Archives of BAKING

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

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

Double Chocolate Cookies

Rich, dark, a little soft and intensely chocolatey – you might as well call them cookie brownies. I was to take a nicer photo, but you’re stuck with the Instagram rendition because like every rushed Friday Lunches morning (where things start as early as 4AM), these cookies were baked, packed up and and on their […]
13 years ago

Strawberry + Raspberry Eton Mess

One of the best things about summer in Europe is without a doubt the berries and stone fruits. I can alternate berries and stone fruits all summer long and not feel the need to eat anything else. From my visit to the farm over the weekend, I got a punnet of strawberries and raspberries each. The […]
13 years ago

Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding

Need a ultra simple dessert that comes together in a matter of minutes and also doubles up as comfort food? This throw-it-together dessert might help: creamy bread pudding with chocolate.
13 years ago