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31 Dec 2015

Honeycomb Frosting | Honeycomb Cake

Celebration cakes, Frostings 10 comments

I want to share a simple frosting technique for a celebration cake that I make often, which will look lovely on the finished cake. This is so easy to do and at the end you have a beautifully frosted cake! I do this quite often when I run out of time to do something elaborate. Plus, it hides all my flaws in frosting, so I love this trick!!

I first came across this method some years ago at Alexandra's Recipes and I immediately wanted to try this frosting. Now it's become very famous and you can find it all over the internet.
There are two ways to make this honeycomb frosting and I follow the method given by Alexandra and it's easy and simple. There is another way to do this (which I've mentioned in the notes), I find that to be a little complicated so this is how I do my honeycomb frosting.

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Nellikai Juice | Amla Juice

Amla, beverages, juice 4 comments

Do I need to stress the benefits of amla! This fruit is rich in Vitamin C and so good for immunity. It's also good for skin and hair. There are tons of other health benefits that you can look up in the internet but my mum makes this juice mostly for the purpose of immunity.
This is the way we make it at our home and you can make necessary changes to suit your taste.

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Thinai Chocolate | Foxtail Millet Chocolate

chocolate, Kids Special, Millet Recipes 2 comments

When I was wondering what to do with the remaining thinai (foxtail millet) flour, which was left over from making these thinai laddu, I came across this recipe and decided to make these chocolates.

Sometimes my kids ask for these Peppa Pig chocolates, so this time, I added the thinai flour and made chocolates for them. You do get the taste and feel of the thinai flour in your mouth but since it also has chocolate and nuts, kids don't mind eating them!

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Chocolate Apple Milkshake | Easy Milkshake Recipes

Apples, beverages, milk shakes No comments

Chocolate makes anything taste wonderful! Well, atleast to me! Instead of making the plain apple cinnamon milkshake, I added some chocolate flavor to it and it tasted absolutely yum! The apple makes this milkshake healthy and filling. Makes it good for breakfast or an evening drink for your kids.

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Double Chocolate Strawberry Muffins

chocolate, Chocolate cake, Cupcakes & Muffins, Strawberry Recipes 4 comments

If you're regular to my space, you must know my weakness for strawberries. I love this fruit and since the strawberries we get here are almost always too tart, I make some dessert out of it and enjoy.
This time when I had to visit my in laws, this is what I made for my nieces. This is an absolutely delicious muffin and the additional chocolate chips makes it too good! It's such a soft rich chocolate muffin with chunks of strawberries, you'll simply love it!

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Pineapple Milkshake | Easy Milkshake Recipes

beverages, milk shakes, Pineapple Recipes 4 comments

I love milkshakes, I keep making milkshakes with every fruit available. Pineapple milkshakes taste awesome and I love this milkshake a lot!

There is something to remember when using pineapples in milkshakes or bakes especially when the fruit comes in contact with dairy product. There is an enzyme called bromelain in pineapple which makes the end product taste bitter. There are times when I've made pineapple milkshakes and there was never a bitter taste. And there was one time when my milkshake turned really bitter. Sometimes, it turns bitter after a few hours. So it's advisable to scald the pineapples before using them.

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Masala Bread Toast | Savoury French Toast

Bread Recipes, Breakfast Recipes, Egg Recipes, Snacks 2 comments

This is a quick and easy breakfast/snack recipe that I make for my husband since he's not fond of the regular french toast. He prefers savoury to sweet so this is the bread toast version for him along with the baked egg toast.
Sometimes I add finely chopped veggies to the mix, change the masalas and make it more tasty and different each time. Adding masalas to the egg mixture always masks the smell of eggs.

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Avocado Milkshake | Butter Fruit Milkshake

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My husband bought some avocados and the first thing I thought of making was this milkshake! It turned out so creamy and yum that even my super fussy kids had some!
Avocado is also called as butter fruit and it is a very popular fruit loaded with goodness. It contains about 20 different vitamins and minerals and full of fibre. Avocado also reduces bad cholesterol and increases good cholesterol!
One of the most interesting info about avocado is that, it can be used in place of butter in bakes! I'm yet to try it out but it sounds very interesting!

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Chocolate Fruit Cake | Chocolate Christmas Cake Recipe

Bakes, Cakes, chocolate, Christmas Recipes, Fruit cake 7 comments

This year I made a boiled fruit cake for our prayer group and then I had to bake some other cake for my family and neighbours. But unfortunately I did not have any soaked fruits! Instead of sulking about it, I decided to go ahead and bake a cake. So I chopped my fruits and nuts and soaked them for about 18 hours and then I baked this cake. And I soaked with grape juice only!

This is such a fabulous cake! You don't really get the chocolate flavor but the chocolate definitely enhances the overall flavor of the cake. I'm sure if I had soaked my fruits longer or if I had used alcohol, this cake would have tasted even better!

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The cake is moist, soft and full of fruits and nuts. I did not soak the fruits ahead and I did not bast the cake with alcohol. I didn't even wait for 24 hours to cut this cake (which is what I normally do with fruit cakes), I cut this cut within 20 minutes of taking it out of the oven and still it tasted awesome! Ideally, the fruits for this cake should be soaked days earlier and the cake baked few days ahead of Christmas and then bast the cake with alcohol until you cut the cake. You will love the burst of flavor!

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Boiled Fruit Cake | Easy Christmas Cake

Cakes, Christmas Recipes, Fruit cake 4 comments

I never soaked fruits for this year's Christmas cake, mostly because of all the rain and floods in my city, I'm simply not in the mood to celebrate. Or maybe I was just lazy and procrastinated! I think it's a bit of both. Either way, I did not have soaked fruits for my cake.

So I decided to make a simple, easy, lazy Christmas cake. This cake is a really easy, simple, no fuss cake. But still the cake tastes awesome! Boiling the fruits increases the flavor tremendously making this a wonderful bake for Christmas.

I'm almost thinking of baking this cake every year! It's that tasty and soft and moist! Since it's so simple, I'm seriously tempted to make this my go to Christmas Cake!

The only time taken is to chop the fruits and waiting for the boiled fruits to cool down! I used what ever fruits I had at hand. Raisins, sultanas, dried apricot, dried figs, dates, cherries. I did not add any nuts, if you want to add, then don't boil the nuts. You can add it after the fruits have cooled down.