Baking with Merry

My little girl turned 3 today!!! I just can't believe it.... *phew*.... Where is time flying to!! My search for her cake started few months back. I wanted to bake something special for her. I had a few criteria in my mind. I needed a strawberry cake (my gal's favorite fruit); a pink cake (her favorite color) and a 3 layer cake (as it was her 3rd b'day ). My search landed up me in Sweetapolita.... I usually go for cakes that pleases my eyes...... And every cake in Sweetapolita pleased my eyes.... *winks*...... Next, I checked out the ingredients of each cake and finally landed upon the Neapolitan Cake..... It had everything that I was looking for - a strawberry cake (for the b'day girl), a chocolate cake (for the son and hubby), a vanilla cake (for the blogger) and of course it's a 3 layer cake...... However, I followed the recipe on Annie's Eats . So, to get the full recipe hop on to her  Neapolitan Cake . The frosting used is Swiss Meringu...

Yes! It's that month when I have two most important people celebrating their birthdays on two consecutive days...I have my better-half celebrating his birthday today..... And this is the first time I am actually doing something on his birthday since I usually concentrated more on the next one..... So, I wanted to make him something special this year, (not the usual cake) and I landed upon one of the most creamylicious , yummylicious dessert-The Tiramisu-one of his favorite too!!!  Now, I have made a Tiramisu and a Tiramisu Cake some time back with sponge cakes but this is the first with Savoiardi...... Moreover, I needed a twist in the dessert, something different from the usual!! And so, I decided to make the Irish Cream Tiramisu by Nigella (one of my favorite baker) ..... Nigella has never failed me when it comes to baking...... I tried her Devil's Food Cake last year (same day) and it was simply superb! Irish Cream Tiramisu Ingredients: Recipe S...

It's been ages since I have baked a cookie!! The last I had baked were the  Chocolate cookies . So, decided to bake one. The original recipe adds chopped walnuts in the cookie..... Since we are not walnut lovers, I decided to skip that part.... Ingredients: Recipe Adapted from: Chocolate by Parragon Books Unsalted Butter - 1/2 cup Light brown sugar - 1/2 cup, generous Castor sugar/Granulated sugar - 1/2 cup, scant Vanilla essence - 1 tsp Instant coffee granules - 1 tbsp, dissolved in 1 tbsp hot water Egg - 1 All- purpose flour - 1 1/2 cups Baking powder - 1/2 tsp Baking soda - 1/4 tsp White chocolate chips - 1/2 cup, scant Method: Preheat oven to 180 C. Grease the cookie sheets. Put the butter, light brown sugar and castor sugar in a bowl and beat until light and fluffy. Then add the vanilla extract, coffee and egg one by one and beat until fluffy. Sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda into the mixture and fold in carefully. Fo...

A rich and filling milkshake, which can be enjoyed once in a while. To make it more nutritious, I added a teaspoon of flax seed. And if you want to indulge, then add a scoop of vanilla ice-cream or cream. Ingredients: Recipe Source: My own Milk, chilled - 1 1/2 cups Peanut butter - 1 -2 tbsp Banana - 1 Sugar - 1 tbsp Flax seed - 1 tsp Method: Blend all the ingredients in a blender until smooth. Serve the milkshake either chilled or with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream or a dollop of cream. Notes: Though flax seeds have a sharp taste, adding them makes it more nutritious. So, this is completely optional depending on your taste buds.  

Wishing All My Readers All Around The World  "Eid Mubarak" For the past few days my kids were constantly demanding for a cake and I was like "Now, which cake?". My son reminded me of the Zebra Cake which he had seen on a blog few weeks back while I was noting it down on my recipe book. So, off goes mamma bear to bake the cake for her little bears and papa bear ...*smiles*...   Ingredients: Recipe Source: AZ Cookbook Eggs - 3 @ room temperature Granulated sugar - 250g Milk @ room temp - 250ml Oil - 250 ml All purpose flour - 300g Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp Baking powder - 1 tbsp Dark cocoa powder - 2 tbsp Method: In a large mixing bowl, combine eggs and sugar. Using a hand mixer, beat until the mixture is creamy and light in color. Add milk, vanilla essence and oil and continue beating until well blended. In a separate bowl, combine and mix flour and baking powder. Gradually add the flour mixture ...