Jalebi Cupcakes filled with creamy rabdi make the ultimate festive treat! These cardamom flavored eggless cupcakes are filled with a thick instant rabdi, topped with creamy saffron scented frosting and decorated with jalebi on top!
In the recent years, there has been so much interest in Indian fusion desserts. I have to admit, that it’s one of my favorite things to bake too. I can’t get enough of mixing Indian mithai flavors with cakes,...
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The cookie version of mawa cake, these cookies are filled with warm spices like cardamom and saffron and flavored with mawa (milk solids). These eggless Mawa Cake Cookies are best enjoyed with chai!
I love baking with Indian flavors, they are some of my favorite. The Indian festive season gives me the perfect time and opportunity to play with flavors and bake my heart out.
Last Diwali, I shared this...
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Welcome fall with this easy Vegan Pumpkin Bread. Baking this bread fills your kitchen with the wonderful aroma of spices. It’s soft and moist and just perfect to enjoy with a cup of coffee!
My favorite season is here aka the pumpkin season. I love baking this time of the year, although now I don’t bake as much as I used to, yet when the air turns cooler, I feel like turning on my oven more often.
Last weekend, I felt like having a...
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Filled with summer strawberries, these simple Eggless Strawberry Muffins make the perfect snack. Enjoy them with a cup of chai or a glass of milk. These are also made with whole wheat and are nut-free.
When summer fruits are in season, we go overboard with them. I love going to Farmers Market every weekend and get a huge stock of fruits. Berries, cherries, stone fruits, there’s so much to choose from. I found Tayberry at my farmers market last week, I had...
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Simple Eggless Chocolate Lava Cake with a molten chocolaty center!
These cakes are easy to make and pretty to look at. Serve with ice-cream and berries for an indulgent treat.
Lava Cakes are one of my favorite things to eat (and bake)! There’s this place in Seattle which sells lava cakes exclusively and we go there often when...
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Vegan Ragi Cookies with made with ragi (finger millet flour), atta, jaggery and vegan butter.
These are extremely easy to make and a healthier alternative to store bought chai time cookies. They are also great as snack and are refined sugar-free!
I am back with yet another easy homemade cookie recipe. Every January, I try to cut refined sugar from my diet, it’s because I eat way...
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Eggless Tutti Frutti Sooji Cake made with 100% semolina!
No flour, no butter and no eggs needed to make this simple semolina cake which goes so well with a cup of tea.
I always have a big bag of tutti frutti in my refrigerator. In the earlier years when I moved to the US, tutti frutti was not all that readily available at Indian stores. But now I easily find them at all...
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Eggless Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies made with rolled oats, flour, butter and sugar!
These cookies are super soft and perfect to dunk in milk.
I wasn’t aware of soft cookies until I moved to the US. Growing up in India, we had biscuits (British influence) and they were always crispy.
So I never associated the term “soft” with...
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Buttery melt-in-mouth Eggless Danish Butter Cookies! These cookies require only 5 ingredients are one of my favorite treats to bake for the holidays.
They are also perfect for gifting to your friends and family.
It’s the season for homemade cookies. I love baking cookies especially during this time of the year.
I...
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Crunchy & buttery, these eggless Cake Rusk and chai are a match made in heaven.
Made with only few pantry ingredients, these are so much better when homemade.
I cannot have my chai plain, I mean I always need some munchies along with.
Whether it’s chivda, cookies or rusks. These eggless cake rusks are my current favorite, I just cannot stop eating...
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Crispy cookies bursting with flavors of coconut and rose! These Coconut Rose Cookies are ideal for gifting during the festive season.
They are lightly sweetened and filled with a sweet aroma from the rose water.
We all love cookies, don’t we? I never need a reason to bake them but the festive season gives that extra nudge to bake some.
Nankhatai is my favorite Indian cookie, the flavors of ghee, cardamom and that...
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Eggless Mawa Cake- a tea time cake made with mawa (milk solids) and flavored with cardamom and saffron and nuts.
This is a popular cake from Irani/Parsi cafe and bakeries in India.
Indian inspired dessert are my favorites. It of course has to do with the fact that these flavors are more familiar to me and hence they appeal more to my taste buds.
Cardamom,...
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