Archive for Cakes

One egg chocolate cake

This is a Chef Rahat’s recipe and one of the best cake recipes you must have ever tried. The name says it all, as with just ONE egg, you get a whole 8 inches round cake. Ain’t that grand or what?
Don’t fret seeing the amount of raising agents used in this cake, just [...]

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Mocha butterfly cupcakes

The combination of chocolate and coffee is known as “mocha”. These mocha butterfly cakes are filled with Butter Icing and dusted with icing sugar.
Made these for my daughter’s 2nd birthday party last November

All you need>>>
Butter———————– 4 oz or 100g, softened
Light brown sugar——– 4 oz or 100g
Eggs————————- 2
Coffee———————– 1 1/2 tsp granules or powder
Flour———————— [...]

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Doughnuts

In every country that makes bread, there arises a question of what to do with the leftover scraps of dough. In England, they dropped the bits into soup or water, and made dumplings. But in Holland and in Germany, cooks dropped the extra into boiling oil, and made fry-cakes, or olie-koecken. The Dutch fancied up [...]

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No bake Cheesecake

Anika on Masala TV made this recipe in her program “Temptations”. Since, I’ve always been a huge fan of cheesecake, but never really got hold of an authentic recipe, and as they say, “out of sight, out of mind”.
I was chilling at my mom’s place when her program aired on Masala TV. Now I wanted [...]

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Chocolate Fudge Frosting

In my quest to find that oh-so-heavenly chocolate fudge icing, this one was the champion, the savior and sinfully irresistible. And all thanks to my cousin Masturah for giving it to me. I wanted a one which would not be too hard like royal icing and not too soft like fresh cream icing so this [...]

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My rainbow cupcakes

God when i first saw them, a couple of months back, i wondered when i earth would i get my chance to bake these little beauties. Love at first sight, you can say.
And finally today, i got the chance to make some of these rainbow cupcakes myself. They still need an icing, but they just [...]

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Chocolate Chip Muffins

I’ve been trying to make those soft, light not too hassle chocolate muffins but, one way or the other just couldn’t get my hands on the perfect recipe to suit my standards hehe no seriously! Because they are quick, easy and hassle free and what you get is soft and fluffy, deep and [...]

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Chocolate biscuit cakes

I’ve now made these, chocolate bits from heaven, thrice this week and once last week. I made it first time for my college friends get together and then next time, when my husband asked me to.  And then again and again for my sister-in-law’s tea party. The best thing about them is that [...]

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Molten Chocolate lava cake

I always wanted to bake these lovely chocolate volcanoes. I even gave them a try but maybe the oven was too hot or maybe i let them set in the oven for too long or God knows what. But they weren’t runny from inside, as they are supposed to be. The lava cake missed it’s [...]

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Caster sugar

If you’re wondering what in earth is Castor sugar, then my friend you have come to the right place, don’t fret!. First of all, Caster and Castor are the same so, don’t let it get to you
Now-a-days Castor sugar is readily available in the market. But why waste your money on this simple [...]

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