A moment on the lips … And the hips won’t lie. You have been warned … Peeking into Rita’s cupboards She has a variety of flours, all neatly labelled. There are containers with rice flour, cassava flour, coconut flour, arrow-root (taro) flour, buckwheat etc. She happily experiments and mixes them up—usually eyeballing it (anapima na…
Author: Sandi Gathuru
Coconut Cake
Want to bake something different? Coconut cake is delicious but I find it needs to be eaten a few hours after it has been taken out of the oven—at its moistest. The next day though, even though it is still delicious, it is a bit dry. What’s with the weird designs in the cake pictures?…
Coconut Banana Muffins
The request More recipes that have coconut, banana and lemon or lime. These muffins were meant to have lemon icing to complete the trinity of tropical flavours. Sadly, lack of time happened. So instead of lemon glaze, I quickly cut up lemons as garnish. The source I found this recipe on Pinterest from a Spoonful…
Apple Crumble
Foods that make us happy Comfort food has the ability to wrap its aromas and mouth feels around you and give you little bursts of joy. Do you sometimes eat something and right there on your seat do a little happy dance usually with your shoulders? Emotional brain To start off, the smell when this…
Easy Apple Crisp
Foods that make us happy Comfort food has the ability to wrap its aromas and mouth feels around you and give you little bursts of joy. Do you sometimes eat something and right there on your seat do a little happy dance usually with your shoulders? Emotional brain To start off, the smell when this…
Passionfruit Meringue Pie
What it has A buttery crust, a tangy but sweet passionfruit curd, and melt-in-your-mouth meringue that balances it all out. It comes in three parts Egg whites for the Swiss meringue Pie crust Passionfruit curd Roll out the pie crust on a dish. Bake blind—without anything in it. In a separate bowl, add egg whites…
Passion Fruit Meringue
What it has A buttery crust, a tangy but sweet passionfruit curd, and melt-in-your-mouth meringue that balances it all out. It comes in three parts Egg whites for the Swiss meringue Pie crust Passionfruit curd Roll out the pie crust on a dish. Bake blind—without anything in it. In a separate bowl, add egg whites…
Marble Cake for a Crowd!
Why? You promised a bunch of boys cake—big boys, small boys, it doesn’t matter. Or for a family gathering. Basically you need a huge cake. And you are not in the mood to bake two different cakes, or double recipes. Awatif’s recipe to the rescue. It is delicious and does not sacrifice moistness because of…
Conversion
It seems to happen that just after I have greased a tin or started kneading, that will be the moment I need to reach for my phone to convert the weights in a recipe. The majority of the time though, the home button—actually my phone in general—tends to be covered with flour. It is no surprise that…
Coconut Lime Zucchini Bread
What shall we name this cake? Courgette cake somehow doesn’t sound as delicious so we will stick with the above. You call it bread but it looks like cake The concept of courgette/zucchini cake is very similar to carrot cake. It is an oil cake but slightly denser (hence its being called a bread and…