these squares are perfect to munch on anytime of the day. I made this in the evening and by the time the squares were set, it was dark and had to take the pictures in my kitchen. The picture is… more

Almond, Vanilla & White Chocolate Cookies

Blogging Marathon, Chocolate Mela, Bake Fest, White Chocolate chip Cokies, Almond cookies,

For the fifth day of the marathon, I am posting almond vanilla cookies from Amulya’s blog, a pastry chef from Melbourne, Australia. When planning for the marathon and making a list of chocolate recipes to post, I remembered her blog. I was meaning to cook something from her blog for the past one month and… more

Chocolate Mixed Nuts Brownies

Chocolate Bronies, Chocolate nuts brownies, Chocolate Mela, Joy of Baking, Blogging Marathon

For day 2 of the marathon, I have another rich, chocolate treat, a nutty brownie. The recipe is from Joy of Baking and these brownies have a dry flaky crust and a moist texture inside. I used walnuts & pecans to make these brownies a little healthy. I followed the recipe as given except the… more