Rum and Raisin Cake

Boozy desserts are delicious! Agree? Please say yes 🙂

There are so many lovely alcohol+dessert flavour combinations out there – whiskey+chocolate, stout+chocolate, lemon+tequila and so on. But my earliest memory of this beautiful fusion of flavours is Rum+Raisin! I remember seeing rum and raisin chocolates and ice creams on a few dessert menus, when we used to go fancy restaurants to celebrate special occasions. Of course, since I was a kid, I was never allowed to try these 🙂 But once I was old enough, the first thing I did try was the ice cream. And what a flavour bomb! The sweetness of both the raisins and the rum, the rum warmth and the little boozy kick at the end. YUM!

While I am yet to try making the ice cream, I did try and translate those flavours into cake 🙂

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Matar Mushroom (Peas and Mushrooms)

There are some people I know, who don’t like peas. Call them characterless. Whyyy guys, whyyyy???

I find peas amazing in every form! My sister and I used to eat them raw, fresh from the pods when we were kids. There is a common Bihari snack which is roasted flattened rice with pan fried masala peas (ghugni) on the side. It is key to one of my favourite breakfasts – poha. Peas also add this lovely sweetness and texture to many Indian main courses – with paneer, potatoes, minced meat and so on. This recipe is all about peas and mushrooms!

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Chocochip Pound Cake

One of my first cooking loves was baking. I grew up baking with my grandmothers and aunts, then moved on to baking on my own (with some supervision) using cookbooks for kids and then using boxed mixes (shudder!). There was a time in the middle, for about 10 years, where I did not bake much. There was college, then work and general growing up – Life happened. But once I started living alone in Gurgaon, I started cooking for myself a lot more. And the first things I bought for the kitchen were not pans and spatulas – but an oven and measuring cups 🙂

One of the best food memories I have of growing up was eating simple vanilla cake! Specifically pound cakes, tea cakes and loaves with a vanilla base. However, I somehow never got around to baking a pound cake until very recently. I was somewhat daunted by the task of baking something so close to my heart. When I decided to setup this blog, I knew I had to have a pound cake (or a few) in it. But, turns out it wasn’t that easy to bake a pound cake. Who would have thought? I had a fair few not-so-great outcomes. But after some trying and testing, I finally feel I’ve got it right! I’ve nailed the flavours I loved when I was a child and I feel that I can now confidently say I can bake a lovely pound cake 🙂

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