This rose pistachio white chocolate fudge is my favourite no-bake Diwali sweet. It needs just white chocolate and condensed milk, a little rose water and pistachios, no oven, and it makes the prettiest homemade Diwali gift. It is a fusion of a classic fudge and our Indian barfi: creamy and melt-in-the-mouth, with the fragrance of…
This eggless gulab jamun cake tastes just like the gulab jamuns we all grew up with: soft and spongy, fragrant with cardamom, saffron and rose, and soaked in a light rose syrup. It is my favourite fusion cake for Diwali. I first made this cake for Holi, but honestly, you don’t have to wait for…
Most pantry staples don’t spoil from age. They
spoil from air, moisture, heat and light. Here is
what goes wrong with whole wheat flour,
chickpea flour, nuts, spices and cocoa powder,
and exactly how to store each one, whatever your
climate.
There is a particular kind of heartbreak that only a baker knows. You’ve done everything right. The batter was silky. The oven was hot. Outside, the monsoon is doing its beautiful, dramatic thing — that first proper rain after a long summer, the smell of wet earth drifting through the kitchen window, a cup of…
My life isn’t slow — I film, I write, I’m building a house, I bake for a living. Yet the slowest things I do are the ones that hold my days together. A reflection on chai, kitchens, poetry, and living fully inside a busy world.
A soft, moist, completely eggless peanut butter loaf marbled with a rich chocolate-coffee swirl — the easy tea-time bake for slow, rainy afternoons.
If you’ve just watched my loaf cake compilation on YouTube and you’re standing in your kitchen wondering which one to make first — you are exactly where you’re meant to be. Welcome! There’s a reason I keep coming back to loaf cakes. They ask so little of you — one tin, one bowl, a handful…
Meet the pound cake that hides its secret in the pantry — sweetened condensed milk, doing double duty in both the tender batter and the tangy lime glaze on top.
A soft butter cake base, a thick layer of juicy plums that melts into jam as it bakes, and a crumbly golden streusel over the top. This German-style plum streusel cake is the kind of bake that belongs with an afternoon cup of chai — simple, unfussy and quietly perfect.
A soft, buttery peach butter cake made in one afternoon — simple, forgiving, and bursting with fresh peach flavour in every slice.