Perfect Moist and Fluffy Vanilla Funfetti Cupcakes with White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

My kids came with little precious gifts for the mother's day (will post the picture later) and hope the same for you all, Wishing you a very Happy Mother's Day :-). Today I am here with a special recipe on this special Day, its Vanilla Funfetti Cupcakes with White chocolate buttercream frosting (added red food color). I have reduced as much sugar I can though they are moist and perfect. These cupcakes are made with High-Ratio Mixing Method ie Two Step or Quick-Mix, it is also called the Two Stage Mixing Method in this way it has perfect tender cupcakes and I am practicing this recipe

Easy Pinwheel Cookies | Merry Christmas

Today’s pinwheel cookie post is yet another easy recipe for this holiday with detailed description, so you can try it by looking in to the stepwise pictorial. Here I have used vanilla and chocolate flavors and the choice is yours, you can skip chocolate and add any food color for attractive pinwheel cookies. I have mentioned one egg yolk for bonding purpose but you can skip it and add milk if necessary. I have made two times in the past 1 week for sharing Christmas treats, so I made this same recipe in bulk (as shown below)

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies | Christmas Holiday Cookies

There are lots of Christmas events happening around us. This year I am baking more cookies for several reasons, one main reason is homemade cookie exchange among Teachers happening at my daughter class this week☺. So among few cookies that I have baked, the crinkle cookies is one among it. These cookies are so chocolaty and unlike other baking these has to be out from the oven when the center looks little raw and soft. That's how it will become soft and not dried so much when it cooled completely.

Christmas Shortbread Bites | Eggless Funfetti Shortbread Tidbits | Easy Cookies Recipe

Here comes an easy to make Shortbread bites/cookies recipe that can make around 80 cookies as shown here in 30 minutes of time. The Shortbread bites are an easy peasy snack for school going kids and good holiday recipe as well to treat the guests. These cookies are not even a mess to roll and cut shapes as desired, just score the whole dough in to small bites over the baking tray that’s it. Also the ingredients are simple and no need to add any leavening agent, just butter and flour makes wonder

Traditional Pumpkin Pie with homemade pie crust | All from scratch recipe

Its holiday season here, In grocery stores you can find ready to bake pie plates, pumpkin spices, fruit mixes, instant cake mixes, pumpkin puree and lot and lot of baking stuffs in a separate row for this holiday season. For holidays when kids stay at home they always needs something special. On Thanksgiving break their requests was so many, Pumpkin Pie, Turkey, so and so. Kids wish list is always vast they likes to carve Pumpkin, Light/decor the house, needs christmas tree, wants snow so that they can build snowman, the list continues :-). Its hard to fulfill thier needs within a short span of time. I don't have courage

Snowball Cookies | Mexican Wedding Cookies Recipe

I am wishing you all my dear readers, friends and family members a very happy Christmas. Hope you are having wonderful time with family and friends. Wish Santa brings you gifts/good message tonight, hope for the best, Merry Christmas:-) . Coming to today’s Christmas special recipe

Easy Christmas Plum Cake | Alcohol Free & No Soak Fruit Cake | Christmas Special

If you didn’t soak fruits for the plum/fruit cake, doesn’t worry here is an easy no soak and alcohol free plum cake recipe to bake and enjoy this Christmas. This is the picture I clicked last year also this is the only recipe I am following since long time. I did pack few times to my mom’s and MIL’s place so here is one picture below to show it. The cakes went as it is as shown in the wrap :-). Chop the fruits and make

German Chocolate Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting | Frozen Themed Cupcakes

Here is the recipe for the chocolate cupcakes i made for my daughter's birthday in last October. It was frozen theme party and i planned a week before the party to make halve of the cupcakes so chocolaty and remaining with vanilla flavor also decided to decorate those with blue buttercream frosting and snow flakes on top (will post the detail soon). The snowflakes are made of MM fondant. I will make another

Eggless Honeycomb Buns | Beehive Bread | Khaliat al Nahal Recipe from Scratch

Khaliat al Nahal (known by many as Khaliat Nahal) simply means Bee's Hive. The name is due to the bread's resemblance to a honeycomb and for the sweet honey-flavored glaze it use after the bread is out from oven. Also the traditional Honeycomb buns/Beehive Bread  usually filled with cheese and

Spinach and Vegetable Quiches in Muffin Pan | Crustless Quiche | Savory Muffins

Quiche (/ˈkiːʃ/ keesh) is a savory, open-faced pastry crust with a filling of savory custard with cheese, meat, seafood, and/or vegetables. It is part of French cuisine but popular worldwide and particularly as party food. I made it first time for my daughter's birthday party in last October and after that i made several times for H's thanksgiving potluck at office, so n so. When Swathi asked to try this for October month baking partners challenge, i couldn't post it on time. Since quiche has been turned in to my daughters favorite, i may come with crust based quiche in future. Also I don't want the quiche too eggy

