Pizzais a flatbread generally topped with tomato sauce and cheese and baked in an oven. It is commonly topped with a selection of meats, vegetables and condiments. The term was first recorded in the 10th century, in a Latin manuscript from Gaeta in Central Italy. The modern pizza was invented in Naples, Italy, and the dish and its variants have since become popular in many areas of the world [source – wikipedia] A pizza dough is usually made with APF and yest. The yeast is activated and then mixed with APF and set to rise. Later rolled into a base…
Ingredient: baking powder
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A doughnut or donutis a type of fried dough confectionery or dessert food. The doughnut is popular in many countries and prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty outlets. Donuts are usually deep-fried from a flour dough, and typically either ring-shaped or without a hole, and often filled. Other types of batters can also be used, and various toppings and flavorings are used for different types, such as sugar, chocolate, or maple glazing. In addition to flour, doughnuts may also include such ingredients as water,…
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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…
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These days my family demands something sweet after every meal. If i make cakes, it get’s finished in no time…lol. Btw, whatever sweet i make it gets over too quickly. Today again my son came up with a demand for cookies. He is a big fan of custard and that was his first choice today for obvious reasons. Didn’t had a single fruit at home today… so what? Let’s make something that tdoesn’t need any fruit, will fulfill the sweet craving too and will taste custard….Wohoooo! A CUSTARD COOKIE A cookie that is crunchy yet melt in mouth and gives…
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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…
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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…
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During Ramadan the house was flooded with Dates and Plums. After having tried lots of smoothies, chutneys, dips etc…this time i wanted to bake a cake using these fruity goodness.I have always been fascinated by the Plum cake made during Christmas, the gooey texture and the fruity aroma is simply divine and heavenly. So how about adding dates and plums together in a cake …. ??? So just a day before Eid and of course on my lil sister’s demand, i just put on my aprons and Baked this heavenly dessert. It took me around 35 mins to get a…
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I simply love baking… believe me it’s a addiction. Once you start baking and get your hands set on your oven, that is when you get addicted. For me baking is something which was once a nightmare. But gradually i took over my fear and Woohaa! here i am. I gguess in my blog after desserts, baking is the maximum post carrying category. If someday it really happens, i would love to die eating chocolate. Chocolate in any form is worth dying for. Like me, my son is also a big time chocolate fan. Every second day he asks me…
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What do u do with those extremely ripe bananas..? Well i prefer to bake them. And when it comes to baking, what better than a Banana Bread Loaf! Well the banana cake resembles a banana bread bcz of its texture. Though the ingredients is same as a cake but it’s a bread. Banana bread is a type of bread that is made with mashed fully ripe bananas. It is often a moist, sweet, cake-like quick bread; however, there are some banana bread recipes that are traditional-style yeast breads. Well there’s an interesting history behind banana bread… Wikipedia says Banana bread…
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Dorayaki(どら焼き, どらやき, 銅鑼焼き, ドラ焼き) is a type of Japanese confection, а red-bean pancake which consists of two small pancake-like patties made from castella wrapped around a filling of sweet Azuki red bean paste. Dorayaki are similar to Imagawayaki, but the latter are cooked with the batter completely surrounding the bean paste filling and are often served hot. The original Dorayaki consisted of only one layer. Its current shape was invented in 1914 by Usagiya in the Ueno district of Tokyo. In Japanese, dora means “gong”, and because of the similarity of the shapes, this is probably the origin of the…
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Baking is a serious addition. I still remember the time when baking seemed to be my biggest nightmare. But in past one year i started working hard on my baking skills and today i m almost addicted to it…lol Cake baking is something in fond of the most. I have been trying lots of different cake recipes in past one year. Chocolate cake has been one of my most passionate and favorite one. Even the blog’s baking category consists of different chocolate cake recipes the most. Recently i came across a friend who asked me for the recipe of eggless…
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Semolina Cake aka Basboosa has been a favorite dessert in many Middle Eastern and North African countries. Its very simple and easy to remember. A perfect evening snack for fussy kids. Semolina cake recipes are deliciously easy to make, yet uniquely impressive. Semolina cakes have a lovely texture that is distinctly different than cakes make with plain flour. It can be made in different flavors by adding lemon or orange zest etc. Since a long time i were wanting to make a semolina cake with coconut that i ate once long back at my friends house. She briefed me with…