Kitchen For Real

Salt cookies aka salt biscuits are quite popular cookies available in most of the bakeries in India.The cookies are mouth melting and perfect with a cup of tea or coffee. I used to get these cookies from local Indian bakery but wanted to try since long.I couldn't get a proper recipe for this particular cookie.Finally I saw a YouTube video and the measurements were not clear.Then I tried my own measurements with the ingredients mentioned.After couple of trials I got a perfect mouth melting cookie.Try these yummy cookies and enjoy the holidays.                                                                                                                                                                                           Bakery Style Salt Cookies                                                                            Basic Information    Preparation time 15 minutes    Chilling time 10-12 minutes    Bak ing time 15-18 minu

Cashews and pistachios cookies are yet another mouth melting cookies flavored with cardamom powder.I have bookmarked the recipe from  here  but altered slightly and made it according to my family's taste. The cookies came out so good with the crunchiness of nuts and the cardamom flavor.The nuts need to be chopped very finely and added to the dough.The dough can be rolled out and cut with cookie cutter.But I sliced the chilled dough and baked.Either way it turned out good.My kids enjoyed it to the core.Off to the recipe.................                                                                                                                                                                   Kaju Pista cookies/Cashews and Pistachios Cookies                                                                            Basic Information    Preparation time 15 minutes    Chilling time 30 minutes    Bak ing time 15-18 minutes    Ma

Honey cake is a popular cake available in most of the bakeries in South India.This cake is my childhood favorite and mom used to get in from the local bakery.The jam coated on the top and the desiccated coconut makes the cake even more tastier.In this cake no honey is used but a simple syrup is used to moisten the cake hence the name honey cake. Coming to the recipe,for the base I made a simple  eggless vanilla cake  with few variations.Also used some freshly squeezed orange juice as the cake available in shops are orange in color.Off to the recipe......                                                                                                                                                                         Eggless Honey Cake/Bakery Style Honey Cake                                                                            Basic Information    Preparation time 15-20 minutes    Bak ing time 30-35 minutes    Makes  10-12 pie

Butterflake rolls are soft rolls where butter is applied in between the layers and bake it in a muffin tray.These rolls are so soft and buttery with a rich taste. The shaping of the rolls can be done in 2 ways either you can make strips out of the dough or make slits on top of the rolled dough.I tried the later version and it came out so good with a cute shape.I made these rolls with plain butter but flavored butter such as garlic,coriander or any other flavor can also be made.Off to the recipe.....................                                                                                                                                                                               Butterflake Rolls                                                                            Basic Information    Recipe Source K arenskitchenstories    Preparation time 20-25 minutes    Proofing time 2 hours     Cooking time 25-30 minutes    Makes 6-7           Ingredients    

For this week Bake-A-Thon,I am sharing a simple,eggless snack cake with nuts and tutty frutty.I have already shared a version of  tutty frutty cake .But this version I tried from  Pavani's blog ,which I have bookmarked last year.I made this cake couple of times after she shared in it the blog but I never get a chance to click the pictures.Finally I made the cake yesterday and clicked it for the blog. In the original recipe oil is used but here I used both oil and butter,also used the brown sugar.This cake is a perfect for kids snack box or evening snack with a cup of tea or coffee.This cake doesn't need any special preparation and its so easy to make.Off to the recipe...........                                                                                                                                                                         Eggless Fruit and Nut Snack Cake                                                                

Oven roasted cashews is a simple yet easy to make snack,perfect for a party snack or starter.The oven roasted cashews uses only couple of teaspoon of oil and its guilt free.Since it has lot of saturated fat consume it moderately. Here I have used the black pepper powder and salt to spice it up.But you can use red chilly powder and other spices and flavoring agents for variations.Make this roasted cashews with your choice of spices for the Christmas party and enjoy.                                                                                                                                                                Roasted Cashews/Oven Roasted Cashews/Masala Cashews                                                                            Basic Information    Preparation time 2 minutes    Bak ing time 10 minutes    Makes 1.5 cups           Ingredients     Ingredient Quantity Whole cashews/mundiri 1.5 cups Black pepper powder/milagu podi 1-1.5 tsp Oil 2