Tres Leches Cake
A tres leches cake, or pastel tres leches, is a sponge cake soaked in three different kinds of milk. This cake is popular in Latin America. It is really a delicious dessert and we can add Dulce de leche and it is called Cuatro leches (four milk) cake. Thanks to my friend Pari who made this cake for us. OMG!! Believe me it is “The Best”..It is really very simple and very easy to make. Try this dessert and you will die for this :). Time of Preparation : 1 hr 15 minutes + overnight refrigeration No of Servings : 20 Ingredients: For the cake : All purpose flour (Maida) – 2 cups Baking powder – 1 1/2 tsp Salt – 1/2 tsp Sugar – 1 1/2 cup Eggs – 4 Vanilla Extract – 1 1/2 tsp Skimmed Milk...
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Butter Cookies with Strawberry Jam
Butter cookies are delicious and simple to make. It’s one of my all time favorite snack and now I get to make them on my own and enjoy it. You can prepare the dough and shape them however you like. Today I have rolled them and cut it into round shape cookies and topped it with strawberry jam. You can top it with any of your favorite jam or glazing or cream. Perfectly baked cookies have crispy edges and tender on the inside with mild sweetness and buttery on every bite. Here you go… Preparation time:45 mins No. of servings: 16 cookies Ingredients: All purpose flour – 2 cups Fresh Rosemary – 1 tbsp (optional) Sugar – 1/2 cup Baking powder – 2 tsp Butter – 6 tbsp Salt – 1/4 tsp Vanilla extract – 1 tsp Heavy cream...
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Spinach and Artichoke Souffle
Souffle is a light and fluffy baked dish consisting of stiffly beaten egg whites and other ingredients along with egg yolks. It can be a main dish or a dessert. The beaten egg whites makes it puffy and lift up. Today I am sharing the recipe for Spinach and Artichoke Souffle. This is one of my all time favorite dish inspired by Panera Bread Company, a chain of bakery-cafe. Whenever I take a bite, I have always wondered how can a dish be so wonderfully prepared. I learnt to make souffle from a cookbook and tried it. It turned out so good. Here you go… Preparation time: 60 minutes No. of Servings: 7 Spice level: 2.5 Ingredients: Grated parmesan cheese or bread crumbs – 1/2 cup (for dusting) Thick Bechamel sauce – 1 1/2 cups (recipe below) Salt –...
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Baked Jalapeno Poppers
Jalapeno Poppers is a wonderful appetizer for any party. I made this recently for the Super Bowl party. My husband and my friends liked it very much. I came across this wonderful recipe from SkinnyTaste when I was looking for a new and tasty appetizer in the internet. The main ingredients used are low fat and hence it is suitable for diet/weight watchers too. Here you go… Remember not to touch your eyes or lips while or after handling the Jalapenos. Or you can wear gloves and work. Preparation time: 60 to 70 minutes Spice level: 4 out of 5 No. of servings: 8 to 10 Ingredients: Jalapeno peppers – 10 Light cream cheese – 1/2 cup Low fat shredded cheddar cheese – 4 tbsp Green onions – 4 Egg whites or egg beaters – 1/2 cup Panko crumbs –...
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Veggie Pizza
We all know Pizza is an oven baked, flat, round bread topped with tomato sauce,cheese and various other toppings like vegetables, chicken, fruits, pepperoni, etc. If you have a party at home Pizza is the easiest and best thing to make and is loved by kids to adults. You can make pizza dough at home or you can also buy it. It is available in most of the grocery shop in the United States. For those who want to make it from the base, I have given you the recipe. Here you go… Preparation time: 20 minutes No. of servings: 3 Spice level: 3.5 out of 5 Ingredients: Wheat flour or All purpose flour – 2 cups Yeast – 1/2 pack Oil – 1/4 cup (preferably olive oil) Salt – 1/4 tsp (adjust to taste) Plastic wrap Pizza sauce –...
