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Apple and Cinnamon Beignets with Cinnamon Sugar and Butterscotch Sauce
For as long as I can remember, I have associated rains with comfort food. And comfort for me means warm, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, deep-fried, with a hint of spice...that kind of food. The category of food that best fits this kind of craving would be fritters, beignets or pakoras … Read More
Smoked Salmon Scotch Eggs with Orange Radicchio Salad
If you love entertaining and look for recipes that are simple yet impressive, I've got just that for you today. Scotch eggs are great as a starter or a snack or even a side dish. Typically, a Scotch egg is a hard boiled egg encased in sausage meat mixture, crumbed and deep fried. Of course there are … Read More
Gluten Free Bittersweet Chocolate Chunk and Pecan Torte
I hope you all had a lovely weekend. Some of you on the other side of the hemisphere had a long one. I wish ours was as long but nevertheless it was a fantastic one. We celebrated Father's day here in Australia on Sunday. Since my little ones are getting better at keeping secrets we had quite a … Read More
Mixed Berry and Cardamom Kulfi (Ice Cream) Popsicle
Ever since I came back from my trip to India I have been craving more and more Indian food...the spicy curries, the mouth-watering street food and most of all the sweet treats. The part of India where I have lived for the most part of my life is famous for its sweet shops that fill up every nook and … Read More
Eggless Chocolate and Passion Fruit Melting Moments
I am back home after a super hectic yet wonderful trip. After eating plenty of good food and gorging on sweets, I would have loved to post a few Indian recipes. Those are sure to follow but today I wanted to post these Melting Moments. Sugar et al has completed 6 months today and a half anniversary was the perfect excuse for me to look back, go through my previous posts and recipes and assess how far I have travelled since I started out. Its been such an amazing journey with the new things that I learnt along the way, the wonderful people who I came across, the different cuisines, creativity, thoughts, ideas that I find everywhere. Funny that I didn't even know that such a beautiful place existed on the Internet before I started. I so love this blog-o-sphere as much as I love you all. I am my own critic. Will it be exaggeration if I tell you that so much of the food I cook and photograph don't make it to my blog? If I am not happy with the way a dish looks it will not be posted and I will start working on something else. I make a rare exception if the recipe is unique or has taken a great deal of effort to make or the gap between my posts are significantly long. So … Read More
Mocha Mousse with Coffee Glazed Hazelnuts and Cocoa Tuile
Isn't it ironical that I am posting about coffee when my morning coffee has just been replaced by a cup of masala chai (spiced tea)! Life has been wonderful. Despite travelling 5000 miles over, I am anything but jet lagged and loving every bit of my break. So have I been missing coffee? Well, not really. I did make sure I had loads of it in my dessert, before I left. This is the first time I am contributing to the Chocolate Party hosted by Roxana's Home Baking and I couldn't be more excited. Chocolate is one word that is probably scribbled all over my blog and has the most number of recipes dedicated to it. When I learnt the secret ingredient for August was coffee, I didn't want to miss it though I knew it would be a little early on a vacation to open my laptop and think 'blog'. So I prepared my dessert and photographed it well ahead in time. I love this pairing! Needless to say it's a decadent, rich mousse, heady with the triple dose of coffee. If you love coffee, this is the dessert for you. To make it totally coffee-ish I glazed the hazelnuts (along with a few cashew nuts) with a bitter-sweet coating of coffee and baked them to crispness. One spoonful of this and … Read More
Jaffa Cupcakes. Chocolate Cupcakes with an Orange Chocolate Ganache and Orange Buttercream.
A candy inspired cupcake! That's what I have for you today. I wouldn't like to call myself a big fan of candies but I love what they can do to my cupcakes. Chocolate-Orange is a classic combination...they have the capacity to elevate a dessert by flavour alone. I may have liked to call these 'double everything cupcakes' because if you notice, they have double flavours, double frosting (a glaze and a buttercream) and even the decor is twice that of a typical cupcake. But then the stand out here is the Jaffa. Look how bright and glossy they look. If you are unfamiliar with Jaffa, they are an orange and chocolate flavoured candy (see in the pictures), pretty popular in Australia. What sets them apart are their bright reddish-orange colour, hard exterior and unique flavour. The cupcakes I have created are chocolate cupcakes that are dipped in orange and dark chocolate ganache, topped with orange buttercream and decorated with a Jaffa. So basically, you experience a similar taste sensation as you bite into them. So along with some speed baking and speed posting, I am super speed prepping for my upcoming trip. I am not sure if it's all the sugar working its magic or the … Read More
No Bake Oreo Cheesecake Strawberry Mousse Duo
If you have been with me for a while now, you would know how much I like dressing up my desserts. Layers, swirls, drizzles, sprinkles...I can go on adding elements as long as they balance each other out. It's like my favourite playtime fun as a little girl...dressing up my dolls in pink,with lace and frills, matching hairclips and shoes and so. I come up with ideas and love watching it all come together. Some turn out as I visualised, some don't but there's always a learning somewhere. Till about a couple of years ago my desserts would never go below 4 layers. I had the time and the patience. It's a different situation now with two little heads constantly peeping into the refrigerator and wanting to know when they can eat. The refrigerator door is opened and re-opened at frequent intervals. The reason.. ' I'm checking if it has set'. I am loving the latest additions to the vocabulary. However, the more important reason is that I have 'borrowed' Oreo cookies for my dessert. So you understand, everybody has an equal claim to it. This is a big dessert but not really heavy. The cheesecake is on the richer side on account of the cream cheese so I decided to go with a … Read More
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