It’s Diwali time!!!! That means you can eat all the sugar in the world and just blame it on the festive spirit and no one is allowed to judge. It should be Diwali all year round, don’t you think? In honour of this utterly beautiful, utterly lit up festival, I tried my hand at nankhatai….
Brownie Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups
These cookie cups are a mouthful. And they’ll be gone before you can say ‘brownie stuffed, chocolate chip cookie cups’. Thank God, because it’s a crazy long title. Chocolate chip and chunk cookie dough, stuffed with chocolatey fudgy brownies. Both made with barley flour to tone down the guilt levels. Soft and squidgy and sort of…
Red Wine Hot Chocolate
BuzzFeed is awesome. No arguments. Whoever thought of it, and all its incredible writers, please pat yourselves on the back. The world owes you guys a lot. A good friend and fellow dessertoholic shared this amazing BuzzFeed link on great ways to spike hot chocolate. Now while I love a good, steaming mug of it as is,…
Red Velvet Cupcakes 2.0
I succumbed. I ODed on food colour, brushing aside all my worries about overusing it. I’m so glad I did. The last time I tried making red velvet cake and cupcakes, I was paranoid about using too much red food colour and therefore wound up with tasty, but only ‘reddish’ velvet. I also looked for a…
Banana, Chocolate Chip and Barley Muffins
Pumpkin, pumpkin, everywhere. It’s that time of the year (in some parts of the world). Trees turn all kinds of gorgeous reds and oranges, winter wear makes its first appearance and every single baker out there turns pumpkin into every possible baked good. SO MUCH PUMPKIN. I do love a pumpkin cheesecake, but I had…