Recipes From My Kitchen

These eggless peanut butter chocolate cookies are the best thing to happen in my kitchen for a while now. They’re so delicious and easy to bake. The cookie dough comes together in no time. The recipe calls for dark cocoa powder and for this I have used Indian Natives Absolute Dark Cocoa Powder . This Cocoa is grown in the farmlands located in the river banks of Anaimalai, Tamil Nadu. The farm is 100% pesticide free and organic and managed in a sustainable way. These cookies are chewy, easy to make, delicious, chocolaty, crisp on the edges, and most certainly addictive! The only patience-testing part of making these eggless peanut butter cookies is the resting period. I rested my dough in the for 30 mins. Don’t skip this step otherwise the cookies will spread too much in the oven. Ingredients: 75 gms butter, room temperature, 50 gms caster sugar​​, 50 gms brown sugar,​​ 65 gms peanut butter, 35 gms fresh cream, 3 gms vanilla, 3 gms salt, 1.5 gms baking s...

Microwave Eggless Chocolate Mug Cake is one of my new favourites. The beauty of this recipe is you will never have to worry that your sweet tooth will go unsatisfied again with a microwave cake you can make in minutes. This Microwave Eggless Chocolate Mug Cake could not be more authentic. Made from the usual suspects for a chocolate cake recipe — like flour, chocolate, butter, sugar etc — this decadent chocolate cake with that special soft texture is the perfect end to any day. Now instead of making a whole cake you can have just 1 serving in no time at all. And this cake batter can sit in its little mug in the fridge for up to 3 days, so you can enjoy a single-serving treat anytime! For this recipe, I have replaced the butter with olive oil and sugar with honey to make it a little guilt free. But feel free to retain it in its original form. Both ways it tastes awesome!  What is a mug cake? A cake that is made in a mug! It’s great because you don’t need to whip out a bunch o...

I have to upfront declare that I'm not an expert in bread baking. I have had multiple failed attempts in bread baking until I found this easy easy no knead bread recipe off the internet. The original recipe called for double the quantity of ingredients and some other things. However, I tweaked it a bit to our taste and liking with every attempt and eventually I have stuck to this tweaked recipe. It requires no kneading and uses no special ingredients, equipment or techniques. It takes very little effort — only time. You will need 24 hours to create the bread, but much of this is unattended waiting, a slow fermentation of the dough that results in a perfect loaf. This is just the simplest kind of bread you can make. You basically throw everything into a bowl and mix it up, then sit around, let the yeast do its work, and bake it. But it’s not just a bread for beginners — those who bake frequently also really love a no knead bread. The slow rise gives this bread great flavor, ...

So, today a month has passed since the New Year was born. Wow! Time passes by so soon. January was a super hectic month and I was zipping in and out of town. February also looks chocobloc already and I have some exciting things lined up for the readers. I have also announced the Baking classes in February. You can get more details on my Facebook page . I will be adding a few more courses soon. Stay tuned on that one!!! A few days back my BFF Arundati posted a picture of a gorgeous Chocochip Chocolate Cake , and I knew right away I had to make it. I mean look at it, its so drop dead gorgeous. The first time I made it, I felt that the cake can be made a little more moist. So the second time I made it, I made a slight teeny weeny change to her recipe. I replaced the butter with oil. Rest was just straight out of her blog, this is what I got. Its totally free of mess and its just so quick to make. Serves 8 Ingredients: 1 cup flour , 1/4 cup oil + 2 tbsp  but...

This banana bread comes from my friend who years ago borrowed this recipe from her friend's mother. They being Catholics, had this recipe passed down from their grandmother. Passed down from generations, this recipe is truly delicious and is a recipe for keeps. That’s the wonderful thing about sharing recipes, the more good recipes we share, the better we all get to eat! Being a self taught baker, trials are a part of me until I perfect a recipe or find that recipe that meets my expectation. I have tried other banana bread recipes earlier and some of them were disasters.  This banana bread meets my expectations to the core. Its soft and moist and the flavor of banana really comes through. I did make a change from the earlier time that I baked this. I added 1/2 cup of brown sugar instead of a complete 3/4 th cup of white sugar. This gave a beautiful rustic brown color to the bread. I also added 1/4 cup of blanched almonds. I wanted a little crunch and I always thought ...

