Coconut and Jaggery Cookies
Every year during Diwali my mom and dad would crack open a coconut as an offering. My sister and I would fight over the coconut water, which I usually conceded to her because I was more interested in the fresh coconut meat! I love smearing some soft jaggery onto a piece of fresh coconut and […]
Orange Tutti Frutti Icebox Cookies
Here is Diwali dessert recipe number three! Yesterday I shared my Caramelized White Chocolate Peda Bark which pretty much went viral on desi Instagram and I got inundated with comments, messages and shares! Hopefully, you guys will like my eggless Orange Tutti Frutti Icebox Cookies just as much. Tutti Frutti is a beloved Indian confection […]
Caramelized White Chocolate and Peda Bark
My favorite mithai during Diwali has always been penda/peda. It’s a milk fudge made with khoya (solid milk fat), sugar and cardamom. I use a popular shortcut by using powdered milk and sweetened condensed milk for my penda/peda. ! I used some of their milk powder to make my peda/penda. Traditionally, peda/penda are shaped into […]
Upside Down Jaggery & Fig Cake
One of my biggest successes as a mom has been to convince Elara that dried figs are candy and she gets a California Dried Fig from Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid every day in her lunchbox as a treat. Growing up, my mom would incorporate dried figs into just about everything. She’d cut them up and […]
Masala Doodh Cake
I’ve been baking a lot of cakes recently. Cakes for birthday parties, baby showers, and so much more. I figured why not bake one for Diwali! This Masala Doodh cake is inspired by Christina Tosi’s famous naked birthday cake! Masala doodh is a milk drink that has a masala mixture of nuts and spices mixed into […]