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16May 28, 2013
Chocolate cake with mousse filling and covered with ganache – best ever extravagant chocolate cake

This was an anniversary cum birthday cake. It had to be special. For the chocolate aficionado, it can not be better gift than anything else. Though the cake was baked in the oven but the first imaginary seed germinated weeks before in my mind, slowly the vision becomes more clearer. I knew how and what kind of cake I wanted to bake. All things are complex before they are simplified into few easy and simple steps. Flavors were sorted out….
7May 3, 2013
Saffron mango kulfi – a royal summer treat and uncondtional mango mania !

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. ~Ernestine Ulmer The magic word here is “Mango” . Yellow, ripe, plump , juicy, musky and fruity with a leathery vibrant yellow skin, sometimes comes with those pretty pink spots, speaks about its ripeness, hint of sweet flavor oozing out of the bud tells you its sweetness and even before you think about eating it, just like that , your head buzzed with thousand of ideas to try with mangoes. Thats the mango…
3March 25, 2013
Cardamom scented fig and chocolate fudge / anjeer halwa or barfi for Holi

Fig fudge or fig and chocolate fudge or anjeer (fig) halwa or anjeer barfi, it goes by many name but it has only one language that speaks deliciousness in every bite ! Holi like other festivals of India always holds a special place in our heart, and being very adventurous by nature I never shied away from playing with colors. In those days in my prime years, festivals like holi used to be celebrated with great fervor, a three-day affair, not like weekend celebration of today’s…
5February 14, 2013
Chocolate honey truffles for Valentine’s Day

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY ! VALENTINES DAY SPECIAL RECIPES DAY 4 DESSERT I have come across a very beautiful piece written by Bob Marley on “Love & Relationships ” and it truly echoes my emotions and understanding about it. It beautifully summarizes everything about “true love” and it is bit long, so I restrain myself from adding anything extra to it, which is not said before. Here it is – ” Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone…
7November 12, 2012
Almond crust tart filled with Indian carrot pudding – a Diwali special

Saffronstreaks wishes Happy & Prosperous Diwali to all, may you have safe, glowing and beautiful year ahead ! We @ saffronstreaks celebrating Diwali with everyone’s beloved “gajar ka halwa” and if it doesnt excites you enough, then wait, we are going to serve it differently. How ? Read it further. Gone are the days when Diwali used to be a week long affair, rather than a weekend thing which seems much like a chore to me rather than a celebration. Galore of homemade…
20October 5, 2012
Cinnamon spiced coffee mousse – pure bliss !

TGI Friday and its dessert time now ! It may sound cliché but actually I was searching = thinking = planning to have a good mousse for a long time. The first and the last time I had something like mousse was this strawberry mousse but when it comes to fruit mousse, you ( Or I ) don’t bother about the texture really ! The mind accepts everything which is fruity in flavour and with some whipped cream you can literally gather all the accolades. But with…
7June 20, 2012
Mango flan with coconut cream

Today’s post is going to be very short, simple but sweet. The name says it all, creme caramel with sweetness of luxuriant mango pulp and flavoured with goodness of coconut cream, in one word, this is simply delicious dessert. Not that I had nothing to say about mango flan but I had rather very short time in hand, we will be travelling to India in next few hours, and hence my excitement ! I am expert in multi-tasking, but never mingle packing and blogging…
13April 23, 2012
Strawberry panna cotta and a kahani – almost classic

Updated with a note on gelatin in recipe section Morning friends, hope you had a lovely weekend. Morning is dull today, in fact weather here at N.Carolina is pretty much un predictable, but after the rains it looks so green and vibrant, air is cool and breezy. It rained yesterday, incessantly the whole day long but we enjoyed it, we watched three movies back to back, gorged on homemade pizzas and relish on some tastiest dessert – strawberry Panna cotta which turns out…
13February 13, 2012
Strawberry mousse

Strumming my pain with his fingers Singing my life with his words Killing me softly with his song Killing me softly with his song Telling my whole life with his words Killing me softly with his song “ …open your heart and “ lost in love” and made this for “the one that you love“, and watch him as he gone “crazy for you“, one more sip and ”can’t help falling in love“, its light and flirty, pretty in pink , deep in…
12February 10, 2012
Sticky chocolate and date pudding

