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Strawberry & Cape Gooseberry Pink Peppercorn Fro Yo … Here’s Spring!
“Oh, they’s so fresh an’ fine, an’ they’s jus’ off the vine. Straw-ber-ry! Staw-ber-ry!” Porgy and Bess Yesterday was the first day of Spring in North India, ‘Basant’ as it’s locally called. It makes the end of winter here and is celebrated with the festival of colour, Holi. It’s quite surprising to see that year after year the Hindu calendar marks a different date for Holi, and this is always the first day of Spring. The weather magically changes, and the date is never wrong! It always marks the last day of winter, of warm clothes, and dispels the need for that warm, comforting bowl of soup. There’s Spring in…
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Red Velvet Cake Roll with Strawberries and Ricotta …give me RED!
“Lots of bright colors like lime, orange and red this year.” Barbara Henderson The sight of the brilliant RED in the RVC takes my breath away each time I see a picture. Does that happen to you too? I have always wanted to make a red velvet cake (RVC) for as long as I can remember. So much talk about it, so many pictures calling my name, but I never quite had the courage to try making something so red which often involved a whole bottle of red food colouring. It scared me! Almost every recipe I came across had about that amount of colour to lend the cake its…
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Strawberry Galette with Vanilla Scented Frangipane … ♥ Rustic Sweetheart Tart ♥
This one smells like strawberry. Lucy Garcia The rustic beauty of a galette is something that I cannot bypass. I saw an Strawberry-Apple Galette at my new found favourte destination, The Mansurovs, and I knew it would play on my mind till I made something similar. I needed an opportunity, an excuse to bake… delicate, perishable fruit always seem to present just that window of opportunity! It was a day I had gone to the market and the vendor got me 2 boxes of pretty strawberries. Yes, right, I coudn’t resist the offer and came home on the double. Day 1 went by, but day 2 had me longing to…
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Strawberry Apple Pie Cake with Dried Fruits – What’s Love Got to Do With It?
“And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.” Neil Gaiman What’s l♥v got to do with this cake? Everything!! Loves got everything to do with this if you love fruity goodness. This is a light fruity cake, great for a snack, elegant for evening tea, different in so many ways. The bottom layer is basically the fresh fruit which gets cooked in a cakey batter, and the topping is a nice burst of dried fruit. Feel free to use what suits you, what you love!! The blogiverse is exciting and BIG! It’s fun to find new blogs, some…
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Strawberry & Chocolate Mac-a-Verrines …From no feet to sweet dreams … & Macarons too!
“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” Julia Child And my mac addiction continues. January has been a month of sneaking into the kitchen when all the world is asleep, grabbing that aging egg white lying questionably on the counter, and whipping it up. The saga goes on, macronage and failed feet again and again. What for?? For MacTweets of course, where Jamie and me are calling for Mac-a-Valentines for the month of January for MacAttack 4. I present my failures and success for this attack … my love for macarons!! Batch after batch, thankfully of single egg whites, seem to yield mixed results. I got…
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Indulgent & Delicious Strawberry Bavarian Cream Cake … for my daughter!
“When you make a cake, you truly express your desire to please the people you love, and show them how much you care.” Roland Meisner Time flies, and how! It’s was the daughter’s 14th birthday and as busy as every 2nd January has been since the day she was born. We barely recover from the kids New Year eve excitement, and there it is, her big day staring us in the face. What cake are you making for me she religiously asks the day before? This year the situation was different. There was a huge power grid failure and our entire region was gripped with dense fog. My cake plans…
