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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

Best Flaky Pastry Dough Recipe for your Pie Crust

All butter and flour give an incredible pastry dough. Check my best flaky pastry dough recipe – all homemade and nothing artificial. Use it for apple pies, meat pie or tarts.

If you live somewhere where you don’t find ready-made pastry dough in the supermarkets for your pies don’t get disheartened. You can always make it at home. You can’t believe how easy it is to make. All you need is butter, all-purpose flour and some cold water and voila it’s ready! Can you believe it, it’s that simple! Today I am sharing the best flaky pastry dough recipe that you can do at home under 20 minutes. It’s an all-butter pastry dough recipe you could use vegetable shortening too in case you want to go full vegan. Continue reading Best Flaky Pastry Dough Recipe for your Pie Crust

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

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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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

Spinach & Potato Breakfast Casserole

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The spinach and potato casserole is the perfect breakfast recipe with its doze of health and yum quotient. Spinach, Potato, sausages in creamy custard baked to golden perfection – perfect for breakfast or any time actually.

Hola friends, hope you are enjoying #BakingWithTina – my September Baking Challenge, where I am going to share 8 baking recipes. I don’t want to share only cake and cup cake recipes. We have always loved our baked foods in the house. And it all comes from my dad. I have told this earlier too, we always had loads of English food at home during my growing up years. My dad was a practicing surgeon in the UK, after his FRCS, and was there for about a decade. He brought back loads of these little recipes and we have always enjoyed them at home. My dad is a great cook BTW. Continue reading Spinach & Potato Breakfast Casserole

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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Old fashioned Chicken Stew

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The Old fashioned English chicken stew is the easiest chicken stew recipe you can make. Chicken, potatoes, carrots slow cooked in a buttery milk broth infused with aromatic sage.

There are some days when I want to make simple yet delicious dishes. These old fashioned chicken stew recipes have their own charm – they are easy to cook, just one pot meals with few ingredients but are so yum. You put everything together and forget about it for time. I like making these one pot recipes quite a lot because they are so much less hassle and saves a lot of time later for washing up. Continue reading Old fashioned Chicken Stew

Candied Fruit Loaf Cake or Tutti Fruti Cake

Every family has their favorite fruit cake. Fruit cakes or the tutti fruit cakes are such a staple in every household. This is a beginner’s cake recipe of a candied fruit cake added with almond meal.

When I was younger my mum, used to make this cake. She had her version of fruit cake with raisins and sultanas – golden brown slices of bliss. We mostly had that in the winters around Christmas.

A few days back while doing my grocery shopping I chanced upon these beautiful packs of multicolored candied fruits. I knew it at that moment that I need to recreate my mum’s fruit cake. This one is the simplest version of a dense moist loaf cake with candied fruits, almond meal and toasted almonds. This is so easy that if you are a beginner to baking cakes – you should start with this.

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