How important is it to you that you know what is in the food you are eating, where it comes from and who grew it? I have had this conversation time and again with people. “what I don’t know is not going hurt me” and “ignorance is bliss” were the tip of the iceberg sort of responses I received from a lot of people. When I first began to ask this question almost a decade ago, not many people I had conversations with thought it was important. To some I seemed like a pretentious food snob, to others I was …
Chocolate and Tomato Soup Bundt Cake #BundtBakers
It’s the strange but good sort of a day with the Bundt Bakers. And that’s why you are being forced to partake in a recipe that uses tomato soup as one of it’s ingredients. If you think adding tomato soup in my chocolate bundt is way too weird, wait till you see what the other strange (ahem) Bunt Bakers have come up with! As weird as it sounds, it is not all that uncommon – the tomato soup cake! It has been known to have made it’s presence in the depression era. And there are scores of recipes, old and …
Chocolate Sprinkles Sour Cream Bundt Cake #BundtBakers
“Mom, Will you bake a cake just for me”? This isn’t a request I ever get, because there is always cake or cookies lying around in the house for the teen and her friends to eat. And the request is usually about a particular kind of bake. Never about a bake “Just for her”. So, I had to pause and ask what kind. But what I wanted to know was what brought about the request. And a few minutes of ‘cake chat’ later I found out that unknowingly, I am always baking cakes either because I have a bundt cake …
Orange Blossom Honey Nut and Blueberry Cake #Bundtbakers
As much as I love baking and decorating really fancy cakes for others to eat, my personal favorites are cakes that have no icing, are not overly sweet and have a slightly chewy baked on crust. The cakes that are old fashioned and rustic. The cakes you can leave on the counter and cut a slice when you want and eat it from your hand. Cakes that remind me of Dolly didi and her pressure cooker cakes, of joys in all things simple. I know I am going on a nostalgic trip, but it’s been that kind of a week. …
Cassata Ice-Cream Cake
I had planned to base the cassata ice-cream cake on the Indian Cassata Ice-cream that I loved while growing up. But there were a couple of issues. First off, It’s been a while since I established that I was gluten intolerant. No, I am not on the eating gluten free bandwagon. I love bread too much to give it up for no reason at all. I am not allergic, so in small quantities it doesn’t bother me. But it does bother me if I eat a slice of bread. So why is it a problem for an ice-cream post? Well …
Lemon Ricotta and Poppyseed Bundt Cake #Bundtbakers
Summer is tip toeing it’s way into Colorado. Usually by now, we all are complaining about how hot it is. Not this time around. This time we are complaining about how much it is raining and are comparing Denver to Seattle. It would appear that we are a complaining lot and I would not feel bad if you said it out loud. We just love how weird our weather is. Due to the rain, our reservoirs are filling up and the rivers are flowing full speed and with force. We get a few moments of sun shine and then huge …