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Homemade Chocolate Cake
I wanted to make a cake for my husband’s birthday. I was searching for a simple cake recipe and I got this yummy cake recipe from my friend Sajana. I tried this chocolate cake and it came out well. Here is the recipe for an easy and delicious dessert. Preparation time : 45 minutes Ingredients 1: Sugar – 2 cups All purpose flour – 1 3/4 cup Cocoa – 3/4 cup Baking powder – 1 1/2 tsp Baking soda – 1 1/2 tsp Salt – 1 tsp Chocolate chips – 1/2 cup Cashews broken – 1/2 cup Ingredients 2: Eggs – 2 Milk – 1 cup Oil – 1/2 cup Vanilla extract – 2 tsp Water – 1 cup Method of Preparation: Mix all the ingredients 1 in a wide vessel. Beat the eggs and add all other ingredients...
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Eggplant Parmigiana
From Wikipedia: Parmigiana or eggplant parmigiana (Italian: melanzane alla parmigiana or parmigiana di melanzane) is a Southern Italian dish made with shallow fried eggplant (aubergine) slices layered with cheese and tomato sauce, then baked. In some versions, the eggplant slices are first dipped in beaten eggs and dredged in flour or breadcrumbs before frying. Some recipes use hard grated cheeses such as Parmesan or Pecorino Romano, while others use softer melting cheeses like Mozzarella or Caciocavallo, or a combination of these. Ingredients: Big eggplant – 1 Italian seasoned bread crumbs – 2 cups [Substitute: 2 cups bread crumbs, 1/2 tsp dried thyme, 1/4 tsp dried oregano, 1/4 tsp dried marjoram] All purpose flour or Maida – 1 cup Eggs – 3 Spaghetti sauce – 1 large can Mozzarella cheese – 8 oz Parmesan cheese – 1/4 cup Fresh basil...
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Macaroni and Cheese
Macaroni and Cheese also called Mac and Cheese is a well known dish and also a favorite dish among kids. Who doesn’t love cheese, specially kids? But if you are health conscious you can substitute some of the high calorie ingredients with low fat or non fat ones such as milk with skim milk and cheese with low fat cheese. It is always good to eat home made dishes, especially when it comes to high calorie food as we are aware of what we throw in and alter them if we need. I am not against outside food but I would prefer home food. Again I adapted this dish from Food Network and altered it a bit here and there to my style. Here you go… Preparation time: 60 minutes Spice level: 2 out of 5 No. of servings:...
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Blueberry Scones with Vanilla Glaze
My friend Shriya introduced me to Blueberry Scones when I was not a big fan of Blueberry. From then I became a huge fan of scones and blueberries. I adapted this wonderful recipe from Food Network and made a few changes to it. It is so simple to make yet an yummy snack. I felt that there was less sweet in the scones and I made this Vanilla Glaze to increase the sweetness. Here you go… Preparation time: 35 minutes Spice level: 0 No. of servings: 8 Ingredients: All purpose flour – 2 cups Confectioner’s sugar – 1/2 cup Baking powder – 1 tbsp Unsalted butter – 5 tbsp Heavy cream or milk- 1 cup (I used 2% milk) Salt – 1/4 tsp Egg – 1 Fresh Blueberries – 3/4 cup For Glaze: Confectioner’s sugar – 1 cup Milk...
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Crunchy Almond Muffins
Muffins are simple to make and are delicious to eat. There are variety of flavors of muffins. I love muffins because they are not as sweet as cup cakes. I was craving for muffins for the past few days. I finally thought I should try something new and I tried this Crunchy Almond Muffin and it was yummy. Surprisingly even my husband who is not a big fan of sweets loved it. Here you go… Ingredients: French vanilla cake mix – 1 1/2 cup Eggs – 2 Vegetable oil – 1/4 cup All purpose flour (or maida) – 1/4 cup Brown sugar – 4 tbsp Granulated sugar – 4 tbsp Ground Cinnamon – a pinch Unsalted butter – 2 tbsp Slivered almonds – 1/4 cup Method of Preparation: Preheat oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit. In a mixing bowl add...
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Peanut Butter and Chocolate Frosted Cupcakes
Cupcake has to be the perfect comfort food for a person of any age. Even though I’ve had Cupcakes before I kind of got hooked on to it bad, because of an ex-coworker. She used to make Cupcakes and bring in to work so often that I started craving for it all the time. This is the first time am trying Cupcake and I was a little nervous until I was done with the whole baking. If the pictures are any clue the Cupcakes turned out very well indeed. I did have a hard time with the peanut butter and chocolate frosting to look good for the pictures, but after a few tries they came out okay. Ingredients: Vanilla Cupcakes: All purpose flour : 3 cups Baking powder : 2 tsp Vanilla extract : 2 tsp Milk : 1...
