Cake House

C hukku Kaapi is also called as herbal coffee, which is a herbal medicinal decoction and a great home remedy for a sore throat, cold, cough and mild fever. This magical drink is hot, spicy, sweet, strong and very aromatic. Whenever I make this coffee, the whole house will be filled with the aroma. My mom used to make this often whenever we fell sick. This time around when I made the herbal coffee, there was something new that I got to experiment which turns out to be the first of its kind in my blog. Here I am, introducing to you, the beautiful copper mugs sent to me all the way from Canada. Thanks a bunch to Jessica ( www.moscowmuled.com ) for sending these over to me. You can check their page to know more about these mugs. I was so excited to see those mugs and it almost never crossed my mind before that we could use these copper mugs in other types of beverages other than the actual " Moscow Mule ". While I am on this topic, I have to mention that there are traditional...

Y esterday was our wedding anniversary and to celebrate the occasion I baked this mirror glaze mocha cake for the first time. I was looking for a chance to bake this amazingly scrumptious cake and so I got a reason. This is the first time I am trying the mirror glaze effect and it came out perfect. I have followed my very own mocha cake recipe, the coffee mousse recipe and mirror glaze recipe I adapted from different blogs. I choose the coffee flavor for our anniversary cake as we all love the flavor a lot. The glaze came out perfect and so I want to share the recipe with my lovely friends. The creamy white chocolate gives a mirror-like finish when poured over a smoothly frosted cake. The latest craze in this baking is this shiny mirror like a glaze and the glazing effect. I am very happy and excited to share this recipe with all of you. Hope you will try and let me know. Ingredients: For Mocha Cake All Purpose Flour- 1 1/2 Cups Sugar- 1 Cup Baking Soda- 1 Tsp Cocoa Powder- 3 ...

T he way of celebrating valentine's day has changed a lot in modern times. Gifting greeting cards, roses, chocolates, gift cards has become the recent trend of celebrating valentine's day. Everyone has there own way of celebrating this day and so I have made chocolate pops which are dipped in pink candy melts and decorated with Nutella hearts. I made this for the first time and fell in love with these cuties, that can be decorated however we want. These cute little cakes on a stick are really simple and easy to make. Ingredients: Chocolate Cake (crumbled)- 3 Cups Butter (at room temperature)- ¾ Cup Cocoa Powder- 4 tbsp Coffee Powder- 1 tbsp Granulated Sugar- ½ Cup Candy Melts- ½ Cup Method: Cream the butter till it forms fluffy, light and cream in colour. In this add cocoa powder, coffee powder and sugar. Mix well. Add this in the crumbled cake mixture and mix properly with hand and make round balls of desired size. Insert cake pop sticks in each of the cake balls. Keep this re...

I was in deep thought from so many days as what to bake for our wedding anniversary and this is what I finalised at last after googling through some of the amazing cakes from the site “Passionate about Baking”. You all might know that this blog has many lip smacking cakes and the food pics are really a feast to the eyes. I choose this cake dish as all the ingredients were available easily. I have modified the original recipe a bit. I just made the vanilla cake the way it was in the original recipe. For the coffee cake I used my own version which I had posted earlier in my blog . I assembled the two cakes alternatively along with coffee syrup and coffee cream frosting. Finally, I decorated the cake with chocolate decorations and jelly which I had prepared for my little one. You will love this cake if you are a fan of coffee flavor. Adapted From Passionate about Baking : Ingredients: Vanilla Sponge Cake: Flour- 75 gms Baking powder- 1 tsp Eggs- 3 nos Sugar- 75 gms Milk- 2 tbsp Olive oil...

Celebrating the 3rd anniversary of my dear little space ... Time flies by so quickly and I didn’t realise that its been 3 years since I started my blog. In these years I have learnt a lot about blogging, about different cuisines, found lot of friends and  more than that improved skills in baking and have become a crazy baker… :) I am really thankful to my husband for supporting me with this blog. He encouraged me to write up the content and to upload food pics of whatever I made and the most important thing is that whatever I made it was experimented on him first. In fact, he wanted to name this blog “My experiments with husband” instead of “My experiments with food”... :) So to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of my blog, I baked a coffee cake which is one of my favorites. I love the coffee flavor blended with the cake. When the cake was being baked the aroma of the cake along with coffee, filled the house and couldn’t resist tasting a bit while it was cooling down. I just toppe...

T his is the cake which I made last week for my wedding anniversary. As I was little busy with the visit of my in- laws and going here and there, I couldn’t post the cake recipe. Coffee cakes are of two types, the one which can be eaten with coffee or the one which has a strong coffee flavor. I wanted to try something different and to bake the cake which I never did before. So keeping in mind my in -laws and husband’s tastes, I ended up baking a coffee flavored cake as all of them are fond of coffee. I found this cake recipe in ria’s collections. It is named as mahogany cake . But as the coffee flavour is too much I named it Coffee Cake. This delicious coffee cake is great for all occasions. Usually coffee cakes have a delicious crumb topping of the nuts. But as it has a rich and buttery flavor I dont want to add any more calories to this. That is why I didn’t decorate the cake with whipping cream. This cake is so soft and moist that when you sprinkle the coffee syrup it will get absor...

M mmmmm..... I simply love the smell of freshly baked goodies, just as I love baking since the aroma of the baked items will linger around and also the taste of the freshly baked goodies is something exceptional which we cannot get anywhere in the market. Most preferably I like to bake cookies as the buttery taste and the “melt-in-mouth” cookies are very simple and easy to make without much effort and they taste heavenly. And that too if the cookies are made of coffee then nothing can beat those. On a very tiring day, these are a special energy boosters that we all love to have it with a cup of hot tea. But we should take care that the coffee shouldn’t exceed the limit as it will taste bitter. It happened to me, when I baked the first batch I added exact amount of coffee powder the recipe was demanding and it turned out to be bitter and then for the second batch as I reduced the amount of coffee, it was amazingly delicious. This is a really tasty treat in which instant coffee, flour, b...