Cake House

This Christmas season I wanted to bake a cake and I was looking for various recipes. It was sheer coincidence that we happened to see this Malayalam movie called Salt n’ Pepper ( superb movie especially for all you foodies out there ). This movie has a sequence where the lead pair talks over the phone about a cake recipe which was made by a housewife in France while she was waiting for her soldier husband to come back from the war. Each day, she baked one cake thinking that her husband would return home and this continued for 3 days, when finally her husband came back home and she completed the cake with three layers of different flavors and chocolate topping. In the movie, they have named this cake as Joan’s rainbow cake. Though it says rainbow cake, it only has 3 layers and not seven :-) I wanted to use the same original name as they depict in the movie since it sounds quite unique and passionate. This story sounds apparently fictional. We couldn’t find anything in the web which ind...

I have seen these rolls in so many blogs and simply fell in love with the shape they take after baking. So I thought of trying this one day. My daughter liked this so much, that I made this thrice and every time she was enjoying till the last bite :) With the onset of winter, we all like to have something hot and fresh and this one turns out to be a perfect evening snack. While these are baking in the oven, the house is filled with the aroma of garlic and bread and they are irresistible. This one is quite a tempting recipe, that I like to make them again and again. I used all the dried herbs which I had in my pantry for the spread and they tasted awesome and was a treat for 4 out of my 5 senses, sight, smell, feel and taste :-) So here is the recipe of delicious and tasty rolls. Ingredients: Recipe adapted from Nags All purpose flour- 1 ½ cups Yeast ½ tbsp Warm water- ½ cup Salt- a pinch Sugar- 1tbsp Olive Oil- 1tbsp For Garlic spread Butter- 6tbsp Salt- as required Garlic (crushed an...

T his is one of the famous cookie recipes loved by all in my family. I make this often and stock it.  I love to do the traditional cookie dip in steaming tea. I think, I have been bitten by the baking bug as these days I am continuously baking some new dishes..:) It has become a habit that after coming from office, my Husband asks for any baked goodies. I am learning so many new recipes from all the books, diaries, so many websites, help from my Mom and so on.. These simple, yet delicious cookies got its name since they literally melt in the mouth and are heavenly. The wonderful aroma of these cookies while baking it in the oven fills the house that we cannot resist emptying the whole bunch of cookies. I am not worried about the oodles of weight that we are gaining after eating these butter cookies. I usually think once in a while its ok, but it ends up to be way too often :-) These are also known as cornstarch cookies. I have added chocolate chips, as I love to bite into the gooe...

C hristmas is around the corner and everybody is busy baking cakes and goodies to the near and dear ones. I thought of making this easy dessert which I was longing to make. This is a perfect dessert for chocolate lovers and is a very simple dessert that you can make in advance and keep chilled. We can have this dessert just like that or with any ice cream. We can also make chocolate mousse cakes out of these. But this is the basic chocolate mousse recipe. In this recipe, instead of using gelatin, we can also use eggs or agar agar (china grass). But as I have posted in my earlier posts I don’t like too much of eggy smell in my desserts. So I used gelatin. It is said that, mousse is derived from a french word, which means “lather” or “foam”. The texture of this mousse is creamy, thick and very chocolaty which is loved and preferred by kids and elders alike. Now this has become a must have dessert in my family. You can also add almonds or any preferred nuts for some nutty flavour in the m...