Daring Baker's August Challenge - Petit Fours with Brown Butter Pound Cake

The Daring Baker's Challenge for the month of August was hosted by Elissa of 17 and Baking. We were required to make a brown butter pound cake, an icecream and then use them to make either Ice Cream Petit Fours or Baked Alaska. Due to shortage of time, I decided to make brown butter pound cake and then Petit fours from only the cake while having store bought icecreams on the side:)

Walnut Ladoo

Tired of eating Aata Ladoo or Besan Ladoo [Most of you are thinking (including myself) - not possible !!), try these delicious and healthy walnut ladoo for a change!

Basil Pesto

Basil pesto is super easy to make and once you make it at home, you would think twice before buying it from store :) The classic use of pesto is for pasta, sandwiches, and bruschetta.

Swiss swirl ice cream cake - July Daring Baker's Challenge

The daring Baker's Challenge "Swiss swirl ice cream cake" for July 2010 was rolled out by Sunita of Sunita's world life and food. Not only did we have to make swiss roll, two different flavors of ice creams and a chocolate fudge sauce were experimented in my little kitchen for the first time. Without doubt, this was the most time consuming challenge that I have done so far. Perhaps as I didn't have an ice cream maker but it was well worth the effort.

Italian Love Cake

This was my first baking exploration and I always associate this with hunting the grocery store for cool whip cream, instant pudding mix, ricotta cheese and measuring cups. The path was quite irresistible especially after tasting a piece of it at an annual senior graduation party and an interesting name!

Mexican Wedding Cookies

About a month ago, I made the mexican wedding cookies for the first time with some changes to this recipe. Since then I have made them thrice:) DO NOT eat more than a cookie at a time - these are calorie devils!

Thumbprint Cookies

My all time favorite cookies/biscuits are from Venus bakery in Jaipur. Along with mom's hand made ladoo and mathri, Rawat misthan's pyaz kachori, I would always have them in my suitcase when I went back to the hostel in middle school after holidays and to all the other subsequent hostels thereafter:) I was introduced to these cookies by my sister like the other zillion things in my life :) Since both my sister and brother were also at hostel's at that time, all the goodies would get divided in to three parts. Even now, mummy makes three packets of anything that even one of us asks her to bring and obviously has hard time packing them in suitcases!