Beginning today , till Valentine’s Day, we bring you all the sweet and decadent desserts for our Valentine’s Special series, so if you have not subscribed to our feeds, do it now, don’t miss a post. Puddings are that class of desserts without which no celebration is complete, if a simple steamed pudding has that rustic flavour, then baked puddings has its own class, simple to make and great to taste and we believe that’s why they are so popular. On…
17January 13, 2012
Chilli spiced chocolate cherry tartlets

Once again I am here with another chocolate dessert, before you labeled me as a chocoholic, let me tell you, am not the one…, I can assure you that, but who can resist a chocolate. The sweet and bitter chocolate, yes that is my flavor, as soon as it melts in your mouth, you begin to feel happy … almost instantly. The rich flavonoids and anitoxidants work their way up to your mind and heart, and bring smile on your…
35November 18, 2011
chocolate hazelnut pots de creme

“Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” Forrest Gump. And you know how true it is. You opened that magic box and saw colorful arrays of candies, truffles, bars and lozenges with golden and shiny wrappers around them staring at you, in all flavors which slowly broadens a smile on your face, you thought you found a treasure box and very securely tucked it under your pillow, and the very next day the…
12November 9, 2011
mini pumpkin pie tart for thanksgiving

I never thought that pumpkin can be used in so many ways to make different kind of desserts and savouries, but there is always a first time, a new beginning and after few trial and error steps, it slowly sink in you that you are in love with this new-found dish. When you stays in so many new places, it is a human nature to get influenced by the local customs and traditions, and you wish to be part of…
11October 18, 2011
blueberry pie in autumn

I know, I know, this is not the season for having blueberry pies, but summer seems to still linger somewhere in the air, or in my mind !!!. Autumn is in full swing, everywhere leafs are turning into yellow, orange and red, but in the midst of that, a warm and humid day sneaks occasionally into the crisp and cool autumn mornings. Apple cider, cranberries and pumpkin patches are announcing their arrival everywhere, with Halloween around the corner, but few…
16August 23, 2011
easy breezy fudge brownies with sliced almonds on top

Chocolate is one of life’s luxuries and one of the few that we can all afford. Nothing beats the pleasure of hot chocolate on a cold morning or on one of those gloomy days and is equally hard to resist the luxuriant and richness of sumptuous chocolate cakes and gateaux…with layers of oomph…that lures the temptation further…and no baking is complete without the chocolates. For chocoholics like me, it marks the beginning and end of …everything. From simple milk chocolate to white chocolate, everyone has their fantasy weaved around this single…
29August 2, 2011
chocolate cupcakes and two years of blogging

We feel extremely happy to announce that Saffronstreaks is celebrating two golden years of food and travel blogging, come and join the cupcake party !! Yes, my first ever cupcake ! just fresh from the oven !! “They are sweet, they are pretty, they are cute and adorable. They come in all the vibrant colors one can think of, in all the flavors, with personalized messages, they spread cheer and joy to the gloomiest of the soul and can bring…
16July 26, 2011
plum cake ‘tatin’ or upside down cake with red plums

“A peach is a peach and plum is a plum but a kiss ain’t no kiss, until….” you know what next, so goes the plums and peaches, hand in hand together in the beaches, while you surf your way down the curly waves, a little bit of creme fraiche is what they needed on their sun-baked skin and when the white cottony clouds drum rolled through the azure blue sky announcing the summers, the lusty boughs of old plum-tree in the backyard laden with ripe…
8July 6, 2011
super easy lemon blueberry loaf cake and a devoted page on baking

I know baking is hot, baking is divine but for me the world of baking starts and ends with a simple vanilla sponge cake. Sounds strange enough isn’t it ? Such creatures still exist on Earth and I am one of them. Though I have tasted many gourmet baked desserts but baking those goodies that too in my kitchen, never materialise. Never, until that day… And these food bloggers brings sheer torture to the people like me with their heavenly gorgeous…