Baking with Merry

Merry Christmas  to all my  Wonderful Readers Christmas is just few hours away and the home is ready for the day!! The crib, tree and the star are up except for the Christmas Plum Cake *smiles*.... Instead, I baked few Christmas cookies for a change. In fact, I made two different cookies with a single dough! The first one is the Candy Cane Cookies and the second, The Pinwheel Cookies , which would be in the next post! Ingredients: Recipe Adapted From: My Diverse Kitchen Butter - 125 gm Sugar - 1 1/4 cup Egg - 1 Milk - 1/2 cup Vanilla essence - 1 tsp Almond essence - 1 tsp Baking powder - 3/4 tsp All purpose flour - 3 1/2 cups Red food colour - 1-2 tsp Green food colour - 1-2 tsp Method: In a bowl, cream butter and sugar well.  Add egg, milk, vanilla and almond essences and mix well. Then add the sifted baking powder and flour and mix into a dough. Divide the dough in half. Add the red food colour to one half and mix well....

May the festival of lights, bring a world of sparkling joy, happiness, prosperity and contentment to you, to last you throughout the year. Happy Diwali to My Readers All Over The  World! When Subhashini Ramsingh of Fondbites made the Motichoor Kesar Gulab Cheesecake for Bake Along #43, I knew what I should be making for Diwali..... So, here is my special Diwali sweet to all my readers..... And wishing you all once again a "Happy and Prosperous Diwali' and do play safe with the crackers *smiles*........ Ingredients: Motichoor Laddu - 5 For the Cheesecake Cream cheese - 180 gm Condensed milk - 200ml Thick coconut milk - 1/2 cup Fresh cream - 200 ml Warm milk - 1/4 cup Saffron strands - a big pinch, depending on how strong you want the flavor to be. Gelatin - 2 tbsp Water - 1/2 cup For the Glaze Gelatin - 1 tbsp Water - 1/2 cup Gulkhand - 20 gmn Fresh cream - 20 gm Pink food colour - 3 drops Method...