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See my recipe tutorial below that includes helpful step by step photos, all the tips you need, and plenty of fun ideas on how to customize them too! What you need to make this recipe Chocolate – I semi-sweet chocolate for this and you can use either chips, chunks, or chop up a chocolate bar. If you prefer a more intense chocolate taste you can use bittersweet chocolate instead. Chocolate milk powder – this is used to fill the chocolate bombs, you’ll find it in most supermarkets....

Buttercream Starts Looking Ragged: When you’re doing the final smoothing and you notice the texture of the buttercream become a bit ragged there’s an easy fix! Get a bowl of HOT water and dip your tools in to to warm them up. pat dry and smooth. The warm metal will melt the buttercream and give you a nice SMOOTH finish. It Was ALMOST Perfect: If things are starting to go left STOP!...

Baklava is on the list of my top 5 favorite desserts of all time. Layers of butter-basted crispy phyllo dough with a cinnamon-scented ground nut mixture. And when you pick up that first piece and look and those delicious little diamonds that are perfectly segmented with distinct layers of nuts and crispy phyllo sheets, it makes your heart sing. I’ll say this upfront. There’s more than one way to make baklava....

Love chocolate desserts? Then you’ve got to try my Double Chocolate Chip Cookies and my Chocolate Covered Cheesecake Bites! Easy and Delicious Homemade Chocolate Croissants Yes, this just happened. Chocolate stuffed in a pie crust (homemade or frozen) and rolled into the shape of crescent rolls. There is just one word for these. Amazing! They are a cross between a cookie and a crescent roll, similar to the French delicacy, pains au chocolat, or chocolate croissants....

The Best Homemade Sushi Rice Making the perfect sushi rice at home is actually so simple! In just a few simple steps, you can make perfectly sticky, tangy rice to use in sushi rolls, ahi tuna stacks, or nigiri. This is short-grain rice that becomes slightly sticky when cooked, allowing it to hold together when forming sushi rolls. This texture is essential for creating sushi that doesn’t fall apart! The secret here is that the rice is seasoned with a mixture of rice vinegar, honey, and salt, which adds a subtle sweetness and tanginess....

There are many different languages and dialects in India so therefore there are many words for tadka (Hindi) like thalipu (Tamil), tarka (Urudu), chaunk (also Hindi), and many more. I’ve given you a decision tree down below which will give you options for oils that you can choose based on your use case. Thickest Spices and Aromatics (Added in the beginning) Black Peppercorn (Whole) - Add a subtle peppery taste to the dish Cinnamon Stick - Add a comforting, warming, back of the throat spice Cardamom Pod (Whole) - Add a sweetness and floral taste Cloves - Add a bitter and licorice-y taste Split Urad Dal - Nuttiness....

Can’t get enough cobbler? Check out Maple Peach Cobbler! Plum Recipes Plums have got to be one of the most under appreciated summer fruits yet they are inexpensive, accessible and taste delicious when ripe! My grandparents grew a lot of fruits and vegetables in the summer with various success. The only fruit trees that never failed were plum trees. Every summer my mother and grandmother were left with buckets of plums to preserve, which they usually turned into plum jam, baked into pies and mixed into breakfast porridges....

The most delicious harvest salad with tons of pomegranate arils, roasted sweet potatoes, diced apples, and toasted pecans. We’re drizzling it with a bright and fresh tasting orange dressing that makes this salad extra perfect to serve during the holidays! Today’s post is sponsored by Simply Beverages™ and SheKnows Media. And here it is: the perfect holiday side dish! Hold on tight because I’ve got a crunchy, zingy, bright, and fresh harvest salad comin’ your way....

I really should be thankful to my wonderful, food-loving husband for helping me find these delicious and different bread for my blog. When looking to bake for the alphabet L, I wanted something savory. We have had enough of the sweet bread and pastries and we no longer had any appetite for it this week. That is when my husband found this vegan and very simple bread called Lagana, which is baked for Clean Monday, the first day of Lent before Easter....

