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The thought of butter bun evokes nostalgia in me… Butter buns are a popular pastry in South India. These are sweet buns with butter-sugar frosting and are usually deep-fried. These buns are incredibly delicious and will just melt in our mouth. In Kerala, butter buns are popular in Trivandrum, my hometown. During my school and …
Baklava, a popular Middle Eastern & Mediterranean pastry dessert… It’s basically layered phyllo dough smeared with butter, topped with chopped nuts & soaked in sugar syrup. With store-bought phyllo dough, making baklava is super easy. It’s a heavenly decadent flaky & crispy dessert. I made the baklava in an 8-inch square pan, this yielded 12 …
Crispy and delicious Danish: My new obsession… Lately, I’ve been obsessed with danish pastry and have been trying danish with different flavors and stuffings in it. One of my favorite stuffings is apple and maple syrup, of course sprinkled with lots of ground cinnamon. I’d been wanting to make danish for so long and thought …
Dilkush in Hindi means: “heart is happy” (Dil=heart and Kush=happy), after tasting this homemade dilkush my heart was filled with happiness… A nostalgic pastry! I have had this pastry while growing up in Kerala, it’s sold at most bakeries in my hometown. It’s also available in some bakeries in Tamil Nadu. I didn’t grow up …
Melts into your mouth… Whenever I come across cream puffs I can’t resist it. It’s light, creamy, delicious and simply delicious. Lately, I’d been craving for cream puffs, I tried to overcome it but in vain. So I decided to make homemade cream puffs and succumb to my craving. I am so glad that …