Course: dessert

A cake that is aromatic, full with flavors and moist is the perfect cake you can have. One such wonderful cake is LEMON POUND CAKE! Enriched with the goodness of lemon, this cake is a perfect tea time snack option and also a fabulous recipe for your children’s school short breaks. My family loves cakes, and also believes to explore new flavors in it. Lemon cake is one such fantastic recipe which i had tried after a long long time. Usually the lemon pound cakes are drizzled with sugary lemon sauce that gives a perfect bite and a glaze to…

These days it’s becoming a tough task to make your children eat fruits and drink milk. I struggle a lot with my son to feed him with fruits. The only fruit that my son loves to have is banana. But excess intake of banana often cause cough n cold to him that again becomes a new problem to solve. Fruits are very important part of our daily diet. Doctors and dieticians too suggest having lots of fruits in a day to improve our immunity system. After a long long struggle i finally figured out that my son is fond of…

As soon as my son enters any bakery shop, he goes crazy for chocolate mousse. Well i wont complain here much as i myself love mousse a lot. And what better it can be if it’s a chocolate mousse. Always wanted an easy recipe of chocolate mousse that needs no eggs. After a long search i finally found an amazing recipe in Sharmi’s Passion. The recipe was quick and so perfect. Though the original recipe was adapted by Sharmilee from Tarla Dalal’s website but the recipe i adapted is from http://www.sharmispassions.com/2015/02/eggless-chocolate-mousse-recipe.html The recipe was so easy and quick that i…

The festive season is on and Lord Ganesha has arrived. I have been seeing my friends making lots of sweets and desserts as offering to the God. Though Modak has a huge significance with the festival but apart from that there are various home made delicious sweets that can be offered to the Lord and make him happy. One of them is fresh home made aromatic Mysore Paak …Mysore pak is a rich sweet dish prepared in butter, from Southern India, usually served as dessert. It originated in Mysore. It is made of generous amounts of ghee, sugar, gram flour,…

. These days i am seeing lot of preparations being done for the welcoming of Ganpati. Ganpati Bappa is said to be a foodie. He loves all kinds of food, i have grown up watching Ganesh Festival being celebrated in my colony and neighborhood. The most innocent and sweet God who accepts all kinds of food happily. I remember my neighbor Aunty used to serve him Idli and Dosai in prasad. Have also seen many offering a variety of sweets to the humble God with so much love and devotion. So when it is Ganpati around why go hunting for…

It’s been a year i last updated SHEER KURMA recipe on my blog. The pics that time were horrible as i took them from my phone camera and even the recipe writing part was very childish and not up to the mark. This year i decided to re shoot the old recipes and update in blog. Whole Ramadan i went busy and on Eid i went to my mom’s place to celebrate. Again missed a chance to shoot the sheer kurma. Finally, today i decided to make sheer and get it properly shot. So alas my old recipe got a…

With the onset of festivals, comes a season of sweets and desserts. I always had a fear of making kaju katlis at home, though them to be some rocket science….unless until i found the recipe of my dearest friend Farrukh Aziz from “Cubes N Juliennes”. Recently she made some amazing Kesar Kaju Katlis, that inspired me to try my hands on too. Her recipe was one of the most finest and easiest recipe i came across. Though her’s was saffron flavored and i tried doing some innovation to the recipe by adding a chocolaty touch to the traditional sweet. The…

RAKSHA BANDHAN is round the corner and everybody must be exited for it. I’m sure many might have already planned the menu as well for their beloved brothers. From past few days i have been seeing everywhere on social media, ladies making amazing sweets for the occasion. Though i do’nt have a brother but i do have a right to celebrate the purity of the festival by making some pure home made sweets. Raksha Bandhan is the festival where the sister ties a knot of love and faith on his brother’s wrist. The pious thread is known as Rakhi. These…

A HALWA a day keeps my tensions away….lol Coming from a gastronomic family, my love for food has been well defined by now. For those who are new to my blog, lemme tell you all that sweets and desserts is my most favorite column in my blog. You will find the maximum number of posts in this category …lol My mom says that my dad had a strong tooth. Though after his ailments he was restricted to diet food but his longings for sweets and desserts have certainly passed on to me and my sister. So keeping the family tradition…

CHEFS ACROSS BOUNDARIES is a group of budding chefs who willingly came together to explore the cuisines of India and across the globe. From past many months the group has been conducting monthly challenges based on both National n International cuisines hosted by the members. After last month’s amazing Japanese show down hosted by me, this month’s theme challenge was DUTCH CUISINE, set by the very talented and my dearest friend Sindhu Sriram of http://www.neemandturmeric.blogspot.in/ I would like to take this opportunity to thank Sindhu for letting me explore the world of Dutch Cuisines, believe me it was an amazing…

Time to celebrate my blog’s 200th post with some gooey fudgey brownies with chocolate chunks. What better way can it be to celebrate with something i love the most…. The journey by far has been the most amazing one, the blog has given me everything i could have ever desired for. Though Spoon Fork And Food was started almost a year and a half before just to keep my sanity in check, but slowly slowly it became one of the most important part of my life. My 100th post was also celebrated by making a cake, but the journey from…

GIL-E-FIRDAUS also commonly known as Kesar Firni is a pudding made by grounded rice, lots of dry fruits and saffron. It’s thick as compared to the normal Rice Kheer, garnished with lots of dry nuts and rose petals, it is served chilled in various festivals and special occasions. The Firni is rich, creamy, rose scented and loaded with lots of chopped dry nuts. In my house Firni is preferred more than rice keer. It’s served chilled hence the consistency become more thick after getting into the refrigerator….. simply divine. I usually make Firni is a large quantity so that we…