…seepage when placed in the water bath i.e. place the filled cake pan in a baking tray. Fill the baking tray with hot water; to cover about an inch of the cake pan. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 150C for an hour. To avoid overbrowning of the cake; cover the top of the cake with a piece of foil. After baking, do not remove the cake out immediately but leave the door of the oven slightly ajar for about 8-10 minutes. Wear oven mittens and then remove…
…. Line a baking tray with parchment paper. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking pwd., baking soda, salt, sugar & lime zest. Add cubed butter & use a knife or pastry blender to cut it into the dry ingredients until the butter is the size of small peas. Add yoghurt/curds, craisins & stir with a wooden spoon gently until just combined. Do not over mix. Bring the mix together into a ball with your hands & on a lightly floured surface…
…ven to 180C. Line muffin tray with cupcake liners. In a bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt to combine well. Set aside. In a large bowl, whisk the bananas, sugar, egg, oil and vanilla. Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Gradually, fold in the sifted dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until well combined and then add the pecans. Be gentle; do not overbeat. Fill cupcake liners ¾ full with prepared batter. Top e…
…at the oven at 170C. or as per the settings of your oven. Grease or line a baking sheet with parchment or aluminium foil. In a sufficiently large bowl, mix maida, sugar, salt, baking soda & cardamom powder & keep aside for further use. Heat ghee in a bowl till it is just melted. Add the melted ghee to the dry ingredients & mix with your fingers until it forms a smooth ball of dough. If the dough is crumbly, add a little more melted ghe…
…efer, cut out cookies. Place the cookies about an inch apart on one of the baking sheets. Use a smaller heart cookie cutter to cut the centres of half of the cookies on the baking sheet. You can bake the smaller cookies to get plain Almond Cookies if you want or knead the dough scraps and roll out again to make more sandwich cookies. Repeat the process with the second ball of chilled cookie dough. If the dough is soft. Chill the unbaked cookie she…
…g your lightly floured Easter Cookie cutters cut out shapes. Place them on baking trays lined with parchment paper. Place the trays with unbaked cookies in the fridge to firm up and retain shape while baking. It may take about 15 to 20 minutes to chill. Similarly, cut out Easter shapes with the other half of the dough. Pre heat the oven to 175 C. Bake the cookies for about 8 to 10 minutes or until the edges just starting to brown. It will also dep…
…dditions alternating with milk. Combine well after each addition. Grease a baking pan with butter and line the bottom with parchment and dust with flour. Pour the prepared mawa cake batter into the baking pan. Tap the pan gently on the kitchen counter to release air bubbles, if any. Sprinkle with slivered nuts and rose petals. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 C until the top is lightly golden and when an inserted tooth pick or wooden skewer comes o…
…y of us think about ginger!! Quite a few may not even consider it in their baking but may be cooking. Would the heady, spicy, tangy and pungent flavor of Ginger ever cross your mind? Not everyone likes it but not many dishes can do without the flavor of ginger. Many cannot do without ginger powder, candied ginger or ginger preserves especially when you want to use it in your baking. Cookies, ginger bread, biscuits, jams, jellys, pies, tarts, pickl…
…or about 10 minutes. In a sufficiently large bowl; combine dates, walnuts, baking soda, salt, butter and warm water. Stir to mix well. Further; mix in the sugar, eggs and then the flour. Pour the batter in a greased 8 ½ x 4 ½ inch baking loaf pan with only the bottom lined with parchment paper. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 160 C for about an hour and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Transfer the pan to a wire rack and let the cak…
…ead into rough pieces and set aside. Add sugar and water to your aluminium baking pan and heat to caramelize sugar. Set aside to cool. Then grease the sides of the pan with butter. Mix together cinnamon and nutmeg powder (sweet spice powder) and set aside. In the prepared baking pan; roughly arrange alternate layers of bread pieces with jam, dry fruit, nuts and milk mixture. Sprinkle the aromatic sweet spice powder in between layers. After each la…