Nankhatai is a traditional Indian-style shortbread made to celebrate occasions like Raksha Bandhan or Diwali (or any occasion that needs something sweet!). These cookies are known as sweet, buttery cardamom infused biscuits that gently crumble and melt in your mouth. It is as delicious as it sounds. I have made these to celebrate Raksha Bandhan…
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Chai Spiced Carrot Cupcakes with Cardamom & Rose Infused Cream Cheese Frosting
This sounds like a mouthful, but, if you love carrot cake, you will love this recipe! It is definitely an upgrade from your typical carrot cake! Firstly, this is made with chai masala spice. This means, it’s got cardamom, cassia cinnamon, ginger and pepper – everything you find in typical Indian chai. I paired this…
Healthy(ish) Halloween Snacks
Here are 5 treats you’d love to try out for you and your family this Halloween. They’re fun and easy to make!
Easy Vegan Mooncake Recipe
Mooncakes are a traditional Chinese delicacy, offered during the Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the four very important Chinese festivals. Mooncakes are a sweet crusty baked pastry with a rich red bean paste or lotus seed paste stuffing, with a round salted egg yolk inside. Usually, it is about 10cm in diameter, and moulded using a…
Simple Chocolate Cookies (with vegan alternatives)
I always crave something chocolaty after dinner, to finish the last meal of the day. This recipe is perfect whenever you are craving just that. It is easy, with the perfect amount of sweetness. For those of you who are strictly gluten-free, you may use a gluten-free flour for this recipe, and for those who…
Pink Velvet Milk Chocolate Cookies
For this special Valentines at home, spend an easy 30 minutes baking these deliciously moist pink cookies with your loved ones. These cookies are made with Lindt milk chocolate chips and only take 10 minutes to bake. A dairy-free version of this recipe is also written out here. Serves 12 | 30 minutes | Ingredients:…
Pistachio Pudding Cake with Cashew Cream (vegan)
This cake is pudding-like moist, but definitely not short of any flavour. It is very much on par with a lot of the pistachio cream cakes out there, but the difference: this has almond flour and low-GI sugar! The cashew cream as frosting is the best combination for this cake, adding that perfect extra bit…
Rose Coconut Ladoos (lactose-free)
Ladoos are a flour or semolina based sweet that is served for celebratory occasions like Diwali, they are by far the most popular type of mithai in India, and there are several variations of it! Lord Ganesh is the God we pray to whenever we start new beginnings or embark on a new journey, and…
Haldi and Matcha Coconut Barfi (lactose-free)
Barfi is a milk-based sweet from India, served as mithai (celebratory sweets). There are a number of variations of this, from using mixed nuts, fruits and different flours. ‘Barfi’ in Persian actually means snow, so this mithai traditionally incorporates white sugar and condensed milk to form little snow sweets. This version of mine is dairy-free,…
The most chewy oatmeal and cranberry cookies you’ll ever make!
Comfort cookies to indulge with. These cookies are super easy to make, and has got the best kind of crunch. You can add nuts and other fried fruits to mix it up.