Mixed berry Pie. Make this easy to make, delicious mixed berry pie that can be made with either fresh or frozen berries. Customize the pie by swapping blackberries for some of the strawberries/blueberries or make this mixed berry pie with whatever berries you have on hand.
I love pies. I don’t make or eat them as often as I would like to, but I do love them. I love their buttery crust and fruit rich filling. I feel they are a great way to put to use fresh fruit of the season. Berries and stone fruits in summer, pumpkin and apples during fall. A slice of pie and some whipped cream/ice cream on the side. Perfection!
In my city, its not easy finding fresh berries, although strawberries is one thing that have become fairly easy to find. These days strawberries are bountiful so I decided to make a fresh strawberry pie. I had been eyeing this recipe on allrecipes.com and thought I had enough strawberries for the pie, but turned out I didn’t. So instead of shoving the plans, I decided to make a mixed berry pie, inspired from this recipe.
My favorite red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting recipe. These red velvet cupcakes are light, have the trademark red color with a hint of chocolate flavor and a little tang from the buttermilk. They are perfectly moist with the most delicious cream cheese frosting
When I was working on my home based baking venture The Pink CakeBox, these red velvet cupcakes were the most requested cupcake flavor and I always got a great feedback from whoever received them. Even after I stopped baking for orders, there are a few customers who still come and request these red velvet cupcakes.
I have made this recipe at least a 100 times, if not more and it has never failed me. I do a mix of oil and butter in the batter. The oil makes these red velvet cupcakes moist, and the butter gives that great butter flavor that just oil cakes lack.
The highlight of these cupcakes is of course the cream cheese frosting, which I have perfected over the years. Its not overtly sweet, perfect amount of tang from the cream cheese and frosts well too. The trick to not getting a runny frosting is to make sure you don’t beat the cream cheese too much. That is why I always beat the butter separately to make it light and fluffy first, before adding the slightly beaten cream cheese and then once the cream cheese is added only beat for another minute or so.
I know I have posted a recipe for red velvet cupcakes before but for the past couple of years I have been using this recipe, so thought will post the recipe here. Since, its Valentine’s Day on the 14th, I thought these would be perfect for you to make for your loved ones or just for yourself, because why not!
I also did a video for the cupcakes. My friend helped me shoot it and I then edited it. I am planning to do more videos for the blog. Hopefully, between client shoots, I do get time to work on the videos I have planned. Let me know what you think of this one.
If you do make these cupcakes, please make sure you tag me on instagram, facebook or leave a comment here. While the recipe yields 12 cupcakes, it easily doubles to make 24.
Healthy granola recipe. The best base granola recipe to play around with and super easy to make. Will become your favorite granola recipe.
I have always been a breakfast person. Like I can eat breakfast for lunch, dinner and snack kind of a person.
While I love a breakfast with buttermilk biscuits, scrambled eggs, aloo parantha even, and now have the luxury on most days to have a leisurely breakfast, but when I am on the run, granola and milk/yogurt has always been my go to option.
When I was in the US, granola was a favorite breakfast of mine. I always used store bought granola since I thought it was more convenient than making your own. I was absolutely wrong. Believe me when I say making this granola is the easiest thing you could do. Everything mixes together in one bowl. You can customize the granola to your liking by adding or subtracting whatever mix-ins you want (or dont want). And it is so much better (and cheaper too) than any store bought granola you have ever had.
