Chocolate Ganache is a french word for chocolate glaze or sauce. The primary ingredients are good quality chocolate and fresh heavy cream, as they are the two main ingredients, do not compromise on quality. Ganache is made by heating cream and then pouring it on top of chopped chocolate. It can be poured over cakes, drizzled over cheesecakes, brownies and ice cream or whipped to be used as a filling or icing for cakes and cupcakes. Also great for... Posts Tagged With 'Vanilla Extract'
Chocolate Ganache
Chocolate Ganache is a french word for chocolate glaze or sauce. The primary ingredients are good quality chocolate and fresh heavy cream, as they are the two main ingredients, do not compromise on quality. Ganache is made by heating cream and then pouring it on top of chopped chocolate. It can be poured over cakes, drizzled over cheesecakes, brownies and ice cream or whipped to be used as a filling or icing for cakes and cupcakes. Also great for... Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is rich and flavor-packed spice cake. It is made of grated carrots-nuts (walnuts or pecans) and usually paired with sweet cream cheese frosting. The pretty orange flecks of grated carrot give the Carrot Cake color and soft dense texture.
We loved our cake more the next day! So if are planning to bake the previous day, don’t worry! They don’t dry out instead the flavors soak in well. Also you can bake... Baklava
Baklava, a nuts filled Sweet made of phyllo pastry sheets sweetened with sugar-honey/agave syrup. Baklava is a popular Turkish dessert, made world-wide in different versions.
This is the same type of Baklava I had it in Oman when I lived there for few years. It’s sticky because of the syrup that’s poured on top and gooey and nutty in the center. You can see the layers of Phyllo sheets after every bite.
... Molten Lava Cupcake – Updated recipe
Updated recipe: Feb 13, 2015
This is an updated recipe and post. I mentioned in my post dated 2 years back that My cake did not burst with chocolate lava when cut open like shown in the original recipe which I followed but the ones I baked had a gooey center. I didn’t bother much as the cakes were moist and tasty. But the updated recipe had that fancy part I wished for: chocolate flowing out like lava.
... Tres Leches, A Mexican dessert
Tres Leches, meaning three milks in Spanish. Basically a sponge cake is soaked in a mixture of three milks and topped with freshly whipped cream. The cake is extremely dense and moist due to soaking the cake in rich ingredients like whole milk, evaporated milk and condensed milk combined together.
We tried this delicacy from Whole foods, yum! Immediately it hit the list of “must try at home”. Few things I was confident about this recipe was... The Team
A common idea we share is - Eating is about feeling good and not just following the rules of cooking. more...