And the lockdown continues. The first few weeks I did not feel any different and I was enjoying having the full family at home. Since I worked from home, I did not miss going outside. In fact, I felt I was becoming more productive because I didn’t have to step out for bringing my daughter […]
Cakes and Cookies
Chocolate Cookies with Pink Frosting (Gluten free, Paleo, AIP)
February being the month of our wedding anniversary (and Valentine’s Day of course), it always makes me want to bake something special and I try to create a new dessert every year. Since the last three years, these desserts have been Paleo and / AIP. This year I wanted to bake cookies for some reason. […]
Chocolate Cup Cakes with fruity frosting (Paleo, AIP, Vegan)
What gave me this idea of making these colorful cup cakes? I mean my kids are not so young anymore (I know… very sad!) and they are not old enough for me to be having grand kids either 🙂 Well, today is Holi , which is the festival of colors and in India, it is […]
Peach and Plum Upside down Cake (Paleo, AIP)
OK, So if you read my last post, you already know about this cake. And if you did not read my last post where I posted the Flourless Chocolate Cake recipe, then I suggest you do it now 🙂 Because I am going to keep this post really short! This turned out to be […]
Flourless Chocolate Cake (Gluten free, Refined sugar free)
OK So August is always a very busy month – summer vacations, grad parties, get togethers, pool parties etc etc and in our household there is more! Three out of four people in our house have their birthdays in August ! He He…yes, I made sure both my kids were born on my birth month […]
Healthy Brownies (Paleo, Refined Sugar free, Gluten free)
Here is one more healthy brownie recipe for you! Please, Please try making this and don’t tell your kids that these are healthy! Just let them taste it and tell you first how delicious these are! And then perhaps you can let them know that these are so healthy filled with all the good stuff! […]
Valentine’s Day Special Cake || Strawberry Banana Cake (Paleo, AIP)
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, […]
Christmas Cake || Chocolate and Dried Fruit Cake (Paleo, AIP, Vegan)
So I had seen this recipe for Chocolate Fruit Cake by Southern-in-law, which looked very enticing. It was a refined sugar free and gluten free recipe. Last year I had baked an Indian Style Christmas Cake which is brown in color not due to chocolate but due to caramelization of sugar. In India it is commonly […]
Chocolate Pumpkin Brownies || Coconut flour Brownies (Paleo)
I wonder who discovered brownies and whether it was an accidental discovery? Was it a cake batter not rising adequately or a cookie batter becoming a bit runny? Well, we will never know for sure. But when I googled this question, it seems that in 1906, a cookbook author, Fanny Farmer adapted her chocolate […]
Pumpkin Banana Bread (Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Paleo)
Finally we can say that fall has arrived in New England. This year the weather has been highly unusual with us seeing really high temperatures even in September. I bet that confused the trees and they forgot that their leaves needed to change color 🙂 I had been quite disappointed until now since the lovely […]
Mango Cashew Cake (Mango Cashew Pie)
In the raw cakes world, this would be called a vegan cheese cake. But I found that my followers were a little confused when I posted my first vegan cheese cake made with berries and cashews. So I will just call it ‘cashew cake’. Although it has cashews, coconut and dates too. And maple syrup. […]
Berry ‘Cheese Cake’ (Gluten free, Paleo, Vegan)
I have to confess…until a few months ago I did not know that there were an increasing number of folks in the world who were following a totally ‘raw foods’ diet! My first reaction was – wow, that’s great – so healthy and ‘no need to cook’! I looked over a lot of raw food […]