I absolutely love making and eating a good meringue. There’s something really wonderful about how just two simple ingredients like sugar and eggs can make a dessert so delicious. I use meringue for frosting my lemon tart as well as to just make cute edible decorations out of it. The base of a good meringue…
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Chocolate Cake Ice-Cream
Two things that I love the most in the world are chocolate cake and ice-cream. Let’s face it, we have all had our days when we’ve craved both only to top our chocolate cake slices with a good scoop of ice-cream. But what if I tell you that you can have best of both the worlds…
Round-up of Lockdown Recipes – top 10
I hope you all are doing well and staying safe. With the lockdown being extended to another week, we could all use a nice pick me up! For me, I think food and desserts bring my family together like nothing else. Tough times feel slightly better when you’re surrounded by good food and your most…
How to make cream cheese frosting
There are endless complaints that I receive about the same old vanilla buttercream. It’s admittedly too sweet, admittedly too unhealthy. And incomes in our beautiful cream cheese frosting to rescue you from the same old. Cream cheese frosting is a sweet-tangy frosting that goes beautifully with almost every dessert out there. Plus we can make…
Mango Sago Pudding Recipe
Mangoes are in season and this year, I wanted to experiment with things I’ve never made before! It’s often humbling how going out of my comfort zone ends up giving me something magical and this Mango Sago Pudding turned out to be one such dessert for me. Looking for some mango dessert inspiration, I decided…
Baking Powder vs Baking Soda – Differences & Uses
Every day I get at least one query about ‘whether I can interchange baking soda and baking powder’ Or ‘can I skip the baking soda/baking powder since I’m out’. I’m here to answer this every lasting debate between the baking soda vs. baking powder. Both baking soda and baking powder play a very crucial role…
Vanilla 101- Everything to know about Vanilla
I’ve special memories associated with vanilla. As a kid, summers were all about multiple scoops of vanilla ice cream as dessert. To this day, not much has changed. I still bake a vanilla flavored cake every other day and eat my desserts always topped with some creamy vanilla ice cream! All of these desserts have…
Baking ingredients and how to use them properly
I’ve never liked it when people say baking is scientific because it makes it sound so serious and not at all creative. That being said, I cannot deny the importance of taking care of the ratios, storage, reactions, and compatibility of different ingredients. Some major baking ingredients that are used all over the world include…