Last week Shyama came home from her college and asked if I would make a cake for her to take back to her place.
The place were she stays they celebrate all the kids birthday, and for the person’s birthday which comes in the summer holidays they celebrate half year bithday and as her birthday is on end of Jully they did her birhtday on end of  January.
So she wanted to take a cake back there and
Oh, yum. You should make this. So. Here we are at the third and final chapter of Baking Something Chocolate and Fabulous with My Awesome Niece, Natalie. If you missed the other chapters, here are the links: Part 1 Part…
Here’s the second part of Chocolate Baked Good Day with My Awesome Niece Natalie! Part one is here. Okay, so here we’ve got all our ingredients measured out and ready to go: flour, milk, sugars, eggs, cocoa powder, salt, baking…
My awesome niece, Natalie, is here today, and we’ve selected a Chocolate Pound Cake as our Chocolate Baked Good of Choice. I’ll post the recipe at the end of everything. For now, here’s an action shot of Natalie cracking eggs:…
I’m finally baking! Just in time for this month’s installment of The Cake Slice. We start off our third year of baking from the book: Cake Keeper Cakes, a promising cookbook filled with different types of cakes: from round ones to loafs, bundts to crumb cakes, chiffon and snacking cakes. I’m excited to get this year started with this book.
Every once in a while I go through my recipe stash – Joao kindly calls it my “mess” – and find ripped pages/prints I did not remember existed – like this recipe from when I was a Bon Appétit subscriber, ages ago.
It’s a good cake – I expected it to be a bit more tender, but one of my official Guinea pigs said it was great; however, it was the icing that won me over: I left the espresso out and
Doesn’t this cake look good? It tasted great, too, I can assure you.
But the funny thing about this recipe is that preparing it made me think of my grandma – and no, she doesn’t like chocolate. It’s just that I was not in the mood for extra washing up and decided to grate the chocolate with a box grater, instead of grabbing the food processor. What a bad decision it was: it took me FOREVER
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes Happiness.”Charles Haddon Spurgeo
Here’s a cake that makes me H A P P Y! Every baker worth his salt has a bunch of tried and tested…
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Saturday I had asked Apolina of Bombay-Bruxelles and Marion of Crumbles et Cassonade for a day to my place. We have been wanting to do that for a while especially in the summer, but summer holidays has been busy so I asked them to my home and they accepted my invitation.I knew we would have lots of fun, and Indeed we had.It is always nice to meet other people who have the same passion of cooking