With my last month’s epic Bundt cake disasters and then final success, I was bracing myself up for this month’s theme with the #BundtBakers. If last month’s epic battle with the Bundt taught me anything, It was this – “Respect the Bundt! For it has a mind of its own”. I was keen to try my favorite brownie recipe for this month’s theme – Rocky Road. I have made a bundt cake with the recipe a few times and it has been a success. So I was acting cool as a cuke and thinking, “I got this”! But I forgot, the …
Tropical Surprise Bundt Cake #Bundt Bakers
“If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.” ~Chinese Proverb In all my time of cake baking, I have never had an epic cake fail. Sure there have been cakes that didn’t turn out as delicious or I didn’t much care for the texture but I have not had cakes just fall flat on me. Until Now. For this month’s theme for Bundt Bakers I suggested that we bake cakes with hidden surprises. How hard could it be? Hiding a little filling or a little something inside a cake sounded fun enough when …
Coconut Caramel Samoas Bundt Cake #Bundtbakers
A long time ago, when one of my neighbors decided to lead and manage a Girls Scouts troop, I was over the moon. Yes! You read that right! “I” was over the moon. My daughter had no idea she was going to be a Girl Scout. Her mom had made the decision that she was going to be and that was that. Since I was then a recent transplant from India, I found the Girl Scouting culture fascinating and empowering. It was something I never got to do as a young girl and I wanted to have my daughter the …
Blackforest Bundt Cake #BundtBakers
To say that the blackforest is our favorite cake would be an understatement. Cherry, chocolate and whipped cream create a magical combination. Though I have posted my recipe for a traditional Blackforest cake, I was really looking forward to convert the cake into a bundt cake. Hence the Blackforest Bundt cake. This is my first time posting with the Bundt Bakers and after a couple of tries at bundt baking ( last month was coconut ) I have arrived at the following life changing decisions. 1) Buy a decent Bundt pan. I have no idea where I got the bundt …
Dulce De Leche Croquembouche
Expressing creativity, trying out new things and taking on challenges in cooking and baking – are my primary reasons and motivation for food blogging. Because of blogging, I met friends that I would have otherwise not known and these friends, sometimes are fearless and throw in a challenge or two and inspire and motivate me to do some fearless things. The Dulce De Leche Croquembouche is the result of a challenge thrown in by one such friend, Jenni of Pastry Chef Online, whose tagline is Fearless in the Kitchen. This fearless pastry chef challenged us to make Valentine’s-themed croquembouche. Now …
Pumpkin Roll – Let’s do pumpkin a little differently!
Of course you must have noticed. If you have been reading my blog regularly, you must have noticed that I haven’t done ANY pumpkin posts this year. In our home there used to be a pumpkin season. It would start when we would carve pumpkins out for Halloween, then roast the seeds for snacking on, and make the delicious butternut squash rolls that even kids love or make the curried butternut squash soup. But this year, we have done no such thing. In fact we haven’t made a single pumpkin related thing all fall. But then Holidays are sort of …