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Ingredients
- Eggs: 6 (weigh the eggs)
- Flour: same weight as eggs
- Sugar: same weight as eggs
- Butter: same weight as eggs
- Mixed fruits: double the weight as eggs*
- Baking powder: 1 tsp
- Nutmeg powder: 1 tsp
- Vanilla essence: 1 tsp
- Caramelised sugar: ½ cup
- Salt: ¼ tsp
Fruit cake
The Christmas fruit cake recipe, created by my mother Mrs Rachel Chacko, is a family staple for the festive season. It…
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Ingredients
- Flour: 1.5 cups
- Salt: ½ tsp
- Baking powder: 2 tsp
- Butter (at room temperature): 100 gm
- White sugar: 1 cup
- Eggs (at room temperature): 2
- Vanilla extract/essence: 1 tsp
- Milk (at room temperature): ¾ cup
- Nutella (at room temperature): ½ cup
Nutella vanilla cake
A simple homemade pound cake with a light drizzle of Nutella. It’s been a hit in our family and with friends…
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Ingredients
- Breadcrumbs: ¾ cup (I usually use rusk crushed with a rolling pin. Avoid rusks that are elaichi (cardamom) flavoured. Use unflavoured rusk.)
- Sugar: ¾ cup
- Milk: 1 ½ cups
- Eggs (beaten): 2
- Fresh coconut (grated): I cup
- Tinned pineapple (diced): 150-200 gm (I usually use about 1 ½ cups or a little more)
- Baking powder: 1 tsp
- Butter (unsalted): 50 gm (melted to be able to mix better)
- Pinch of salt
- Rum: 2-3 tbsp
Coconut Pineapple Pudding
This is one of those super easy desserts that takes 10 minutes to prep and then 30 minutes to bake. But…
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Ingredients
- Wholewheat atta (flour): 160 gm
- Oats: 30 gm
- Baking soda: ½ tsp
- Salt: ¾ tsp
- Cinnamon powder: a pinch
- Butter: 130 gm
- Brown sugar: 135 gm
- Egg: 1
- Vanilla essence: ¾ tsp
- Lemon: ⅛ tsp
- Dark choco-chips: 227 gm
- A little sea salt for sprinkling
Chocolate Chip Cookies
This is the recipe that has propped our home during the lockdown… and it’s been a weekly ritual to make this…