Chocolate Marble cake | Kukskitchen

Marble cake is a fond childhood memory. It is one of the cakes that my mum used to make and we loved her cakes.

I remember one evening my mum had made her chocolate marble cake with butter cream frosting and my brother's friends visited. My brother had (still have) really good friends. I can not remember if it was his birthday, but a few of them stayed the night. We all had a piece of the cake each after dinner. It was getting late and we all retired to bed. Now, the rest of the delicious cake was in a serving dish covered by food net on the dinning table. The next day morning when I came down from my room, all I found was an empty plate on the table. The cake was no where to be found. Mummy was enquiring about the 'lost cake' and the very conscientious, sincere R chettan confesses the truth. At night when everyone was fast asleep he came down not one but many times to our dining room finishing off the cake one piece at a time till none was left. I tell the tale each time I have this cake remembering the taste of my mum's delicious marble cake and butter cream frosting.

Chocolate Mousse | Kukskitchen

Yet another year has gone by and it's Valentine's Day again.

After dinner for dessert  made this smooth soft delicious mousse, which my son says is the best dessert I have ever made for him. He wants it now every single day as dessert. Now, you'll know how long those desires last :P.....

Christmas beetroot cake | Kukskitchen

Cakes are an essential part of any christmas, but always feel guilty after having a generous portion ( actually several generous portions) of the scrumptious cake. For christmas last time I decided to go for a healthier option which would involve my not so veggie loving son to eat ( with delight) a vegetable that he has refused to try before - Beetroot. My dear friend Priya of Cook with priya, who I met through blogging, posted a gorgeous beetroot cake a while ago which I thought was perfect for my needs. So decided, I went for it.

Chocolate and banana cake | Kukskitchen

Last few days pf school year is fun-packed and involves a lot of yummy food. I was very quick in offering to bake for every occasion possible in my little one's school: be it his last day party or garden picnic. I ended up making a chocolate and banana cake for one of them and used the recipe to make muffins for the garden picnic along with black forest berry and whit chocolate muffins. They went down well.

Black forest berries and white chocolate muffins | Kukskitchen

It was a friend at work's birthday and what better gift than a box of yummy muffins. She absolutely loved the soft and moist black forest berries and white chocolate muffins I made for her. And she deserved only the best.

They are more a big-girl's-muffins. If preferred, add frozen Blueberries, Blackberries or mixed berries instead of black forest berries. Buttermilk gives the muffins a lovely light texture. While making them please make sure the berries are frozen when added to the muffin mixture. so they dont go all runny.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls | Quick and easy Christmas gift idea | Kukskitchen

Its Christmas again. Yeah!!!

It is the most wonderful time of the year. I luv everything about it, right from the lent leading up to it, decorating the christmas tree with baubles, decorations and lots and lots of lights, all the gift making and wrapping, the special midnight mass at church and the delicious food I get to make for my family and friends.

Warm & spicy autumn muffins for Baking partners challenge | featuring pumpkin | Kukskitchen

This would be my second one of the baking partners challenge run by Swathi ( Zesty South Indian Kitchen) . I am luving it.




Reshmi of Easy Cook suggested Pumpkin chocolate chips muffin which is adapted from Baking from the Heart, a collaborative cookbook with Michael J Rose

Ultimate chocolate cream cheese cookies | Kukskitchen

This is my first month and first entry on the Baking Partners challenge. Baking partners is a group created and run by Swathi of Zest south indian kitchen. There were three recipes for cookies and I chose ultimate chocolate cream cheese cookies.

Recipe by Tina of pinay cooking corner

Ultimate Chocolate Cream Cheese Cookies from Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

Ingredients:

2 ¼ cups (255g) all purpose flour

¼ cup (32g) unsweetened cocoa powder

2 tsp. (8g) baking soda
½ tsp. (3g) salt
2 sticks (226g) unsalted butter, softened slightly
4 oz (113g) Cream Cheese at room temperature
1 cup (201g) granulated sugar
½ cup (110g) dark brown sugar
2 large eggs
2 Tbsp. (30ml) heavy cream
1 tsp. (5ml) pure vanilla extract
3 oz. (85g) bittersweet chocolate, melted and cooled
8 oz. (225g) of semi-sweet chocolate chips

Black forest cake | Keralan cake | Kukskitchen

A piece of the soft black forest cake is one that no one can resist. In the city where I was born and brought up in, there was a bakery/ bakers called M. They made the softest black forest cakes ever and their cake for christmas or birthday was such a pleasure to have, one had to pre-order as such was it's popularity. Not sure if the bakers still exist or if they make their world-famous-in-the capital city-cakes any more.


Presented is my take on the classic which gives best results each time.


The base for my black forest cake is 'devil's food cake'. Now, where I got this recipe! Got it from a book I borrowed from my first supervising consultant Dr JF at my first job. It was a small cooking booklet of 'Vanitha', a fortnightly malayalam magazine in India. :) It tasted like the black forest cake I tasted from M. Made a few changes and added a frosting and here is the result.

Chocolate pudding featuring condensed milk and cream | Kukskitchen

Who doesn't know 'Magic oven' and its pretty and confident host Lekshmi Nair. I am a huge fan. Haven't managed to acquire her cookbooks yet, but managed to photocopy one from one of my friends who owned it. This recipe was telecasted in her tv show and my lovely sis-in-law R got the recipe for me.