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Espresso Panna Cotta … sweet dreams are made of these
Espresso Panna Cotta. Smooth, silky, seductive with coffee written all over it, how can dessert be so indulgent. The simplest make ahead dessert ever!
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Dark Chocolate & Walnut Wholewheat Cake … a nostalgic favourite with jaggery & ‘top of the milk cream’ or ‘malai’
Dark Chocolate & Walnut Wholewheat Cake … a nostalgic favourite with 'top of the milk cream' or 'malai'. It brings back memories of the quintessential ‘malai’ or ‘top of the milk cream’ cakes…
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Orange Almond Cake {gluten free} … light, healthy, delicious
Orange Almond Cake {gluten free} … wafts of sweet almond with citrusy notes of orange float through the kitchen, virtually transporting you to the Mediterranean. One bite and you will find it hard…
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Wholegrain Lingonberry Thumbprint Cookies – with LumiaApptasting & World Feast by Vikas Khanna
“BE OPEN TO new thoughts, to new people, to new principles, to new ideas, to new experiences. “NEW” MAKES US GROW” Rossana Condoleo With the Chenin Blanc chilled just right and a good…
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Whole Grain Apple Crumble … fall in love with delicious dessert
The Whole Grain Apple Crumble is an autumn / winter dessert which is pure comfort food. Here's a version of the apple crumble gone healthy. Serve with some good quality vanilla ice cream,…
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Light Pumpkin Pie … pie that thinks it’s a cheesecake
“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.” Yogi Berra Light Pumpkin Pie. It’s difficult to not think pumpkin and get deluged by orange thoughts once fall is…
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Saffron Pistachio Indian Bread Pudding {eggless}
Rich, sweet, festive yet made with staple pantry ingredients, the Saffron Pistachio Indian Bread Pudding is a quintessential Indian dessert, kept light by toasting the bread. Feel free to play around with spices…
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Peaches & Cream Cake … light summer cake. Trifles too!
A light summery birthday cake, the crème patisserie lends a nice, deep flavour to the frosting on the Peaches & Cream Cake. Use fresh peaches or even apricots in season. The cake would…
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Phalsa Berry Sharbat – ‘Blendit’ like Vikas Khanna #summer #cooler #inseason
Refreshing, cooling and right for the Indian summer, the Phalsa Berry Sharbat is just what the doctor ordered! Sweet, tangy, uplifting, it's a summer cooler packer with vitamins and antioxidants.
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Wholewheat Almond Buttermilk Pound Cake … with almond cream & fresh strawberries
A healthier & delicious version of the pound cake, one that works with infinite combinations; a recipe never short on ideas! The good thing about the Wholewheat Almond Buttermilk Pound Cake is that…
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Multigrain Granola … breakfast o’clock!
Full of fibre, crisp, sweet, buttery too, this Multigrain Granola is sure to please! You can always substitute the butter for oil, and play around with different grains and nuts. Go ahead, make…
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Eggless Almond Honey Wholegrain Cookies … #comfortfood
Eggless Almond Honey Wholegrain Cookies offer deep delicious butterscotch flavour thanks to the brown sugar and butter. Almond meal adds interesting taste, and chocolate chips are thrown in to make another quintessential chocolate…
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Soda Bottle Openerwala, Cyberhub, Gurgaon … quaint, vibrant, delightful Parsi cuisine & culture
Soda Bottle Openerwala. It was love at first sight! Nostalgia embraces you the minute you walk in through the doors; rather a wave of nostalgia! The cheerful, cafe like exteriors already beckon curious…
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Roasted Red Bell Pepper Pesto … In season with bell peppers
Fire up your tastebuds with this simple and fingerlicking good Roasted Red Bell Pepper Pesto.
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Baking | Sinful Chocolate Cake with Dulce de Leche … chocolate + toffee = heavenly!
