Baking with Merry

Frosted Peanut Butter Cupcakes for all lovely Parents!! This post is dedicated to all the Parents in the world ( including myself )....Well, I never baked this cupcake for Parent's day...In fact, I never knew it is Parent's Day today, I came to know about it through FB and so thought of dedicating my cupcakes to this particular Day..... I don't know how many of you have read my profile in "About"...There I said baking is therapeutic for me and it was true in this case!!When I baked this cupcake yesterday, I was stressed out with severe headache....But once done, I was completely relaxed.... Ingredients: Recipe Source: Baking...made simple by Parragon Books Butter - 4 tbsp, softened Brown sugar - 1 cup Peanut butter - 1/3 cup Eggs - 2 Vanilla essence - 1 tsp All-purpose flour - 1 1/2 cups Baking powder - 2 tsp Milk - 1/3 cup Frosting Cream cheese - 1 cup Butter - 2 tbsp, softened Confectioner's sugar - 2 cups Metho...

Well, there is nothing much to say about this bake...I found it in one of my baking books and the pictures were quite appealing...Moreover, I had some apples at home and so zeroed in this recipe.... Ingredients: Recipe Source: Baking....made simple, Parragon Books For the muffins All-purpose whole-wheat flour - 2/3 cup All-purpose white flour - 1/2 cup Baking powder - 1 1/2 tsp Salt - 1/4 tsp Cinnamon, ground - 1 tsp Superfine sugar - 1/4 cup Apples - 2 medium or 1 large; peeled, cored and finely chopped Milk - 1/2 cup Egg, beaten - 1 Butter, melted - 4 tbsps For the topping Brown sugar lumps - 12, coarsely crushed Cinnamon, ground - 1/2 tsp Method: Place muffin paper liners in a muffin pan. Sift both flours, baking powder, salt and cinnamon together into a large bowl and stir in the sugar and chopped apples.  Place the milk, egg and butter in a separate bowl and mix. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and gently stir until ...

Remember my marble cake which I had baked looong back and which had almost turned into a chocolate cake, except for a few patches of white batter here and there.....I decided to re-try it once again on my mom's b'day which was on July 2.... Luckily, this time I managed to create a marble effect on my cake.... But, the chocolate was still dominant!!! I think I need to reduce the amount of cocoa powder used in the recipe (from 4 tbsps to 2)..... Wanna bite??? Happy Birthday Mummy So, this was my gift for my mommy on her b'day...I know she wouldn't like it...u know why???coz....coz....coz...she simply hates marble cake...hehheeehhhheee....  

My kids just hate drinking milk....It's an ordeal for me each morning to make them drink milk before they leave for school...That's when I decided to try out milkshakes! And, they just loved it.....But, that doesn't mean I serve them milkshakes everyday (c'mon it's not practical to serve toddlers with this sweet and cold beverage everyday) ....just once in a while they do get a little treat from their mommy *smiles*.... Now, I have tried many milkshakes, mostly with fruits like strawberries, mangoes, bananas, chikoos and so on...I was looking for different recipes on milkshake, when I found this Nutella Milkshake on Sharmis Passion...That sounded quite interesting and so I decided to make it and believe me it was superb!!! Ingredients: Recipe Source: Sharmis Passion Chilled Milk - 1 cup Nutella - 2 tbsps Cornflakes - 1 tbsp Coco powder - 1 tsp Sugar - 1/2 tsp Method: Add the chilled milk, nutella, cornflakes, coco powder and sugar in a blende...

Torta de Cielo (Mexican Almond Sponge Cake) Every year, June 26 is a special day for me---The day when my parents got married and this year they celebrated their 32 years of togetherness...                                     "Happy Anniversary Pappa and Mummy" Though I couldn't be there at home to celebrate it with my parents, I thought of baking a cake back here at my abode....Now, which cake and what cake? I wanted to make something truly special, something which is not so common!! I had two cake recipes in my mind; the Tres Leche and the Torta de Cielo.....I planned of baking the Tres Leche but somehow at the last hour, I changed my decision!! And it was a good decision indeed as the cake was just delicious; tasted quite different too!!! No wonder it is called as "cake of heaven". Ingredients: Recipe Source: Baking...made simple by Parragon Books Unsalted Butter, at room ...

Another mango recipe....probably my last one too with mangoes!! Frankly, I love having mangoes as such, rather than in a cake or verrine....I had plans of making a Mango Cheesecake too, but I kinda dropped that plan....Maybe next mango season...Lets see! I found this recipe in Nag's  Edible Garden  while searching for vegan recipes. Any idea as to what is vegan??? (Kindly let me know, if u have any clue....) Ingredients: Recipe Source: Edible Garden All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cups Baking powder - 2 tsp Salt - 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp* Mango puree - 1 1/2 cups Oil - 1/3 cup* Granulated sugar - 2/3 cup Vanilla essence - 1 tsp Method: Preheat oven to 180 C. In a bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt and cardamom powder together. In another bowl, whisk the mango puree, oil, sugar and vanilla until well combined. Add this to the flour mixture and fold till no traces of flour is left. Use only a hand whisk or a rubber spatula. Transfer the batter ...

I had bookmarked two mango recipes long back when mangoes were not available in the market! First, the  Mango Yogurt Verrine from Swapna's Cuisine and the Mango and Vanilla Custard Verrines from Sharmi's Passion. Now, when the mangoes were available, the yogurt for the verrine was missing! And so, I  combined both the recipes; used vanilla custard instead of yogurt and the resulting product is the Mango Vanilla Verrine or Mango Custard Verrine!!! A simple, easy-to-make calorie-rich dessert; so dieters stay away *winks*.... Ingredients: Recipe Adapted from: Swapna's Cuisine & Sharmi's Passion Vanilla Custard - 3 cups Sugar - 3 tbsp (acc to your taste) Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp Mango puree - 2 or 3 cups (puree of 2 mangoes) Gelatin - 2 tsp Method: To Make the Custard:  Prepare the custard according to the instructions given on the packet. Allow it to cool completely. Sprinkle 1 tsp of gelati...