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Onion Mustard Monkey Bread | Twisting Traditions

Onion Mustard Monkey Bread | Twisting Traditions by Sweatha Pai

Monkey bread , a sweet sticky yeasted pull out bread or breakfast pastry is quite popular. I too have tried my hand at this and you can get an orange cardamom version here. Originally from America, no one is quite sure about how it got its name.But as long as the bread is perfect you can add your own version to the existing stories.…

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Orange Blossom Brioche Rolls | Baking Partners March 2015

Orange Blossom Brioche Rolls | Baking Partners March 2015 by Sweatha Pai

Brioche is a bread which always makes me feel that I am doing something different. or rather a different cuisine. Ofcourse its French. Its just that I get the French feeling more than the bread baking feeling. Also this time around it was Moroccanish as we all baked a Orange scented brioche for Baking Partners chosen by Swathi. The…

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Nutty Cheese Crackers | Easy N Tasty

Nutty Cheese Crackers | Easy N Tasty by Sweatha Pai

Sometimes routine life gets soooo boring and you feel like you want to do something different. Especially bakewise.. Past few days I have baked several sweet and savoury breads that I wanted to bake something else that I had not done for a long time. Then I found and adapted the yummy easy to put together crackers which had cheese and…

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Cheesy Salad on Weck Rolls | We Knead to Bake #26

Cheesy Salad on Weck Rolls | We Knead to Bake #26 by Sweatha Pai

Kummelweck or Kimmelweck Rolls are hard and crusty bread rolls topped with caraway seeds and coarse sea salt for the punch. These are similar to kaiser rolls with a caraway seed topping instead of the poppy seeds. Hot favourite in Buffalo and Western NewYork, they are a simple to make and make super burger buns. This is what I found…

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Shake it Baby | 'Tis Summer

Shake it Baby | 'Tis Summer by Sweatha Pai

When my daughter got a project on her favourite food, she had one answer nutella.. She was supposed to write her favourite food recipe with pics of ingredients and obviously nutella being all popular and all over the place it really helped me too..I just had to find a supermarket sales brochure/ supplement that came with the…

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Jamaican Coco Bread | Perfect for all occassions

Jamaican Coco Bread | Perfect for all occassions by Sweatha Pai

I love experimenting and am proud to twist and turn the recipes and get something edible and tasty. But somehow when I came across the Jamaican coco bread here I wondered how come the thought of using coconut milk in a bread recipe never crossed my mind?. Anyways the bread was quick and easy and as always increased my baker's…

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Coconut Mocha Cupcakes | Coffee+ Chocolate+ Coconut

Coconut Mocha Cupcakes | Coffee+ Chocolate+ Coconut by Sweatha Pai

The chocolate coffee combination is very good. But I never thought that coconut when tried with this combo taskes the taste a bit higher. I have tried coconut in several bakes - but as an addition to the dry mix in cookies or rolling in coconut in the end like that. But never before I have used coconut milk while making a cupcake…

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Whole Wheat Sweet Potato Bread | Fall Special

Whole Wheat Sweet Potato Bread | Fall Special by Sweatha Pai

I was not familiar with fall or autumn.It was not considered as a season here. Atleast not where I grew up in South India. We were taught there are 4 seasons -Summer, Monsoon, Spring and winter. Actually even when I read books that mentioned autumn I confused it with winter. For me the trees shedding leaves meant onset of winter. When…

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Sheermal- Persian Saffron Flatbread | We Knead to Bake #22

Sheermal- Persian Saffron Flatbread | We Knead to Bake #22 by Sweatha Pai

I had heard the word sheermal but was under the impression that it was something that existed only in Kashmir. Aunty Google helped me know that it exists even now as a street food in India especially in Muslim neighbourhoods and is an integral though rare part of Lucknowi especially Awadhi,Kashmiri or Hyderabadi cuisines. Its origins…

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Low Fat Banana Bread | Healthy and Tasty

Low Fat Banana Bread | Healthy and Tasty by Sweatha Pai

While posting the Banana Bundt cake, I was wistfully wondering whether I can make it again and that too quickly. But ofcourse patience which is never my virtue, wanted something quick. Something that we can easily put together and pop off in the oven to finish the work to perfection. And lo, out came another bookmark -Low Fat Banana…

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