Butter or Oil – What Should I Use While Making a Cake

Internet today is full of cake recipes and at times you get confused which version to try. You search for one cake recipe and you get thousands of recipes. Almost all recipes are same with one or two variations here and there. You can understand most of the variations but one thing that stands out…

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The Many Layers of Pastries

Pastries are baking products made from flour, butter, milk, sugar, and eggs. They can be savory or sweet. The sweet pastries are also called baker’s confectionery. The pastries are made two ways – laminated (in this method, the fat (butter or margarine) is folded repeatedly into the layers of dough) and nonlaminated (in this method,…

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How to Make Soft and Spongy Rasagullas

Many of you would think, why an entire post on rasgullas? If you ask me, I can even write an article in the newspaper on how I got my rasgullas correct, finally 🙂 Rasgullas are considered the king of Indian sweets. Originated in West Bengal, they are the flag bearer of Bengali cuisine, esp. sweets.…

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Buttermilk and Sour Cream – Why and How We Use Them in Cakes

A simple recipe for cake calls for flour, sugar, butter, and eggs. That’s all you need to bake a cake. But plain cakes can go only so far. Adding different flavors to the cakes takes them altogether to a different level. We can experiment with different flavors by adding various liquid ingredients like milk, buttermilk,…

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COVID 19, A Birthday, and Lots of Balloons

Sunday was my younger son’s birthday and we were all holed up in our house due to COVID 19 outbreak. My son who just turned 6, could not understand why there was no party and why his friends did not come 🙂 Thankfully, he had his elder brother to cheer him up and play with…

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