All posts of Shaheen

Chocolate Chocolate Cake

Everybody must have a good chocolate cake recipe. Everybody. The kind that you scribble down in your notebook, the kind you memorise, the kind your friends keep asking you to make over and over again. And I think, that with this recipe, I’ve found one I love and can see myself going back to, time […]
12 years ago

Video! Blood Orange and Olive Oil Cake

[If you are reading this as an email or in your RSS reader, view the video on the blog] I’m so excited to share with you my first little film! Here’s what Arjun and I usually do on Sunday mornings: visit the Place des Fetes market and come home and make a meal together with […]
12 years ago

Recent Favourites {14.3.13}

I’ve been enjoying a few new things lately that I thought were worth a share. Japanese Ginger Grater Even if I just spoke about this ginger grater alone, I’d consider this a very worthy post. This Japanese grater is absolutely brilliant. I used to use my Microplane for grating fresh ginger, but was invariably stuck […]
12 years ago

Appelflappen

It’s safe to say that Appelflappen, or apple fritters, are my newest obsession. I’ve been making them everyday for the past three day, and sometimes more than just once a day. I’ve made so many different versions of them, I’m pretty sure I can fend any questions about them. Even about how it might be […]
12 years ago

Raspberry & Strawberry Swiss Roll Cake

I made a Swiss Roll Cake today and I’m happy to report that with this cake ends my spate of kitchen mishaps that were a part and parcel of getting acquainted with my new gas oven. I have made over-baked cookies and under-baked cakes that I tried to salvage them in whatever way I could […]
12 years ago

Pistachio, Almond and Chocolate Chunk Cake

I’ve been baking a lot lately: mostly making up for the times I couldn’t bake being stuck with a rickety oven and also in celebration of the fact that I can actually spread my arms out in the kitchen and not hit the wall. I think it’s the cold that’s making me bake loaf cakes […]
12 years ago

Chocolate Chestnut Loaf Cake, TV Appearance and My Orange Kitchen

Seems like whenever I make anything with chestnuts, a post on updates is in order. Here’s an update about a few recent and somewhat unrelated things. ** When I was back home in Bombay in January, I conducted a bunch of baking workshops. Readers from all over the country came over (yes, country! Delhi, Pune, […]
12 years ago

Meringues, Lots and Lots of Meringues

Just when I shot this photo of the little meringue babies, I knew this photo will end up being the opening shot of my feature in this month’s BBC Good Food Magazine. And it was. Here’s the recipe for the versatile vanilla bean meringues. Grab a copy of the Feb ’13 issue to get all […]
12 years ago

Special Event: The Purple Foodie Baking Workshops (Jan 19-20), Mumbai.

You have visited the page for an old baking class. To be notified of new baking classes, in India and around the world, enter your name and email at PurpleFoodie Baking Classes. I’m back home in Bombay for a short trip and I’m going to be conducting a few baking workshops! My suitcase from Paris […]
12 years ago