Round up of Bake Fest Part 1

I have been fortunate that I have hosted the popular  Bake Fest and humbled at the delicious link ups. Ill health has prevented me from commenting/ making the round up. in fact the number of entries I got was 94 and I was wondering how I will make the round up. So I kept postponing the inevitable...
The rest is history.
I have made this round up in bits and pieces. If it appears badly edited I apologize but I cannot go back and write all over again and again. Sitting and typing is difficult especially when you are in pain.
This is part 1 of the round up. Will add the rest of the links in the next post.
Thanks ladies.

When you see these amazing bakes that Sherin of KuksKitchen sent I was amazed. Such lovely bakes. Love them.
Black Forest Cake. 

Banana Muffins

Fairy Cakes

Braided Bread


The only way I knew Pina Colada was had in a drink but then you have Caroline Makes proving you wrong
Pina Colada cupcakes.

Pecan Puffs anyone? They are just the right size to fit in the hole in your tummy.


Kavitha of Foodmania  has made these delicious Mawa Cupcakes. They have you hending straight to the kitchen t make them.

Renuka of Pinch of salt left me in her own words Stumped when I saw this delicious Choux. Is it not a beauty to be admired? Well do eat it too if you make it and invite me too. For this is beyond me to make but right beside me to eat.

Ruchira Hoon Philip sent in this delicious Ginger and Jaggery Tea cakes. Tea cake I have heard of, ginger in my cake okay but jaggery? Do check it out ladies its delicious!!

My namesake Yes I am too at times called Achu who blogs at Tangy Minds has sent this sweet and delicious Raisins Beard Pudding. I hope she saves me a slice.
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If this is not enough she comes up with some beautifully coloured Colorful Swirl Cookies ans what more she has the step-wise pics too so you cannot go wrong.

You have heard of Fruit Cakes but Miss C Flash has dished out an amazing West Indian Fruit Cake which is lighter than the normal fruit cakes. Do check it out!


Vaishali of Ribbons and Pasta, does she need an intro? Well she has sent this delicious Creamed Onions. Yes Creamed Onions. Do have a look.

I wish I had the patience to make this next cake its amazing from Cook-Eat-Burrrp an Eggless Checkerboard cake .


Feeling like a pizza, in a mood to make it ?go straight to Harini's Sugar 'n' Spice and indulge yourself with this
delicious pizza.

Want something sweet then try this ode to Melting Moments. I wish I can sink my teeth in them.


Younger sisters are a treasure. They are your best friends so here is the cake that Amrita has made for her sis for her birthday Eggless Lemon cake

Her is another entry by Amrita Eggless Rose Cupcakes.


Sit up ladies we have Jagruti of Jagruti's Cooking Odyssey coming with her Stuffed Wholewheat Buns with Chickpeas and Spinach. Just delicious and whole wheat too.

Next time I bake a cake I wish it is this delicious Eggless Mango Pound Cake that Prasha has made. Its so mouthwatering!! Do check it out ladies.

Marija of Palachinka has linked this delicious Hungarian Shortbread. It is so yum looking that I have to try it out and soon.

I host an event any good friend Mythreyi does link up. Do check out her Almond Biscotti and enjoy your cuppa.

Sowmya of Nivedhanam has linked Dil Psaand/Dil Kush. It's just what I want to make for Diwali. Drool ladies.

Pari Cash of Indian Vegetarian  Recipes is celebrating her 100th post with a cake, of course what better way to celebrate? But this is different. Do have a look at the Cake with Curd.
 
Then she sends in her Mini Vanilla Cake platter. She is celebrating in a big way dears.

A lovely brownie that's the way I will like to end my meal. If its made as deliciously as it has been done here at Pure Vegetarian Bites kya baat hai! Eggless Brownies here I come.

Sangeetha of Spicy Treats treats you with Garlic Breadsticks. Just awesome.

Vijaylakshmi Dharmraj of Virunthu Unna Vaanga has linked her Wheat Biscuits. wit this I will stop having a problem with my girls eating biscuits at the odd hours that they have. So this one goes to bookmarks.

Ladies get set to see some Usual Fare in an Unusual Way Spiced and Baked Cauliflower Bhajas by Jagruti of The Turmeric Kitchen!

Now then we have Vardhini from Cooks Joy who has linked up this absolutely delight of a Peach Crumble. It has me drooling,

Now I am sure so are you... drooling I mean.

Drool on ladies I will post the second part soon.... More round up in my next post.Till then take care and...........DROOL! now make them all.