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Rigatoni Spinach Pasta
I adapted this recipe from food channel. My husband and myself recently become very addicted to Italian food. We’ve had a party at our home and I planned to prepare totally different kind of dishes on that day. I used to watch Food TV whenever I get time. I found this recipe and most likely the combination of spinach and pasta is very interesting, so I made this spinach rigatoni pasta for the party and it was a sooper dooper hit. Everyone loved it. It is easy to make too. Ingredients: Rigatoni Pasta : 1 lb Olive oil : 1 tbsp Unsalted Butter : 1/2 stick Shallot : 1 (large) minced Mozarella cheese : 1/2 lb Garlic : 2 cloves (Pressed) All purpose flour : 1/4 cup Milk : 1 1/2 cups Ground Nutmeg powder : 1/4 tsp Ricotto...
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Chocolate cake
Chocolate cake is one of my favorite cake. And I got a chance to try this for my friend’s birthday. I used the ready made mix. To bake home made base cake, check here. I made a couple of layers of chocolate cake and filled it with chocolate icing. It was all chocolatty and rich! Here you go… Ingredients: Chocolate cake mix – 1 pack Semi sweet chocolate chips – 12 0z pack Chocolate fudge icing – 1 small tin Heavy whipping cream – 1 cup Sugar – 2 tbsp Water – 1 cup Method of Preparation: Prepare the batter according to the instructions given on the cake mix pack or check here to make home made base cake. Divide the batter into two portions and bake the cake in two baking pans of same size. This is for...
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Pineapple Cake
This Pineapple Cake is a wonderful juicy two layered cake, with whipped cream frosting and a few pineapples chunks and maraschino cherries. Yesterday was my First Wedding Anniversary. So I wanted to surprise my hubby with his favorite cake. Both of us love the Pineapple Cake from La Bonne Bouchee, a popular French cake shop here. I thought I can order it from there. But then, it’ll always be special if we bake it for them with right? So I decided to search for a good recipe and I took a few tips from VahvrehVah. I made a two layered heart shaped cake. For that I used two baking trays of 13 by 9 inche. You can do any shape of your choice. First I made the base cake and then cut it into two heart shape layers. You can...
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Black Forest Cherry Torte – Black Forest Cake
Cake, when you hear the word, you can imagine all the mouth watering cream and toppings blended with the soft layers of the spongy cake. Black Forest Cherry Torte (torte is the German word for cake) is one of the popular German dessert. It is a chocolate layer cake with whipped cream, cherries and chocolate curls. The cake is further decorated with whipped cream, cherries and chocolate shavings. It is a pure heaven when it melts in your mouth. This is the first cake I have ever baked in my life and I am so happy that the output was good. I made this wonderful cake for my friend Satish’s birthday. Satish is my one of my best friend and luckily we happened to stay in the same city and he stay very close to my house. This was...
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Banana Bread Recipe
I have a special place for banana bread because this is the first recipe that got me in to baking. Banana bread makes an excellent snack to go with evening tea or coffee or even as dessert. I have adapted this recipe from epicurious and added a little bit of my style in it. If you do try this recipe I would love to know how it turns out . This is a great beginner baking recipe if you would like to wet your feet in the wonderful world of baking. Ingredients: All purpose flour :11/2 cups Baking Powder : 1tsp Baking soda : 1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon : 3/4 tsp Granulated sugar : 3/4 cup Unsalted butter (at room temperature) : 2 tbsps Egg white : 1 (large) Whole Egg : 1(large) Banana Puree : 1 cup (...
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Vegetable Puff
This is our 100th post. I am happy to submit this recipe and would like to dedicate it to my friend Shriya. During our college days, we used to go to one of our favorite bakery for puffs and samosa. It’s so nostalgic to think about those wonderful days… I am really happy to share this simple recipe with you all. Ingredients: Pastry sheet – 1 pack Medium size potato – 1 (cooked and mashed) Green chilly -1 Green Peas – 3 tbsp Onion – 1/2 cup Coriander leaves – a few Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp Cumin seeds – 1 tsp Red chilly powder – 1/2 tsp Garam masala – 1/4 tsp Oil – 2 tsp Egg white from one egg Salt to taste Method of Preparation: Preparation of Masala: Pastry sheets are available in most...
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