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Banana Chocolate Bites – No bake Quick Easy Dessert Recipe

Craving chocolate? Yet you want to eat healthy? Your kid doesn’t want a fruit but says yay for chocolate? Get both of them together and make these easy Banana Chocolate Bites with just two ingredients!

Do you enjoy fruits with a twist? I do. Why not jazz up the plain old banana and bring out creativity? Right now I am swooning over banana because it is such a versatile fruit. You can use it up in desserts in so many ways. You want to go vegan in baking use up mashed bananas, you want a dairy free ice cream use bananas! Exciting, isn’t it? Well, I am going to have such a dairy free ice cream recipe too this April. So keep watching this space. For now, we are talking Banana Chocolate Bites. I am all for easy dessert recipes. Continue reading Banana Chocolate Bites – No bake Quick Easy Dessert Recipe

A for Apple Hand Pie – Baked Golden Goodness

This Easy Apple Hand Pie Recipe is the quickest way to enjoy a damn good individual no-nonsense apple pie. Made with home-made pastry crust this Apple Hand Pie is gorgeous, quick and easy.

Hello there, hope you are doing great as we commence into this year’s A to Z Challenge. As I told you in my last post I am going to do a Dessert A Day Challenge where I am going to share 26 lip-smacking yet easy dessert recipes throughout April. It’s all going to be a lot of fun – dessert recipes from A to Z! So what do I have on the very first day for A. What do you learn first in your kindergarten – A for Apple B for Banana – I am sticking to that and I do have A for Apple today! I’m going to share an Easy Apple Hand Pie Recipe today which is fresh, quick, homemade and very easy to make. You need fewer ingredients and you can make it ahead if you are serving the hand pies at a tea party. I like this Easy Apple Hand Pie Recipe because they are individual pies, they are rustic and you don’t have to spend much time in decorating them. So let’s find out how we make our Apple Hand Pies. Continue reading A for Apple Hand Pie – Baked Golden Goodness

Carrot Halwa with milk solids | Gajar ka halwa with Khoya Kheer

Carrot halwa or gajar ka halwa is a traditional Indian dessert recipe made with grated carrots, sugar, milk solids and loads of dry fruits. Learn how to make carrot halwa or gajar ka halwa the easiest and quickest way.

I have been trying to put up a post for a long time, but I am facing some tech issue on the site which I am yet to fix. Sometimes the extra work that you need to do keep the site running can be daunting! But you know there’s always a dessert to lighten the mood.

I have been making multiple batches of carrot halwa lately because both the men in the house has taken a liking to it. The little one specially has become very fond of it. Winters is the season for these gorgeous red carrots which we also call ‘Dilli ka gajar’ or Gajar from Delhi. It’s probably one of the easiest Indian dessert recipes you can find. Its fast, its easy and its super-duper yum. Continue reading Carrot Halwa with milk solids | Gajar ka halwa with Khoya Kheer

Holiday Fruit Cake | Guest Post to Shalini Nair

This Christmas Fruitcake is a traditional English Recipe with twists of almond and exotic dried fruits soaked and loaded with brandy. Baked in low heat this is perfect for holidays, Christmas or just any time of the year.

Hello guys, I have been slacking a lot lately. I don’t know why. And I don’t know how to break this slumber. My phone is full of food photos which I can’t seem to sit down and edit and write a damn post! Some time back my wonderful fellow food blogger Shalini from Something is Cooking asked me to do a guest post on her blog. I was in Kolkata at that time and it was the perfect time for baking something for the holidays. And baking something in vacation with a toddler around is a task in itself. And then you have my mum who restricts me from visiting the kitchen even now! But then I am thankful to her because I did the effort to get the photos and post ready. Continue reading Holiday Fruit Cake | Guest Post to Shalini Nair

Marble Cake with White & Dark Chocolate

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This Marble Cake with Chocolate makes its super moist and super yum than the regular cakes with cocoa powder. White Chocolate and Dark Chocolate makes it delicious. Included an eggless recipe too.

Hello beautiful people. It was my son’s 14 month birthday this 28^th and I decided to make this Marble Cake with chocolate for him. Yes you can officially call us crazy that we celebrate every month. I do it because it’s an excuse to bake and try out new recipes, and I am spoiling him. It’s okay to spoil your kid when they are little. Disciplined life can wait till he’s three or may be four!! Continue reading Marble Cake with White & Dark Chocolate

Whole Wheat & Oatmeal Eggless Digestive Biscuits

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These whole wheat oatmeal cookies are healthy, crispy and baked to golden perfection. They are completely egg less and have no refined flour. Learn how to make whole wheat oatmeal digestive biscuits.

I have been getting a lot of requests for eggless baking. I generally prefer baking with egg – because it gives a rich taste. But there are many ways you can substitute egg with other vegan ingredients. I’ll probably make an infographic with the quantities some time later and share. These cookies however, are super healthy and super easy to bake. They don’t have any refined flour so you will have all the goodness of whole wheat and oats. They are ready under 45 minutes from start to finish including the resting time for the dough. If you want to learn how to make whole wheat oatmeal cookies, or what we generally call in India digestive biscuits this is probably the easiest recipe you can get. These are very similar to the Graham Crackers that you get in the US.

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Funfetti Vanilla Birthday Cake with Butter Cream Frosting

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This homemade white vanilla funfetti cake with butter cream frosting is the easiest DIY birthday cake that you can make. Rustic, easy and homely.

My son turned one this July and I was pretty clear I wanted to bake him his cake. I have been making eggless dessert cakes for him for all his month birthdays that we celebrated (yeah we celebrated every month on the 28^th). The pediatrician we consulted that time insisted not to have any form of egg (or non-vegetarian item, for that matter) in his food! [I bit weird, I felt]. So this is the first full-fledged real cake that he had. This was also his smash cake. And it was gone in no time! Continue reading Funfetti Vanilla Birthday Cake with Butter Cream Frosting

Mini Apple Pie

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These single serve versions of apple pies are cute warm and easy to serve. You can pack the mini apple pie in lunch box or enjoy it with a cup of coffee. Learn how to make mini apple pie.

People in my house are very happy this month for all the baking happening. There are casseroles, muffins, cookies, baked chicken – yes the one and a half men in the house are getting pampered. Now, some of you requested for eggless baking recipes and here I am sharing Mini Apple Pie recipe – completely eggless! So all you vegan friends, this one’s for you – enjoy some eggless mini apple pie.

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Fruity Bread and Butter Pudding

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This Fruity Bread and Butter Pudding is nothing traditional – it has a good dose of caramelized apples, gorgeous black currants and dollops of blueberry preserve.

I am in love with the word DESSERT. You have a dessert – any kind in the vicinity and I am not there is just not possible. I am specially fond of warm desserts – they are like my comfort dessert. Indro loves bread and butter pudding and we make tons of versions of the good old bread and butter pudding. We make it with chocolates even! Maybe, I’ll share that recipe someday. Continue reading Fruity Bread and Butter Pudding

Chocolate Chips Muffin

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These Chocolate Chip Muffins are moist, loaded with yummy chocolate chips. They are easy to make yet so very sinful.

Hola People so there’s a lot going on with the blog lately. I didn’t post last week because I was preparing for my September Baking Challenge. Didn’t I tell you already? Okay I am taking part in a month long blogging challenge – The #MyFriendAlexa activity in association with BlogChatter. To keep things short – I’ll be posting 8 recipes this month and my challenge hashtag is #BakingWithTina. You can search with this hashtag on Twitter and Instagram for all the posts this month – if you have not followed me already, do that now!

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