Ragi Chocolate Cake

Ragi Chocolate Cake is a wonderful dense cake made using millet flour and devoid of any gluten. This eggless cake, gluten free cake is a perfect snack when craving something chocolaty. It's quick to prepare and uses easily available ingredients.

Basbousa – Eid Special

This Eid ditch the usual favourites and give Basbousa a try! Basbousa is a popular Middle Eastern sweet made from Semolina. It has it's origins in Egypt but is very commonly prepared is homes as well as sold in local bakeries across the Middle East. Basbousa is cooked in a pan traditionally but these days…

Chocolate Almond Cookies

These Chocolate Almond cookies are your typical chewy cookies that give you a feeling of biting into a health bar. Given the amount of Almonds used the cookies are surely a good source of nutrition. We all learn from our mistakes and what's even better is converting those mistakes into delicious success! Something similar happened…

Sheermal – Oven & Tawa Method

Sheermal is a popular sweet, milk bread from Persia. The bread is round and thick but soft. It is midly sweet and high of flavour and fragrance. Preparing Sheermal at home is no big deal. Follow my recipe below to try it out.

Truffle Pound Cake

Truffle Pound Cake Today, I am sharing best recipe of pound cake which has been given a marble effect using chocolate truffle sauce. The addition of this sauce not only helps make the cake look good but also taste good.

Valentines Day Special – Heart Shaped Brownie with Strawberry Sauce

All set to treat your partner on Valentine's Day? Try out this Valentine Recipe of fudgy Brownie served with Fresh Strawberry Sauce. Strawberries are in season and of course they are the apt ingredient to bring in the colour of love - Red, in your dish.

Beetroot Brownies

Super moist and Fudgy ... these dense chocolate brownies that are enriched with beetroot are perfect for anytime indulgence.

Surti Butter – Indian Tea-time Biscuits

Surti Butter Biscuits are popular and highly relished Indian savoury biscuits. They are mostly enjoyed with a cup of hot chai or tea. Surti Butter biscuits are loaded with butter (hence the name) thus they have the perfect melt in the mouth feel and make a heavy snack. The biscuits are flavoured with jeera (cumin seeds) and also referred to as Jeera Biscuits.

Baklava

Baklava is a baked sweet which is made of Filo / Phyllo / Fillo pastry. It has endless layers of the pastry, nuts and butter soaked in sweet flavoured syrup.

Stained Glass Cookies – Christmas Special

Stained Glass Cookies - These pretty looking cookies caught my eye few months ago during my usual "blog inspiration" search. I knew instantly they would feature as my Christmas special recipe on the blog. And, here they are. The cookies are nothing but sugar cookies with a colorful center of crushed sugar candies. The soft…

Pista Badam Biscuits

Here's a recipe I learnt more than a decade ago and finally tried for Diwali this year. Pista Badam Biscuits are those typical melt-in the mouth kinda Indianised cookies loaded with nuts and with a hint of saffron, sold commonly at local Indian bakeries. The recipe is off my bakery journal from my IHM days.…

Mini Peanut Butter Cupcakes

The cupcakes are basic and light with chocolate beautifully complimenting the peanut butter flavour.  And so, Nabeel is currently enjoying his summer break in full swing, ensuring I am on my toes 24 hours, or at least till he is awake. His constant needs to play, eat, read, and have fun sucks out all my energy…

Homemade Cinnamon Rolls

Cinnamon is my favourite spice to use, when it comes to baking and these Cinnamon rolls have been on my to-do list since long. Having enjoyed them at many breakfast buffets during holidays the urge to bake them at home had just been growing. Finally, when I managed to get cream cheese I knew what…

Halloween Finger Cookies

Last weekend, as a part of the #WeekendCookingProject Nabeel and I baked some cookies..real creepy Halloween cookies. Halloween is few days away and the buzz created by the infinite Halloween events organised across the city encouraged me to have a little celebration of our own. It was also a good way of introducing this spooky…

Garlic Breadsticks – Dominos Style

The popular Garlic Breadsticks from Dominos are a favourite of Nabeel. We always end up ordering their dry, chewy, zero topping pizzas for the greed of breadsticks (because they don’t deliver unless you order pizzas). So, one fine Saturday afternoon when Nabeel yearned to dig into some hot breadsticks from Dominos and they refused to…

Demystifying the basics of bread making & WHOLE WHEAT BREAD LOAF recipe

Baking bread is not as scary as it is thought to be. Sharing some tips on how to bake the perfect bread. Also inside is a fool proof recipe of Whole Wheat Bread Loaf that you can try without any inhibitions.

Healthy Brown Rice and Vegetable Bake

I had participated in a Chef competition hosted by Burgundy Box and judged by Masterchef Ajay Chopra. The complete write up can be read here. Below is the recipe for the dish I whipped up for the event. Healthy Brown Rice n Vegetable Bake Serves – 2 Preparation time – 15minutes Cooking Time – 25minutes…

Spiced Potato Stuffed Sesame Buns

It’s that time of the year when I am scratching my head to figure out new flavours and food items to pack in Nabeel’s lunch box. I know it’s been only a month since school re-opened yet the regular Tiffin making activity has already started to get boring for me. So recently, during one of…

Popeye Pie

Most of my generation moms grew up watching Popeye – The Sailor and so were introduced to spinach very early and would not mind consuming it since Popeye did so and he could manage getting over any trouble. Sadly, our kids don’t know Popeye as he is taken over by the likes of Chotta Bheem…

Chocolate Chunk Cupcakes

Super Fluffy, light and a total treat for chocolate aficionado.