Disclosure: This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #EarnWithBoxTops #CollectiveBias These mini tarts have a crunchy cereal crust and are topped with fruit yogurt, fresh berries and a homemade caramel sauce. A great snack or light dessert made in under half an hour! Do you…
Upside-Down Cherry Cake
Put those fresh summer cherries to good use in this ridiculously easy and sinfully delicious upside-down cherry cake. This summer, the markets and stores are bursting at the seams with beautiful red cherries. They are so pretty, glistening like rubies, that I cannot help myself and always buy a couple of packets every week. Last…
Carrot Chai Coconut Cake With Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting
This incredibly moist carrot cake made with organic sweet carrots, brewed tea, chai spices and coconut is topped with brown sugar cream cheese frosting and toasted coconut flakes. Stunning and delicious, this carrot-chai-coconut cake makes for an amazing Easter brunch dessert. Can you believe it’s almost Easter? I was just going through our schedule for…
Chocolate-Dipped Almond & Orange Cookies
These easy to make slice and bake cookies dotted with toasted almonds and bright orange zest are dipped in melted chocolate and topped with coconut flakes, for an enticing Christmas treat. Winter break is here. It’s Christmas week. And baby, is it cold outside!! But, this is the perfect weather for warm cookies, enjoyed with a hot cuppa…
Gingerbread Cutout Cookies
With a slight snap on the outside, chewy insides, and the signature flavor of molasses and spices, gingerbread cookies are a Christmas classic. Here is an easy recipe for gingerbread cutout cookies that do not spread and are fun to decorate with simple icing. Gingerbread cookies – you either love them or hate them. Took me a while to cross…
Apple Cinnamon Cashew Nut Cake
A warm slice of this delicious and healthy apple and cashew nuts cake spiced with cinnamon will get you in the right mood for Fall. I cannot believe I am writing my first Fall post of the year already! As clichéd as it sounds, I cannot help but ask, “Where does the time go?”. It seems…
Strawberry Lemon Muffins
Loaded with fresh summer strawberries, lemon juice and zest, these fluffy muffins are absolutely irresistible. Have them for dessert, snack, breakfast/brunch or whenever, ‘coz you deserve a treat!! It will be Fall soon and that means, the end of berry season. So I am making the most of these last few weeks and using them…
Godhumai Pidi Kozhukkatai {Sweet Wheat Flour Dumplings}
Steamed, healthy, easy to make, sweet wheat flour dumplings (kozhukkatai) are the perfect after-school snack or breakfast. When I was little, one of my favorite foods (read – ‘the only breakfast that I ate without making a face’) were steamed, sweet kozhukkattai a.k.a, dumplings. Traditional kozhukkatai is made with rice flour with some freshly grated…
How To Make An Upside-Down Cake With Any fruit
Whenever I bake, I have this childish habit of knocking the cake pan on the counter-top thrice and crossing my fingers to make sure it is a good bake. As much as I love experimenting with recipes, wasting ingredients is something that annoys me very much. So I take some help from lady luck to…
Christmas Baking: Chocolate Dipped Cranberry-Almond Biscotti
Hey y’all, I am back with another cookie recipe. Did you really think there was such a thing as too many Christmas cookies? Or too many any-time cookies for that matter? Nah!! So, this one is a favorite of mine, the twice-baked Italian cookies or biscotti. It reminds of another childhood favorite, a twice-baked bread…
Caramel Apple Cupcakes
I made what I call caramel apple cupcakes. Basically, fluffy cupcakes full of shredded apples, frosted with cream cheese frosting and drizzled with a homemade caramel sauce. Okay, i will give you a minute for that to sink down. Can you say “Yippee-yoo!!” That’s exactly how you feel when you bite into one! This year,…
Oatmeal Thumbprint Cookies
This post should have come out earlier. I came up with this recipe last week when I was feeling down and defeated hearing all the terrible events taking place around the world. Baking these cookies was my way of overcoming a sudden sadness that seemed to cocoon me. Somehow, working with my hands has always…
