Spice 'n Sugar

Brownies are all time favorite delicacies. These are the most decadent fudgy and chewy brownies! Fudgy Brownies Servings: 16 Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: 30-32 minutes Difficulty: Easy Print The most decadent fudgy and chewy brownies Ingredients Unsalted butter – 175 gms at room temperature Semi sweet chocolate – 115 gms (chopped coarsely) Granulated sugar – 400 gms Eggs – 3 at room temperature Vanilla essence – 2 tsp Unsweetened cocoa powder – 85 gms Flour – 125 gms Salt

Fluffy Pancakes Servings: 14 nos. Time: 30 minutes Difficulty: Easy Print Mouth watering pancakes with honey / maple syrup Now a days, our Sunday also starts very early since my younger son has his classes in the morning. Today I decided to make simple but healthy breakfast of Fluffy Pancakes served with honey and maple syrup. Pancakes can also be served by garnishing it with fresh fruits, fruit crush or jelly etc… Ingredients – Flour / Maida – 2 cups – Milk – 1/2 cup – Egg –

White Chocolate & Nuts Blondies Servings: 12-15 Time: 90 minutes Difficulty: Medium Print Blondies are similar to chocolate browine where cocoa powder is replaced with vanilla. These are the fudgy beauties Ingredients – White chocolate – 175 gms (finely chopped) – Unsalted butter – 115 gms (softened) – Powdered sugar – 100 gms – Eggs – 2 (lightly beaten) – Vanilla essence – 1 tsp – Baking powder – 1/2 tsp – Maida – 130 gms – Cashew Nuts – 50 gms (roughly chopped) – Almonds –

Fresh Fruit Tart Servings: 8 slices Time: 90 minutes Difficulty: Easy Print December has already started and it is the season for fresh strawberries. This weekend, I decided to make Fresh Fruit Tart. I considered using fresh strawberries, mulberries, kiwi and dragon fruit for the topping. Ingredients For Pastry Crust – Maida (all purpose flour) – 200 gm – Unsalted Butter – 150 gm – White sugar – 50 gm – Salt – 1/8 tsp – Egg – 1 – Cold water – 2 tbsp For Pastry Cream – Milk –

Servings: 12 nos. Time: 3 hours Difficulty: Medium Print This Sunday we planned to have brunch at home rather than conventional lunch and finalised on loaded Waffles, Chicken Schnitzel and bacon. I had once read waffle recipe by Gary Mehigan (one of the hosts from Masterchef Australia) and decided to adapt the same. The result is what you see in the picture…. Ingredients 1 teaspoon castor sugar 250 gm plain flour ½ teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon active dry yeast (I used Blue Bird

Donuts / Doughnuts Servings: 12 nos. Time: 90 minutes Difficulty: Medium Print Tasty and light donuts Recently I have been hearing about many outlets selling donuts in Bangalore and people going “mad over donuts” :-)…..So, I decided to try making these donuts which turned out to be relatively simple. There is no baking but deep frying involved in this recipe (of course we can make baked donuts as well but I deep fried them). Donut can be termed something in between bread and

Pavlova Miniatures Servings: 9-10 Time: 90 minutes Difficulty: Medium Print Meringue based dessert topped with whipped cream, jelly and fresh fruits...so delicious..... Yesterday, I had been for lunch at a restaurant and they had Pavlova as one of the many options for dessert. Pavlova is meringue based dessert having delicate but crisp crust and soft marshmellowy center. It is typically served by decorating the top with whipped cream and fresh fruits like Strawberries, Kiwi,