Cooking & Baking with Love
This polenta cake with tender texture and summer strawberries is a great cake for snacking, or even for an indulgent breakfast or brunch. It has a hearty, rustic texture due to the cornmeal and ground almonds and is topped with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.
These Phyllo stuffed with gujiya parcels are my take on traditional Gujiya. A crisp flaky baked pastry stuffed with sweet khoya or mawa, coconut and dry fruits. A popular Indian sweet specially made during the Holi festival.
This blood orange cake is filled with juice and zest from blood oranges and topped with sweet, candied blood orange slices and chopped pistachios. Cake has delicious crumb, is moist and flavor, tangy aroma of blood oranges. Perfect with a cup of coffee or latte! …
A simple eggless chocolate mousse cake with a surprise center bursting with raspberry flavors. These mousse cakes are inspired from the little entremets cakes and super easy and fun to make. Impress your loved ones with this chocolate and raspberry dome cakes.
Gajar Halwa is such a classic winter Indian sweet specially made during winters months! It is made with carrots, ghee, milk, sugar and cardamom! Every year when winter season is official, then you would start seeing gajar halwa being prepared at every household. Winter is …
Festive almond shortbread cookies filled with mango curd and dusted with confectioners’ sugar perfect for your holiday table.
These Pinwheels black sesame cookies are inspired by the Indian energy bars or winter specialty called Kachariyu. These festive spiral cookies are perfect for holiday season. Sweet, buttery and nuttiness from black sesame is what makes them so delicious.
Chewy Soft Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars are baked in pan with lots of chocolate and pecans. These are soft and buttery. The recipe comes together in 15 minutes, and you only need a bowl, no mixer or anything else is required. The best part is …
Pista Kaju Roll or Kaju Pista Roll is an Indian mithai very popular during Diwali. It’s made from cashews and pistachios. I added a twist to these rolls by adding raspberry powder to the cashew dough and rolled inside pistachio dough, adorned with edible silver …
Fada Lapsi, a perfect festive sweet dish prepared by mostly Gujarati’s during festive season, for housewarming or for any religious occasion. It’s made from cracked wheat. Ghee, sugar or Jaggery, and like every other Indian dish flavored with cardamom.