Cooking & Baking with Love
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.
This rich and creamy baked mac and cheese is a such a favorite with delicious flavorful achari cheese sauce and crunchy Vaghareli Rotli crumbs on top. It cannot get anymore desi or Indian-ish than that. Perfect for a comforting meal with familiar flavors that I …
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 …
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 …
Bhakharwadi is one of the popular snacks in some parts of India. It’s made with chickpea flour dough filled with spicy, sweet, savory, sour filling shaped into spirals and deep fried to perfection. The filling is made form coconut, sesame seeds, fennel seeds, spices toasted …
These easy Brown butter maple pecan scones are so delicious and melts in your mouth. They are filled with pecans and spices and glazed with brown butter maple syrup.
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.