If you love this recipe, then try my Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes and my Air Fryer Buffalo Cauliflower Bites! Loaded Cauliflower Bake If you need to feed many people at once and want a delicious, veggie packed option, then this recipe is for you! I am telling you, this loaded cauliflower bake is full of flavor despite being low carb. I have always liked using cauliflower as a substitute for rice or potatoes due to its flavor and texture, but it can get boring sometimes!...

Even if your macaron cookies come out of the oven looking totally wrong they’ll still be delicious if not picture perfect. If you have extra almond flour then try my homemade almond cookies! What You’ll Need to Make These Egg Whites- Make sure the weigh them using a kitchen scale. Aging egg whites for macarons is an important step. Separate the eggs, place the whites in a clean glass, cover with plastic wrap with a few holes poked in and let them hang out in the fridge for a few days before using....

This post contains affiliate links. When you purchase through our links, we may earn a commission. Travel leads to great revelations of what exotic fruit and vegetables are supposed to taste like. My love affair with mangos began in the Philippines more than a decade ago. To this day I haven’t been able to find mangos as sweet, fragrant and juicy as the ones I was able to enjoy daily during my year there....

Chocolate Marble Banana Bundt Cake I love banana bread and I also love marble cake, but only when it’s moist and soft. I must admit that I am not a big fan of the classic marble cake which is often quite dry and at the same time buttery (which I don’t like). So my creation is not a classic marble cake recipe, but rather a banana bundt cake with a chocolate marble, yum!...

There are so many different varieties of rasam out there from parappu (lentil) rasam to pineapple rasam. For these rasams, it is common to use a rasam powder to flavor the broth. This is a spice blend that definitely comes in handy and when it is a homemade recipe it makes a good rasam great! Simple rasam without rasam powder This rasam recipe does not use rasam powder; instead, it uses Milagu and jeera....

Miso and vegetables is a pairing made in heaven. For definitive proof, try Miso Roasted Carrots! I’ve been playing around with miso paste in a lot of recipes lately. There are simply few better ways that I have found to add heaps of mouthwatering savoury flavours to so many dishes. As an added bonus, it is unfussy to work with, meaning that good results can be achieved with a minimum of effort....

A Few Hints and Tips If you want to add a little something extra to the recipe you can hollow the cupcake out and fill it with chocolate ganache. I use a cupcake corer for this but a spoon or large piping tip works too. To make the chocolate ganache melt half a cup of nice chocolate with a third a cup of cream and spoon into the hollowed out cupcake....

I found some fresh radish (mullangi) in my local Indian store. The radish was very tender with fresh greens attached to it. I usually remove the greens and just buy the radish, but this time I bought back the greens as well. I remember seeing a recipe in the Mallika Badrinath book for mullangi raita where she had used raw radish. This recipe is a slightly jazzed-up version. The recipe paired very well with the Tomato Biriyani I had made for lunch....

This week I am doing famous breakfast dishes from different places and this is my first post under the theme. I had made this Neer Dosai a long time ago when amma was here and had taken pictures, but I never got around to blogging. I seem to have lost the pictures as well and so here I am making it again. We are a cereal-eating family for breakfast and hence it was very hard for me even think of what dishes people usually eat for breakfast....

Love vegetarian noodle dishes? Try my Zucchini Noodle Stir Fry for a low-carb option, and my Vegetable Chow Mein tastes just like takeout but is much healthier! Stir-fries are so easy to make. That’s why I love them. They are perfect for fast weeknight meals. This Vegetarian Noodle Stir Fry is fast and healthy. Colorful tender vegetables, crunchy peanuts, and whole wheat noodles make this the perfect combination. For the rainbow vegetables, I used edamame, green onion, red cabbage, carrots, and yellow and red bell peppers....

If you love fresh homemade cookies, chewy peanut butter cookies and my thick chocolate chip walnut cookies! The BEST Oatmeal Cookies! The thought of adding chocolate chips to my oatmeal cookies never crossed my mind until someone requested them as a dessert for Christmas. To me, oatmeal cookies should have walnuts, raisins, etc.. but chocolate chips? Never! However, I obliged. I took my favorite oatmeal cookie recipe and threw in some chocolate chips....