Autumn is my new year. Autumn wakes me up from a lazy stupor that I run into at the end of the Rains. Autumn fills me with zest and anticipation. When is it ‘your’ new year? It seemed appropriate that I should start the first post of this year with a sweet one. So read more…
Vegan mocha-walnut brownies
I came to know about brownies fairly recently, about 10-12 years back. Before that the only brownies I knew were the ones that praned around with pixies in Enid Blyton. The recipe I am sharing today is not for people with allergies to gluten and nuts, although vegan. You can adapt the recipe to make whichever read more…
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Allergy friendly cocoa orange cup cakes
Adding coarsely ground nuts such as hazelnuts, cashews or almonds gives a lighter texture and lift to vegan bakes, but since Jr.H cannot consume nuts I had a tough time getting that texture in her cakes. This time I tried adding coarsely ground, dry sunflower seeds and it gave both the texture as well the read more…
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Vegan Cinnamon Cognac Truffles
Encouraged by the huge success of the Mandelspritzegeback I tried a second recipe, Cinnamon Cognac Truffles from Thorsten’s blog. My son felt I should not have rolled the truffles in cocoa powder but just dipped them in chocolate, cooled and piped strings of white chocolate around them. I think I will do that the next read more…
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