Julekake | Julekaga | Norwegian Cardamom Scented Christmas Bread

I have made few bakes during holiday time and will post those in upcoming days. Julekake (or Julekaka/ Julekaga) is a rich holiday bread flavored with cardamom which is traditionally served at Christmas in many Scandinavian countries. It is particularly popular in Norway and Denmark. Incidentally, Julekake means “Yule Bread” in Norwegian.  This bread is more cake-like in texture and sometimes it is dusted with

Christmas Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing Recipe

As Christmas is fast approaching here are the basic sugar cookies (recipe follows) that I made few days back for my younger one’s class Christmas party also I have provided detail description on how I decorated

Gibassier | Traditional French Bread

The Gibassier(pronounced zee-bah-see-ay) from the Provence region is a buttery textured French breakfast bread that is flavoured with candied orange peel, orange blossom water and aniseed, and topped with a sprinkling of plain or vanilla sugar. The Gibassier is also the name for large cookie from Lourmarin in particular that’s about a foot long, is made with olive oil and oval shaped like a leaf. It is shaped somewhat the way one shapes a fougasse and delightfully soft and delicious. Gibassier can be shaped and made as one big round loaf, or larger or smaller single serve breads. Whatever size they come in, they are slashed/ snipped decoratively before they’re baked and this makes them even more irresistible. Gibassier is one of the

Bienenstich Kuchen | German Bee Sting Cake

Merry Christmas to all my dear Friends, Readers and Bloggers. Lets celebrate the holidays with Bienenstich Kuchen, also known as the German Bee Sting Cake. Bienenstich is not really a bread but a traditional German sweet yeasted cake that has a baked on topping of crunchy almond toffee-like layer and filled with a vanilla pastry cream. Bienenstich is traditionally eaten as dessert and also served with tea or coffee and probably got its name from the honey flavoured topping. Thanks Aparna Balasubramanian for adding me in this wonderful group (We Knead to Bake), I was longing

Yule Log Cake | Bûche de Noël (French) | Traditional Christmas Special Cake Recipe

The traditional Yule Log Cake/bûche is made from Sponge cake, usually baked in a Large Swiss roll pan, frosted and rolled to form a cylinder. Again frosted on the outside, Bûches are often served with a portion of one end of the cake cut off and set on top of the cake or protruding from its side to resemble a chopped off branch, and bark-like texture is often produced in the buttercream frosting for further realism. This is often done by dragging a fork through the frosting/icing. The most common combination is a basic yellow sponge cake, frosted and filled with chocolate buttercream. Today's recipe is very similar to traditional yule log except mushroom

Eggless American Snowman Cookies

As Christmas is around the corner you can see few bakes/Christmas recipes here in future posts. Coming to today’s recipe its chemical free (baking powder or soda) and Egg free Snowman butter cookies. Thanks Priya sis and Priya Ranjit for this wonderful challenge for Home Bakers Group. During last long weekend I made it and totally enjoyed decorating this cute cookies. Also personally

Crescent Sugar Cookies | Eggless Kourabiethes (Greece) | Christmas Special Moon Shortbread

This melt in mouth sugar cookies/powder sugar coated shortbread from Greece are made for special occasions and festive Christmas season. I made it twice before posting here. First time I reduced the recipe to halve and second time i reduced the butter where original recipe calls for...After reducing the butter

Misal Pav with Homemade Pav Buns | Popular Street Food All From Scratch

The south Indian team are challenged with Misal Pav and North Indian team with Methu Vada for this month Divya's SNC. Thanks Meena  for giving the Misal pav recipe in detail. Misal pav is a Maharastrian street food popular countrywide which is very healthy n nutritiuos. Pav is a Maharastrian word which means small loaf bun and Misal means spicy curry made with any dried beans/Peas and masala. So Misal pav is the combo of Pav bun, Misal/Gravy/Curry garnished with Mixture/Savory and chopped onions/coriander leaves. You can use store bought Buns and fried Savory snack too, but I did everything at home the Pav buns/Mixture/Farsan/Curry etc. After all this work I really satisfied with the taste and my lil daughter enjoyed it much. She nowadays started saying "Yummy" when she really likes it and this recipe is one among it where I got appreciation from her :-).  I got 2 Sunshine awards from my blogger friends thanks Asiya n Yasodha for sharing those awards. Now we will move on to the challenged recipe :-).