- BAKING, CUPCAKES/MUFFINS, DESSERTS, EGGLESS, INDIAN INSPIRED, PASTRY/SMALL CAKES, TEA CAKES, VEGETARIAN
The Prettiest Eggless Saffron Pistachio Cupcakes with Saffron Buttercream .. you’ll love these
These Eggless Saffron Pistachio Cupcakes with Saffron Buttercream seem the perfect thing to celebrate the onset of the festive season. They come together in minutes, and the star is the frosting. saffron with pistachios adds luxury to these delicious cupcakes, the rose petals adding beauty.
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Eggless Saffron Pistachio Halwa Madeleines
Simple, staple ingredients and oh-so-festive, these Eggless Saffron Pistachio Halwa Madeleines are small treats perfect for tea time. Dip them into dark chocolate or perhaps white chocolate, else serve them as they are, fresh out of the oven. They are delicious warm when the flavours really play their magic, and great at room temperature too.
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Badaam & Gulab Cake {Almond & Rose Cake} … colours for Holi
Badaam & Gulab Cake {Almond & Rose Cake}, a recipe inspired by Holi, the festival of colour. The no bake cake is eggless, simple & based on ayurveda.
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Moong Dal Halwa, Dark Chocolate Nut Clusters, Baklava from scratch … have a sweet Diwali
“You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.” Oprah Winfrey Moong Dal Halwa, Dark Chocolate Nut Clusters, Baklava from scratch … how can we not go sweet on Diwali, the festival of lights? The halwa is special. The recipe is from the very sweet, talented and humble Chef Kunal Kapur, of Indian Master Chef fame. Masterchef Kunal Kapur judged a charity cook-off between a few chosen ones from the canola India Facebook contest and a couple of food bloggers. The chosen contestants came together to cook some healthy Diwali treats, in canola oil, for the underprivileged children from the…
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A Traditional Cake Mixing Ceremony…can you hear the bells ringing?
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!” Hamilton Wright Mabie Time flies and how. Seems like the year is on a gallop. I missed the walk, the trot and the canter completely. Every day is whizzing by; it’s October already! That winter is almost here struck me when some of my girlfriends like Barbara began the ’12 weeks to Christmas Cookies’ countdown.Then a few days ago I got an invite to a ‘traditional cake mixing ceremony‘, and I was like “Whoa? Is it the time of the year already?“ Traditional Cake Mixing Ceremony The age old ceremony of cake mixing starts a few…
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Dresden Stollen… Stolen my heart, it has!!
“Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I’m a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death” Wendy Wasserstein It’s all her fault. I wish I could have stolen it. Jamie tweeted she was pulling out a freshly baked Stollen from her oven a few days ago. ‘Pleeeeeeeease’ came the shout, ‘we want some too!!’ Diva & me fought for it, but I knew I had to make mine soon. Diva had a better chance of getting to Nantes to Jamie’s oven before me, so I took a stab…