Chocolate and toffee are a pairing made in Dulce de leche heaven. This Chocolate Cake with Dulce de Leche makes a fab special occasion cake. It needs a little advance planning though, like…
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Smoked Indian Chicken Curry / Dhungaar-e-Dum ka Murgh … giveaway to end 2013
Simple, smoked, delicious Indian chicken curry that can be baked {or cooked on the stove top}. A do ahead marination ensures very little work just before serving. Serve over steamed rice, naan, etc…
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Irresistible Banoffee Pie from the Sood Family Cookbook … recipe & review
Rich, indulgent, addictive, this simple Banoffee Pie {banana + toffee} will win your heart over.
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Tropical Coconut Milk Rice Pudding … with dragon fruit & rambutans
The Indian rice pudding is traditionally a vegetarian, eggless dessert option. It's creamy with beautiful texture. Gluten free too. This version, the Tropical Coconut Milk Rice Pudding is a wonderful make ahead dessert…
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Red Berry Crumbles … Around the World with the Tadka Girls {a book review}
A bubbly dessert which is sweet, tart and even mildly spiced. This rustic red berry crumble is a melange of flavours and textures from Around the World with the Tadka Girls
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Whole Wheat Gingerbread Men … Christmas cookies with a heart
These 100% Whole Wheat Gingerbread Men bring cheer to the cookie platter and make for great gifts. They are crisp, sweet, spicy and keep well in an airtight container for 1-2 weeks in…
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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 ……
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Rainbow Cake for Pinktober … THINK PINK #birthday #pinktober
This is the absolute joy of a birthday cake. Despite it being a butter rich cake, with an indulgent buttercream frosting, the Rainbow Cake is a fantastic 'once in a while' baking adventure.…
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Mango Pastel de Tres Leches or Mango Three Milk Cake … Daring Bakers soak up cake!
Three-Milk Cake it is a super moist, light, airy and super delicious sponge cake soaked in the three kinds of milk (evaporated milk, condensed milk, and heavy cream). Tres Leches is a very…
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Phirni Custard with Mixed Fruits
An all time favourite dessert, this Indian rice pudding is a celebration of the earthy taste of basmati rice, saffron and a surprise element...canned fruits. You can serve it warm or chilled. This…
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Chocolate Cake & Coffee Patisserie Cream Trifles … a coffee high!
We loved these Chocolate Cake & Coffee Patisserie Cream Trifles too. LOVED! Deep coffee flavours, great pairing with chocolate, nice play of textures. The cake cubes soaked in a coffee syrup. A swirl…
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Green Bean Potato Salad
It's the passion, the energy, the enthusiasm, the free spirited and relaxed young chef who greets you. The emotions are infectious and before you know it, the charismatic Maurizio Raselli casts a spell…
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Ishrat Aunties Chicken Korma … simple finger licking good curry
Almost every Indian household has there own recipe, and this chicken korma / curry recipe comes from my mother's childhood friend from Meerut. It's simple, uses staple pantry ingredients...and leaves you wanting for…
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Chocolate Oat Walnut Brownies … Baking and other activities for the family this summer
A simple one bowl recipe, these Chocolate Oat Walnut Brownies are perfect for kids to make in the kitchen. Healthy, gluten-free and moist, this offers yet another yummy dimension to the ever loved…
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Cherry Frozen Yogurt … summer is for stone fruit #lovestonefruit
Refreshing and addictive, this is a great summer dessert or 'coolant'! Low on calories and high on taste, this cherry frozen yogurt will leave you asking for more ... and more!
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Swedish Prinsesstårta Cupcakes … Daring Bakers serve up royally delicious cakes!
Swedish Prinsesstårta Cupcakes... the best BEST cake we've eaten of late. Perfect balance of flavours, moist, flavourful, addictive good, non chocolate ... PERFECT!
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Simplest & Best Dark Chocolate Mousse {2 ingredient}… with balsamic fresh cherries
The dark chocolate mousse is fab on its own. Sensuous, smooth, satisfying, intense ... everything that good quality dark chocolate promises to be. Top it with balsamic fresh cherries and take it to…
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Raspberry Pistachio Roulade … Spring Roll? Errr Swiss Roll!
The Raspberry Pistachio Roulade captures the colours of spring nicely. It's light, refreshing, moist and quick to make. It's a nice make ahead simple homey dessert.
