Bread
Danish Pastry
A Danish pastry or Danish is a viennoiserie pastry, of Viennese origin, which has become a specialty of Denmark and neighbouring Scandinavian countries. (Courtesy: Wikipedia). One can find a variety of Danishes in terms of flavours as well as shapes. The actual recipe calls for eggs. But I chose to
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Christmas Stollen or Christstollen
I have been missing from action for quite a while due to some personal commitments. With Christmas just a day away, how could I not share some special Christmas recipe with you ?? Along with wishing all my wonderful readers and their loved ones a wonderful Christmas, here’s my Christmas gift to you
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Basket Bread
A couple of days back, I was going through some restaurant pictures clicked by a friend of mine, when I saw a basket made of bread. Needless to say, I just couldn’t wait to try it out myself. After a lot of browsing, all I could find was a pictorial instruction about weaving the basket but no recipe
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Flower Bread with Apple filling
Ever since I saw the picture of this bread on a random post, I was itching to try this. All I had was the step-by step pictures of preparing it. In spite of searching the net I couldn’t get the recipe. So I decided to follow my gut feeling and experiment. I chose the eggless burger bun recipe as I love the taste of it. As for the filling, I decided to make some apple filling. Let me confess..I had a whole lot of butterflies in my stomach. I decided to make very less apple filling lest it went waste in case the bread didn’t come out good. The dough turned out to be way too soft to handle. So my first attempt didn’t quite achieve the desired look. As they say, “you learn from your mistakes” So the second time, I was a bit more careful in handling the dough. Voila !! It definitely got the look I hoped for. For a first attempt, I was pleased with the outcome. The next step was the taste test. Both J and D loved the bread so much that they were disappointed to find out that I had made only
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Flower Bouquet Bread
The first time I saw the picture of a flower bouquet bread was when my friend tagged me on the picture of the bread. What a beauty it was !!! Needless to say, I just couldn’t wait to try it. Did a bit of net surfing and found the recipe and details in Foodiva’s Kitchen Here’s the recipe with step by
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Eggless Chocolate Croissants
A croissant is a buttery flaky viennoiserie bread roll named for its well known crescent shape. (Courtesy: Wikipedia) Eversince I tried the recipe from Tracy’s Culinary adventures, I have never looked elsewhere The proces of making croissants is time consuming, but definitely worth the effort. I hav
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Eggless Burger Buns
A couple of days back, I was all set to prepare Doughnuts as an evening snack. However, I had decided to make it in the traditional way, i.e, from yeast based dough. While the dough was undergoing proofing, it dawned on me that I had to prepare Dinner as well. After checking my pantry, I decided to
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Cinnamon Rolls
Here’s the recipe of Cinnamon Rolls, a cinnamon flavoured tea time snack. Cinnamon Rolls Source: My Diary
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Salami-Bread Roses
It was during one of those internet browsing sessions, that I came across Salami-Bread Roses. Though the idea did ring a bell, I was too preoccupied to give it a second look.Nevertheless,the thought stayed in my mind, and while preparing the dough for Cinnamon Rolls, it popped out. So I took out a b
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Basic White Bread
The first time I tried my hand at baking bread was during my college days. Even though my enthusiasm was over the roof, the end result didn’t come out as expected. I think the technicalities were overwhelming for a teenager without much experience. Thereafter the idea was shelved for a while My sec
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Pirozhki or Stuffed Buns
Pirozhki, in Russian, means individual-sized baked or fried buns stuffed with a variety of fillings. Initially when I came across this name, I was really intrigued by the name itself. Only when I googled it did I realise that it meant Stuffed Buns. The dough was prepared following the recipe from Ra
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Cantaloupe Quick Bread
Here’s good news for all the ‘Cantaloupe Haters’ like me.. 🙂 Yeah!! You read it right…I meant Cantaloupe a.k.a Muskmelon ‘haters’. You must be wondering if I have gone crazy…. Definitely Not. I am just overjoyed by the fact that I found a way to consume the Cantaloupe lyingon my countertop It
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Scones – A Simple Bread and Apple Sauce
I don’t know why, I was always intrigued by Scones.Even though I had never tasted them, I wanted to try and make them some day.I came to know of scones while watching a TV program. I guess the curiosity could be because I always look at baking as a challenge and so wanted to take up this one as well
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