I’ve spent a lot of February giving new life to old recipes and I’ve been eyeing these peanut butter brownies for some time. Originally, I’d used peanut butter chips and baked them in a smaller pan. But this time, I wanted thinner, fudgier brownies with a slight bite from the peanuts themselves. Enter, crunchy peanut…
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Amelie’s Apple & Strawberry Crumble
I want to go to France. For a whole bunch of reasons. But now I want to go mostly because I CAN EAT THIS HEAVENLY CRUMBLE AGAIN! Must rewind. Amelie and her husband Geoffrey, live on, and run a farm in France. Originally from Belgium, Amelie studied with my husband and is reputed for making…
Red Velvet Cupcakes
I succumbed and brushed aside all my worries about overusing food colour. 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 used a recipe that had…
Amarula Chocolate Truffles
I always thought there was a bit of a science to making truffles. They’re one of those super-delicate looking things that you just don’t expect to be bits of chocolate rolled between your hands. But, that’s all they are. I did look like a toddler who’d just discovered wet mud by the time I was…
Seriously Fudgy Brownies
When I first started off with this baking thing, my brownies turned out cakey. Not bad to taste, but not fudgy and chewy like a brownie should be, you know? And that just wasn’t acceptable. Brownies should be moist and fudgy, with perfectly crackly tops. A really good brownie doesn’t need vanilla ice-cream or chocolate…
Mud Cake Cupcakes
My mom has two legendary recipe books. One was a notebook she used in college, but now has scribbled recipes for almost everything under the sun. The other is a large sketchbook, whose beautiful pages are filled with cutouts of yet more recipes from magazines and newspapers of all kinds. Between my mom, my sister…
Nutella Stuffed Cinnamon Muffins
I love cinnamon. I love Nutella. And I love muffins. So really, there was no reason to not put the three of them together. This particular adventure started with me wanting to make cinnamon donuts. And then I felt like Nutella cupcakes. Which turned into Nutella muffins with cinnamon-sugar thanks to this recipe. They’re fun…
Amarula Chocolate Mud Cake
A few years ago, when I first heard the name ‘mud cake’, I said “Well, that’s unappetizing.” It turned out to be the most delusional statement I had ever uttered. This is a rich, chocolatey, dense, finger-licking good kind of cake. It is proof that there is a heaven and it’s not that hard to…
Mango Cheesecake Bars
There is only one good thing about summer in India. Mangoes!! I’ve been wanting to try out a cheesecake for ages and thought why not make one with mangoes. Update: there is a more recent baked mango cheesecake here! This version makes a smaller one, baked as bars and it’s equally good!