This weekend was an eventful one -- we celebrated our friend's visit to Baltimore on Thursday night with some great food, went out to dinner at Papi's Taco Joint on Friday night, visited the Boordy Vineyards on Saturday afternoon, cooked a homestyle Arabic dinner, and made "The Cookie-and-Milk Cup" on Sunday afternoon. This cookie cup is [...]
I never liked how macarons tasted, but I loved how they looked -- pretty pastel colored cookies with frilly centers, almost like they just walked out of a dollhouse. A couple of weeks ago, I tried making French macarons for the first time following Chef Pierre Herme's world famous macaron recipe (Italian meringue method). I [...]
For the cake layer:Dry ingredients:1 1/2 cups - plain flour1 cup - sugar3 tbsp - unsweetened cocoa powder1 tsp – baking soda1/2 tsp - saltWet ingredients:6 tbsps - oil1 tbsp - white vinegar1 tsp - vanilla extract1 cup - ice cold water1) Mix all the ingredients very well with a whisk.2) Pour all the liquids [...]
White chocolate and raspberry is my favorite dessert combination in the world. I love how the sweetness of matte white chocolate and sourness of bright juicy raspberries complement each other. And, needless to mention how pretty they look together! DC vs. Baltimore food truck Saturday..out of the 50 trucks there, I had my eyes stuck [...]
My sister is a chocolate cake monster. I make a chocolate cake ever so often and every time I make it, she refuses to share. She finishes the entire cake herself in less than a day. And it pains to think about how ridiculously unhealthy it must be for her gut. So this time, for [...]
I love vanilla cake over any other type of cake. Love it to the extent that I once asked my sister to get me three loaves of plain vanilla pound cake as my birthday present. A perfect vanilla cake is one that is slightly dense in texture, buttery in taste and has an evenly browned [...]
Wintry Baltimore is finally starting to get warm and this weekend my mum and I are going to New Jersey to visit friends from Abu Dhabi. I love to bake, they love to eat and we love how perfectly this always works out! :) As per usual, I was having trouble figuring out what to make. [...]
My cousin recently got engaged and we are visiting her in-laws (to-be) in North Carolina this weekend. The last time she visited, her mom-in-law gifted her a cookie press and asked her to make some cookies using it and send her pictures. Well, that never happened, and being the biggest baking freak, I couldn't resist [...]
Once again today, like any other random day, I was in a high spirit for making a dessert that I had never attempted before. While I was driving to the grocery store, my mind deliberately activated its thought process, trying to figure out what to make. I felt as if several desserts were running a [...]
I was in the mood for making a dessert on a random evening last month. But I wanted to make something I had never made before. I had a bazillion desserts running through my mind but the evening was short and I had to figure out what to make. As I sat down trying to [...]
