Well everyone bakes a Victoria sponge and here is mine! Good friends and good food on a fine summer day... good enough to celebrate with a beautiful sponge with lots of lovely summer strawberries :)
I added a dash of rose extract to give the usual Victoria sponge a new refreshing flavour. Baking a naked cake with some lovely summer fruits was the idea, like a fancy Victoria sponge cake :D
After an evening with friends, the cake vanished and I knew I had got it right ;)
Fancier Victoria Sponge Cake
I must say these are irresistible!!! Had the opportunity to bake these for my best friend's son's first birthday party :) So you should know these are super special and an amazing addition to any get to-gathers. Everyone at the party loved it and what more gratification do you need when the people for whom you baked are HAPPY!
I had used the food processor to whiz z the pastry and the kitchen had lots going on at the moment so we had the pastry dough in fridge for few hours before cutting out the hearts. The dough was very soft and for better handling, the cut out cookies were refrigerated for 15 mins before popping into the hot oven. They baked into perfection and it was fun sandwiching the two cookies with our favorite berry conserve.
Jam Biscuits
Recipe adapted from BBC
Valentine's Day is round the corner and everyone is thinking red roses and chocolates and fresh flowers and ... chocolate cupcakes???
Nailing a good eggless cake recipe was definitely tense! Once you try this recipe, you are going to ask yourself "This did not use eggs... really? " Well, that is what Nikhil kept asking me while gobbling on one of these extremely chocolaty cupcakes with a smooth cream cheese frosting :D
One other thing is that this is a very simple recipe to put together giving gorgeous cupcakes.
Eggless Chocolate Cupcake
Recipe adapted from Instructables & Kurryleaves
This is my go-to recipe for a simple dessert which requires only few ingredients and little effort. This always gives promising results and you will be more than happy when people shower you with lots of sweet compliments after having this :D
Also this always has its place on the sumptuous vegetarian festive spread back home in Kerala :)
Paal Payasam {Kheer - Quick & Easy}
Recipe adapted from my Amma