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Hi All,
This is to tell u gals that I have a strained ligament and the doctors have ruled out carpel tunnel. Sigh!!!what a relief!! I can dance with joy but then may have problems with my feet :)

Thanks all of you for your GOOD WISHES will comeback maybe by 15th Nov!!
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Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcake & A Break

For Baking Partners this time around we had to make Chocolate pumpkin cupcake with frosting. Of the 3 recipes we were give I choose  Priya R  of  Cook Like Priya suggested Chocolate pumpkin cupcake with orange cream cheese frosting from Country living.

The cupcakes were to be frosted but before they could cool down they had all disappeared in the tummies that were waiting at the first aroma of the baking cupcakes.

I had not lined the silicon moulds as I was unable to find any shop that was selling the liners of the size of my moulds. The muffins were so light and delicious that the fact that we could not un-mould them bid not deter anyone. The cupcakes were eaten right from the moulds. J

The only moulds that had the liners were these small ones and the only cupcakes that I had that were kept as my” models” as they are called.

Yields:   36 cupcakes

  Ingredients:

·       2 1/2 cup(s) all-purpose flour

●       1 cup(s) good-quality cocoa

●       1 tablespoon(s) bakingpowder

●       1 1/2 teaspoon(s) baking soda

●       2 1/4 teaspoon(s) ground cinnamon

●       3/4 teaspoon(s) fresh-grated nutmeg( I did not use)

●       3/4 cup(s) buttermilk

●       1 1/2 cup(s) pumpkin puree

●       1 1/2 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract

●       283grams salted butter, softened

●       1 1/2 cup(s) (firmly packed) dark brown sugar

●       1 1/2 cup(s) granulated sugar

●       5 large eggs

Directions:

1.    Heat oven to 160ºC. Since I bake in the convection side of my microwave I am baking at 160ºC else you will need to bake at 180ºC.

2.    Grease the muffin moulds and line with the paper liners.

3.     Sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon in a large bowl and set aside.

4.    Combine the buttermilk, pumpkin, and vanilla in a medium bowl and set aside.

5.    Beat the butter and sugar together in a large bowl, with an electric mixer until fluffy.

6.    Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition, until the mixture is smooth and light.

7.    Alternately add the flour mixture and buttermilk mixture, blending well after each addition.

8.     Divide the batter among the moulds and fill each with 1/4 cup of batter. Bake for 22 minutes or the toothpick inserted comes out clean.

I would like to announce that I will be taking a short break. With Carpel tunnel rearing its ugly head again I am scared and under a lot of pain so atleast for 15 days I will not be here. Please excuse me. Also I will try and read your posts but my comments will e something like yum or equally stupid but I hope you ladies will be understanding enough to accept the comment as something that I will be doing because it is so and I cannot be as vocal with my comments as I will like to be.

Linking this to Baking Partners



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Mousse~ A Blog Hop Week 21

For Blog Hop Wednesday Radhika paired me with Ruchira Hoon Phillip I was delighted as I was paired with someone I admired. Ruchira blogs at  Cookaroo  and she is amazing. If cooking is a passion then Ruchira is passion personified!

If you don’t believe me just check her recent posts where she has made a Flowerpot Cake, complete with the fondant flowers. The amount of patience she has to make these beautiful flowers and not to mention the research and the preparations (for one I hate the collecting of all the ingredients especially when I have to pick up things from two different parts of the city, thank Goa Panaji is a small place, but I still hate it). Then she has these Nutella Cake, brownies. These are just few examples there are many more. Do go through her place.

As I went through the blog I remembered a delicious mousse that I had seen and wanted to make for some time now but kept postponing. 

What better time than now and what better than chocolate.

Ruchira’s recipe serves 3 so I doubled her recipe.

I started by measuring out double the semi sweet chocolate, as the Supermarket has run out of my brand of Dark Chocolate and then opened the new packet of white chocolate.

 Can you imagine my shock to see no white chocolate inside?

 Then I read the cover and saw that it was milk compound and I assumed that white chocolate and milk compound is same. How I can make the same mistake again and again I do not know but there is some wiring problem in my brains I am sure.

Then I consoled myself as younger kid and I do not enjoy white chocolate that’s fine. Will have a shade darker mousse it will not black and white mousse but brown and light brown mousse.

Then as I was whipping the cream my elder daughter, Apeksha requested me not to make it just chocolate layers but to add a layer or whipped cream. So I ended up with 9 servings of mousse. 3 small and 6 big, small for the dieters and rest for us to hell with diet(ers).

Like most sweets in my house I expected there will not be many takers therein lay my mistake. Apparently the mousse was better than the local bakery; (“much much better” were the exact words! That is high praise from my 18 year old) and the mousse was much appreciated.

I am glad I took the pictures when I did for if I waited to setup my stage alias washing machine for my pictures …  I would have just post the recipe sans the pictures… for the pictures had to be taken today and by the time I came back from work there were empty glasses to greet me.  

For the original Black and White Mousse please click here.