Amma usually made a cake for our birthdays-mostly a vanilla sponge cake with butter cream icing topped with ‘hundred and thousands beads’. In keeping with this ‘tradition’ November is a month of cake! With four people in my life having a birthday this month, equals a cake every week! This […]
Cakes
Which Types of Flour to Use for Baking
What is the Difference Between Cake Flour and Bread Flour? Walk into the flour section of any supermarket and you find most often find a choice of different flours to choose from. White flour-cake flour-bran flour to name a few-but what is the difference between them and how will it […]
Eggless Chocolate Cupcake Recipe
One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learnt from spending time in Amma’s kitchen was that you can do anything (if you set your mind to it), not just in life but in the kitchen too. Whenever Amma didn’t have any ingredient she always found a substitute or some ingenious […]