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Baked Ricotta Cashewnut And Cardamom Cupcakes

July 24, 2009

I have been entertaining the idea of experimenting with an unusual blend of ingredients for a light cupcake sans frosting. Yesterday, I took the idea to paper, scribbling an ingredient list and mentally adjusting

Tagged: | baking, cake, cardamom, cashewnut, cheese, cupcake, egg-free, ricotta, sweet

Chocolate And Date Fudge Brownies

June 27, 2009

These days everyone wants Bill Granger in their kitchen proclaims Sydney morning Herald. And I don’t blame them. This widely known Aussie chef has grown and matured into this masterful writer and creator of

Tagged: | baking, brown, brownie, chocolate, date, fruit, fudge, sweet

Sweet Olive Oil Lemon Fingers

June 15, 2009

Browsing through June’s issue of BBC’s Good Food Australia magazine, I came across a recipe for Sweet Lemon Fingers. Now this magazine is a branch off the acclaimed British magazine by the same name and

Tagged: | baking, fruit, lemon, olive, slice, sweet, yellow

Chocolate And Raspberry Strudel For NTTC May 2009

May 31, 2009

May has whizzed me by and I have indeed had No Time To Cook, so it is but apt to not only manage to squeeze in a 10 minute chocolate dessert recipe for NTTC

Tagged: | baking, bistro, chocolate, nttc, pastry, raspberry, sweet

Apple Fig And Craisin Strudel Daring Bakers May 2009

May 28, 2009

It took me a whole year of skeedaddling [is that even a word?] to finally get over my apprehension of actually participating in a Daring Baker’s Challenge [they always pick such elaborate difficult recipes

Tagged: | apple, baking, bistro, fig, pastry, strudel, sweet

Rose Petal And Coconut Fudge

May 20, 2009

I have a few roses popping up in my garden every now and then as the weather turns cooler. And I have plenty of odd and end uses for the rose petals. I use

Tagged: | coconut, dairy, fudge, natural, nuts, pink, rose, sweet

5-minute Microwave Besan Laddoos

September 26, 2007

Besan Laddoos are one of the easiest Indian sweets to make. If they are easy to make on the cooktop, imagine the ease in a microwave. Nick loves them and I have never made

Tagged: | dessert, indian, microwave, nttc, sweet

Simple And Awesome Homemade Gulab Jamuns

March 10, 2007

When I was in Singapore, several tins of Haldiram’s Gulab Jamuns used to be a staple of my pantry, courtesy of the amazing "Mustafa Mall" in Little India. There was no Indian food item too

Tagged: | dessert, indian, sweet

Gajar Ka Halwa – Indian Carrot Pudding

July 4, 2006

Gajar Ka Halwa brings to mind little ornate steel bowls full of delicious, moist, beautifully textured carrot pudding garnished with slivered nuts and silver foil [varakh]. Hot … Of course, fresh off the stove!! The

Tagged: | carrot, dessert, indian, microwave, pudding, sweet, vegetarian