Cooking & Baking with Love
It’s Diwali week and I am sharing yet another Diwali special sweet. This time, its Kaju Katli. Kaju Katli is a an Indian mithai or sweet, that taste like candy. The thin diamond shaped katli adorned with edible silver can impress anyone. It’s simplest of …
Peda is the popular and very traditional mithai recipe from India. It’s usually made from Khoya but in States, I prefer it with milk powder. It’s made from very few ingredients like milk powder, milk, sugar, and cardamom powder. In the festive mood, I decided …
These easy paan thumbprint cookies are so delicious and so fun to make for Indian festivals like Diwali. I cannot stop eating them. A perfect eggless sugar cookie base made using paan/betelnut leaves and filled with rose petal jam or Gulkand. It is a must …
This cake is inspired from Indian dessert Sooji ka Halwa or Gujarati’s call it ‘Sheero’. In India, every part makes a different variation of Sheero. Gujarati’s make it lighter in color and use milk. While in Northern parts of India, they make it darker or …
The most delicious apple cake for morning breakfast or serve it as dessert. What is the best part of a crumb cake? Crumb topping! I disliked crumb cake for so long, until I tried a coffee crumb cake and start liking it. Do often like a …
These peanut ladoos are made with just four ingredients and they come together in no time. Nutty peanuts, ghee, sweetness from sugar and nutty sweetness from chestnut flour which is a bonus ingredient. Chestnut flour is gluten free and much more nutritious.
Rajgira Sheero or halwa is a gluten free dessert usually prepared and consumed during the months of fasting. Rajgira is known as Amaranth grains in English. This sheero is so quick to make, taste too nutty and has very few ingredients. Every now and then, …
Zucchini Halwa Cake recipe lives up to the name, it has the most delicious flavor of ghee, cardamom, and creaminess from milk. Easy to make and full of fresh zucchini. Its soft and perfect teatime snack or top it off with crème fraiche or whipped …
Zucchini Halwa is an adaptation of lauki halwa or dudhi halwa. Zucchini halwa is an Indian sweet or mithai made with bottle gourd or opo squash, whole milk, ghee, sugar and flavored with cardamom and garnished with nuts. Two most popular halwa are carrot or …
Cherry and Chocolate Semifreddo is a light, creamy frozen dessert that taste like frozen mousse, it’s made with heavy cream, condensed milk and mascarpone cheese with cherries and chocolate shards. Literally made with 4-5 ingredients.