Category: Cakes, Muffins
Julia Child’s Reine de Saba avec Glaçage au Chocolat ~ Chocolate Almond Cake
| August 15, 2012 | Posted by MySpicyKitchen under Almonds, Bakes, Baking, By Ingredient, Cakes, Muffins, Desserts, Desserts, Desserts & Sweets, Event Entries, Nuts |
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
Chenna Poda ~ Paneer Cake for Indian Cooking Challenge
| April 15, 2012 | Posted by MySpicyKitchen under Bakes, Baking, Cakes, Muffins, Desserts, Desserts & Sweets, Event Entries, Paneer, Sweets, Vegetarian |
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
Chocolate Mixed Nuts Brownies
| January 24, 2012 | Posted by MySpicyKitchen under Appetizers/Snacks, Bakes, Baking, Cakes, Muffins |
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
Pound Cake for Sweet Punch
| July 11, 2011 | Posted by MySpicyKitchen under Bakes, Baking, Cakes, Muffins, Desserts, Desserts & Sweets |
I am late posting this month’s sweet punch. For the month of July, sweet punch went back to the basics to bake a simple pound cake. The recipe is from The Cake Bible. According to Rosie, this cake is tight and comes out like the Sara Lee pound cake. I totally agree with her. The… more
Sweet Punch: Blueberry Cake With Spiced Apple Syrup
| February 7, 2011 | Posted by MySpicyKitchen under Bakes, Baking, Blueberries, Cakes, Muffins, Desserts, Desserts, Desserts & Sweets |
This month’s sweet punch is black currant cake slices with spiced apple syrup. I did not have sufficient time to shop around for fresh black currants hence substituted it with blueberries. I assumed we need to use fresh currants and substituted it with blueberries. Looks like I was suppose to use dry currants (raisins). … more
Sweet Punch: Meringue Cake
| January 7, 2011 | Posted by MySpicyKitchen under Bakes, Baking, Cakes, Muffins, Desserts, Desserts, Desserts & Sweets, Event Entries |
Ria gave us three options for this month’s sweet punch and I chose meringue cake from Joy Of Baking. I baked the cake for the new year’s eve, though we did not wait until midnight to cut the cake. This cake was a perfect dessert after a spicy meal; Chicken Biryani and Goat Biryani served… more
Lemon Yogurt Cake
| January 24, 2010 | Posted by usha under Bakes, Baking, Cakes, Muffins, Desserts, Desserts, Desserts & Sweets, Eggs, Event Entries |
This is Ina Garten’s cake. I saw it couple of days ago on food network and wanted to try it. The reason I liked the recipe is that it doesn’t call for butter and uses only vegetable oil. I know oil is fat too but I rather use oil to butter! I have not come… more
S&S Bake: Snow Flecked Brownies
| December 1, 2009 | Posted by usha under Appetizers/Snacks, Bakes, Baking, Cakes, Muffins, Event Entries |
This month’s Sweet & Simple Bake is Snow Flecked Brownies. I am a chocoholic and ever since I saw the bake for this month, I was eager to bake it. However, I was preoccupied with other stuff and could not bake it until this afternoon. Even today, when I woke up this morning, I was… more
S&S Bake: St Clements Drizzle Cake
| October 1, 2009 | Posted by usha under Bakes, Baking, Cakes, Muffins, Event Entries |
Hello, everyone! I have been stranger to the blogosphere lately… I was in India for 5 weeks and got back end of August. Since then, I was a little busy with guests and also a bit lazy to blog…. Today I am here with this month’s (month of September) Sweet & Simple Bake: St Clements… more
Chocolate Orange Drizzle Loaf Cake
| July 1, 2009 | Posted by usha under Bakes, Baking, Cakes, Muffins, Event Entries |
This months Sweet & Simple Bakes is Chocolate Orange Drizzle Loaf Cake. I was afraid I might not be able to bake it before the deadline tonight. It came out very well and since I was running out of time, I cut the cake and took some clicks before the chocolate could set. I followed… more
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