Apple Gur Shakkar Cake
This Apple Cake made with powdered jaggery is moist, not very sweet, and makes for the perfect snacking cake!
Rasmalai Cake
Rasmalai is an Indian dessert, and here I’ve adapted Melissa Clark’s recipe for Rasmalai Cake to make my version. It’s amazing how one bite of this cake will you feel like your are tucking into the richest, best ras malai you can ever find!
Chocolate ‘Old Monk’ Rum Balls (No-Bake)
 Leftover chocolate cake gets a major makeover when you add some dark rum, raisins that have been soaked in rum (it’s all about rum, here) and coat it with some dark chocolate. For me, the ONLY rum for rum balls has to be Old Monk, and there’s a bit of condensed milk in there too!
Italian Sponge Cake (Pan di Spagna) & My Baking Classes
Just when I feel like I know all that there is to know about a sponge cake, I come across a recipe for this beautiful, light and airy sponge that doesn’t have any butter, oil, baking powder or soda! It relies completely on how well you whisk the egg and sugar together. It’s essentially just eggs,
Cocoa Fudge Cake
Remember when I baked this Banana Bread, imagining it to be something Mad Men’s Betty Draper would have stashed away? Back then, I was binge-watching episodes of Mad Men when it aired late in the night. A strange thing
Ottolenghi’s Fig Cake with Extra Figs in Red Wine Syrup
I have a few culinary heroes that I constantly harp about to anybody who’s willing to listen… Vikas Khanna leaves me mesmerized with his almost spiritual take on food; Julia Child will always remain a culinary and personal inspiration; Jamie Oliver for always cooking from the heart… And then… there’
Happy Birthday, Mom! – Lemon & Candied Ginger Bundt Cake
My Mom and I are both fans of candied ginger and always tend to have some lying around the house. Luckily for us, nobody else around us seems to be into it. Great! More for us, I say! So when I spotted this recipe, I knew right away that nobody would appreciate it more than Mom and earmarked it to b
Strawberry Cake
December air is always filled with so many things… the weight of the year gone by, the expectations of the year to come, celebrations with friends and family who make their way back home for the holidays and a general slowing down of pace in the last few days of the year. Taking time off work in Dec
Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake
It’s the sort of thing I was trying to keep myself from doing, but being the Type A that I am, I couldn’t stop myself from baking a birthday cake for me! I promise you, but mostly myself, that I tried really hard to delegate this task to my Mum and might have even bragged to friends about year 31 fi
Diwali Baking: Indian Spiced Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Cardamom, ginger, caraway seeds, cinnamon… if one was ever asked to capture the essence of ‘mithai’ in a cake, this would be it!