Baking with Merry

These days I have this habit of jotting down recipes which look appealing to my eyes.....Be it from newspapers, magazines or even internet, I make a note of all recipes which I feel I can make someday in the future.....In particular recipes related to baking never misses my eyes,  no matter how easy or complicated it is..... This recipe for Applesauce Spice Squares appeared in the Sunday supplementary of The Hindu - Magazine, some 2 weeks back....made a note of it and the next week itself, I baked it....The cake is very moist and full of flavors.....It was good.....A different treat to your taste buds! I must say, the cake was more tastier as it aged; it tasted better after 3-4 days.....So, go ahead and give it a try..... Ingredients: Recipe Source: Magazine, The Hindu All purpose flour, sifted - 2 cups Baking soda - 2 tsp Cinnamom powder - 3/4 tsp Cloves, powdered - 1/4 tsp Nutmeg, grated  - 1/4 tsp Butter, softened - 1/2 cup Egg - 1 Vanilla extract

I have baked cakes of different flavors;  coffee , chocolate , strawberry , banana , mango , red wine and so on.....The other day I was thinking about a tea cake; I mean a real "tea" cake baked from tea leaves......I searched on the www and found out this recipe from Pastry Affair . I wanted a simple tea cake along with our evening tea, so I left out the buttercream icing mentioned in the original recipe. Ingredients: Recipe Source: Pastry Affair Milk - 235ml Black tea - 3 tbsp Butter - 55 gm, room temp Granulated sugar - 225 gm Eggs - 2, large Vegetable oil - 1/4 cup Vanilla essence - 1 tsp Cake flour - 175 gm Baking powder - 1 1/2 tsp Baking soda - 1/2 tsp Salt - 1/2 tsp Method: Preheat oven to 180 C. Grease a bundt cake pan or a 9 inch round cake pan. Warm the milk until near boiling on the stove. Add tea directly into the milk. Allow to cool. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.Add the eggs

Loong back, maybe a couple of months back ;), a link from one blog to another and to another and to another landed me on this blog that left me flabbergasted....Everything about the blog was just stunning-from photography tips to crafts to recipes.....I had bookmarked two recipes from the blog; the Brownie Tart and the Cream cheese and Fruit Triffle ....Finally, I baked the former and the latter still remains bookmarked hoping to hit this blog someday....... The Brownie tastes best the next day...So, I had to coax my kids from cutting the brownie soon after it was baked with some sweet-stories...Luckily, the next day, they had forgotten about it in the morning...But soon after their lunch, they indulged themselves in the fudgy brownie, with a regret of not having vanilla ice-cream alongside! Ingredients: Recipe Source: Zoom Yummy For the Brownie: Walnuts, toasted and chopped - 110 gms Unsalted butter - 200 gms Semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped int