No-yeast Cinnamon Rolls

Okay, so Snigdha and I share a weakness for certain ingredients. Cinnamon is our favourite when it comes to baking/desserts. Snigdha is so gaga over cinnamon, that she did a mini-version of the Cinnamon Challenge without even realising it. No, really. In fact, we went a bit overboard with this recipe too, but we have a fix for that so no worries!

Cinnamon rolls are usually made with yeast but I know a lot of people (including me) are too impatient to wait for the dough to rise. So this recipe is brought to you by...the magical properties of baking powder! It's not perfect because the yeast makes a more spongy roll, but hey, it's delicious!

We'd both been craving cinnamon rolls for months (months!) but there isn't any place around that makes it. I finally looked it up and, honestly, if I'd known it was so easy, we would have made this ages
ago.

Healthy Date and Almond Bites

The other day my sister challenged me to make something for her mid-morning snack. These were her conditions:

1. It should be nutritious. 

2. It should be small enough to politely eat in office. 

3. It should be delicious, because she was sick of the roasted peanuts and sprouts and other foods that are typically recommended as healthy snacks. 

4. It should be relatively easy, in case she wanted to make it herself later.

With these conditions in mind, I scoured the internet for recipes. One of Tarla Dalal's recipes stood out to me - Date and Almond Balls. While simple enough, it tasted of just dates, as they overpower everything else.

So this is my slightly altered and renamed recipe and it's full of iron, vitamins, antioxidants, minerals and dietary fibre. Yayyy for your immunity and haemoglobin! And yes, my sister was very happy. :)

5 Minute Microwave Cake!

Tanvi and I both LOVE instant food. Any delicious recipe that gets done within 15 mins is literally close to our hearts. Microwave mug cakes are a blessing from heaven!

Sometimes you just crave chocolate. But a bar of chocolate is too sweet or too bitter. And chocolate milk is just not what you want. You want chocolate cake and you want it now! So what do you do?

You make a microwave cake! Yes there are a lot of recipes online for the same. But trust me, this one is tried and tested for perfection. Oh so rich and heart warming (I swear, it literally does)!

A warm cup of rich choco awesomeness!

This recipe takes 5 minutes in total!

Pasta in Red Sauce

I find myself hungry at midnight several times. The clock strikes twelve and here I am trying to control my urge to give in to hunger'oclock, its so strange right?

One of my all time favourite and easy to make midnight snacks is pasta! Yes pasta, I enjoy elaborate meals even in the middle of the night.

Oh hello, delicious!

Pancakes/Crepes

Pancakes for breakfast! Pancakes for lunch! Pancakes for dinner! Pancakes for midnight snacks! Yea yea yea! I'm addicted to pancakes and crepes! I don't think I can get enough of these guys *sigh

No wonder they have a day dedicated to pancakes! But I guess its Happy Pancake Day for me every day! Hail Pancake!

I still remember, the first time I ever made Pancakes, Tanvi happened to be around. We were both so excited over the achievement that we didn't really care about how they were a tab bit salty. Instead we sent a couple of vanilla ice cream scoops over them and ah! We were twinkly eyed for the next several minutes.

They're absolutely easy to make, literally take about 5 mins. And ah! Such comfort food. Makes your insides all happy :D

Crepes with honey strawberries and bananas and blueberries! Yum right?