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Irish Creme Chocolate Cakes with an Irish Creme Caramel Sauce … Happy St Patrick’s Day
Irish Creme Chocolate Cakes to celebrate St Patrick's Day. What's not to love about these little rustic beauties! Happy St Patrick's Day!!
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Lamb & Beet Greens Calzones, Pies & Popovers …pizza dough 3 ways
Lamb & Beet Greens - Calzones, Pies & Popovers ...pizza dough three ways. One batch went a long way. Deliciously too with mince lamb and beet greens. We had calzones one day, pizza…
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Double Chocolate Strawberry Pavlovas … sweet indulgence!
The crisp exterior of meringues, the marshallow gooeyness of chocolate within make these Double Chocolate Strawberry Pavlovas a combination made in heaven. Dark chocolate, whipped cream and balsamic strawberries offer a stunning passionate…
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Tea Rose Fondant Cake … and a floral giveaway
A lighter version of the classic pound cake, the Tea Rose Fondant Cake is sandwiched with a light confetti butter cream. The buttermilk vanilla bean pound cake makes a delicious base for the…
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Christmas Fruit Cake with Garam Masala …. Joyeux Noel 2012
Christmas Fruit Cake with Garam Masala ... Rich, fruity, nutty and deeply flavoured fruit cake for Christmas. The flavours of garam masala lift it to new heights. This is a quick to make…
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Basque Lamb Stew … White Wine or Red? Surpisingly both!
With winter almost here, this Basque Lamb Stew seems like a good way to warm up ... robust, hearty, full of flavour. It's the time of the year when comfort food tops the…
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Empanada Gallega … Daring Bakers at their best!
Empanada is the kind of food that makes one go back to childhood. A bread-like dough that surrounds a filling with just about anything you can imagine, from mushrooms, mince and cheese. Or…
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Almond Chocolate Chip Cupcakes … and getting featured on Femina
‘Cupcakes on the go‘, healthy, requested quite often, good with frosting and good even without. The almond meal adds interesting texture and taste to them.
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Filled Pate a Choux Swans – Daring Bakers, Ugly Ducklings and Swans
Light as air pate a choux swans filled with a crème patisserie ... a beaitful Daring Bakers challenge}
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Rustic Peach ‘n Plum Summer Galette … moorish summer tart
A rustic dessert bursting with flavour and colour, full of all the fruity goodness that summer offers baked into a simple free form tart. Divine!
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Stone Fruit Crisps {Gluten Free}
An easy, quick dessert baked with seasonal stone fruit. It's quick to make and full of flavour; a summer classic which is gluten free too! Happy 4th of July!
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Coffee Vanilla Chocolate Chip Battenberg … Daring Bakers go ROYALE!
A simple, stunning and delicious traditional British cake. Wrapping it in dark chocolate plastique made it even more special!
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Macaron à la Peaches et Crème … Vacation Macs!
I'm back on board to get back in sync with the fun and beautiful Mac Attack Jamie and I host each month. This time our call was for Vacation Macs ... and how…
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Armenian Nutmeg Walnut Cake … the most delicious walnut tea cake!
An addictive, warm, spicy Armenian cake with pleasing overtones of nutmeg and walnut. Simple to make and rustic in appeal, it's a beautiful walnut tea cake to serve. We enjoyed it warm and…
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Saffron Caramel Panna Cotta
Perfect Spring dessert, the panna cotta came together like a beautiful dream, lilting, mesmerising, smooth, perfect, like a dream you didn't want to wake up from. The textures teased the palette and we…
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Savoury Dill Cheddar Buckwheat Sables … a spicy #baketogether
A savoury cookie that packs big-time flavor with a flaky, melt-in-your-mouth texture. Made with butter, cheese, flour and cayenne for a kick, these cheese crackers make for a lovely hors d’oeuvre to serve…
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Filipino Sans Rival Cake
This is an indulgent good cake. The nutty meringue complimented the rich vanilla buttercream beautifully, the meeting of textures delicious. Once layered and rested overnight, the now slightly chewy meringue and the satiny…
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Le Frasier … but with mangoes
Frasiers are said to be traditional French strawberry & cream dessert. In my case, I had to wander far from traditional as we are long past strawberry season here in India. Stone fruit…