If you love a soft warm, right out of the oven bread, then this focaccia bread recipe is a definite must-try. Not only is the focaccia itself amazingly delicious, but the fresh rosemary, garlic, and tomatoes also give it a ton of flavour. The combination is fabulous! Be warned — this bread is one of those recipes that is going to disappear if you make it. So make sure you aren't the only one home. Focaccia bread is especially addictive if you're dipping it in a lovely olive oil. If you have wanted to try your hand at making homemade bread, but the task sounds way too daunting, this focaccia bread recipe is a perfect get-started-with-making-bread recipe. Focaccia bread is a pretty forgiving bread recipe. Ingredients: 500gms plain flour , 1 tbsp salt, 1 tsp instant yeast , 250 ml water , 100 ml olive oil , 10-15 cloves of garlic , gently crushed 100 gms cherry tomatoes, 5-6 sprigs of rosemary, leaves removed Method: Follow the instructions on t...

IFBM organizers are making us go crazy by luring us with beautiful gifts to be won. And this time its Freedom Tree bakewares to be won. Check out their website. Their products are droolworthy, so full of life and so damn colorful!!! I can give an arm to get these goodies.  Their criteria was to bake some dish using corn. This is my entry to the Freedom Tree Baking Contest . I decided to make this delicious tart to compliment their gorgeous bakeware. This tart is very easy to bake and takes very less time to assemble it all together. If you have your pie dough ready, you could bake this in a giffy. You could also turn them into small tarts which could become a great canape recipe for a party. Ingredients: For the pastry: 375 gms plain flour , plus extra for dusting, 15 gms sugar, 225gms unsalted butter , cut into cubes, plus extra for greasing, 1 egg, 4 tbsp ice-cold water , For the filling: 1 medium sized tomato , thinly sliced, 1/4 cup fresh corn kernels ...

Frangipane is a filling made from or flavored with almonds. This filling can be used in a variety of ways including cakes, tarts and other assorted pastries. Originally designated as a custard tart flavored by almonds or pistachios it came later to designate a filling that could be used in a variety of confections and baked goods. Frangipane is one of France's many traditional foods associated with Christmas celebration. These days it is normally made of butter, sugar, eggs, and ground almonds. As you know that   KitchenAid India  has announced the  KitchenAid India Contest  in the IFBM meet , where we need to create a recipe using plums, I decided to make this tart with the Frangipane filling. Ingredients: For the pastry 375 gms plain flour, plus extra for dusting 15 gms sugar 225gms unsalted butter, cut into cubes, plus extra for greasing 1 egg 4 tbsp ice-cold water For the Frangipane 200gms unsalted butter 200gms caster sugar 2 eg...

I came across the Avid Baker's Challenge a few days back and was waiting for the month to begin so that I could participate in the challenge. For the month of March, Hanna chose Mushroom Cheddar Tart as the recipe.  Mushroom and Cheese in a tart! Can there be a better combination than this? No. The addition of cheese into the dough and into the tart mixture gives it such a nice taste. As per the original recipe, Parmesan cheese needed to be added to the dough. I didn't have Parmesan, so I added cheddar. It gave a very beautiful balance and sharp taste to the tart base. The original recipe used Hi-maize flour, which I didn't have. So I substituted it with the all purpose flour itself. Overall, it tasted so divine. The butter, cheese and ofcourse the mushrooms and red pepper, made an ideal combination together. They just burst in your mouth with loads of different flavors. The Avid Bakers are baking from the King Arthur Flour website this year. If you ...

A few weeks back, my very close friend visited me from Chennai. We were colleagues earlier and our friendship has just grown over the years. She and me share our date of birth. I don't know if it is to do with the DOB, but we think alike. We do have our share of disagreements, but give and take, we share a very beautiful friendship. So a few years back, she asked me what gift I would want, and I told her I wanted a nice cake stand. Over the years, we moved to different cities but she had the thought in her mind. She kept telling me at many instances that she is still waiting to gift me a cake stand. So this time, while she visited, she got me this beautiful cake stand. I just loved it!!! Its so beautiful :-) Don't you agree??? And what makes it beautiful is that its a gift out of pure friendship, respect and love. Thank you my friend :-) I love you :-) I decided to make this beautiful chocolate truffle cake to garnish this beautiful cake stand!!! Serves 12 Ingredie...