Chocolate Barfi is becoming a real favourite - We've taken our creamiest barfi and dipped it in a wickedly rich chocolate coating to create a real treat for your taste buds - and the kids love it too!

Molasses sugar is a dark brown, almost black, moist granular sugar. It can be used interchangeably with Muscovado sugar, but molasses sugar has a stronger taste as compared to Muscovado. It's distinctive molasses taste is due to its high content of molasses. Nutrively, it has high iron contents . Molasses sugar is often used in chutneys, pickles, and marinades, as well as in Christmas cakes.

Chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that originated in the United States and features chocolate chips as its distinguishing ingredient. The traditional recipe combines a dough composed of butter and both brown and white sugar with semi-sweet chocolate chips. Variations include recipes with other types of chocolate or additional ingredients, such as nuts or oatmeal.

Dark Chocolate Cake better than one of these delicious chocolate cakes, from classic devil's food to molten, flourless, and ricotta-icebox varieties.

These pancakes are light and fluffy and great for a weekend brunch. Try adding a large handful of fresh blueberries to the batter before cooking. It's quick and easy to prepare, but we still consider it a special treat. I make it for breakfast and to satisfy a sweet tooth. Topped with a fresh fruit sauce, it's a wonderful dessert.

Banana Muffins are a muffin version of the Banana Bread. They start with a thick sweet batter that is full of mashed bananas, ground cinnamon and toasted nuts. Banana Muffins are a snap to make. Just mix the dry ingredients together in one bowl, the wet ingredients in another bowl. Combine the two and you are done. When you pull the banana muffins from the oven their golden brown crusts are delightfully crisp and although their crusts soften once covered and stored, their wonderful moist texture and sweet flavor remain intact.

Gluten free cookies from the Sprouted Kitchen Cookbook, featuring bits of dark chocolate, shredded coconut, and hearty almond meal.

These are chewy, healthy oatmeal cookies which can be prepared in a number of variations, just add nuts, raisins, chocolate chips, coconut, candied fruit or any other additions.

The lychee has a history and cultivation going back as far as 2000 BC according to records in China. Cultivation began in the area of southern China, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Wild trees still grow in parts of southern China and on Hainan Island. There are many stories of the fruit's use as a delicacy in the Chinese Imperial Court. It was first described and introduced to the west in 1782.

Channa Doss or Doce is a Goan sweet that requires very few ingredients but lot of patience and tremendous amount of stirring. Its fairly easy to make and the end result is one of the simplist sweets that still ends up getting consumed too soon. Prior to starting let we warn you that its a tough one, family support is a boon when it comes to stirring. Enjoy this Christmas this with some Chonache Doss.

Parsi ravo is similar to shira/sanja/shiro/sooji ka halwa/ravo kesari which is found in other parts of India. The only difference, I find is that instead of the flavor of cardamom/nutmeg, vanilla essence is added. We enjoy this “Ravo” during Pateti, Jamshedi Navroz, Navrooz and Birthdays at our home.

Indian dry fruit chikki is made by cooking dryfruits with grated jaggery.

Coconut Chikki is made with dried coconut, poppy seeds and sugar. This is a sweet delight, specially made to celebrate various Indian festivals like Holi, Diwali and Rakhi. Learn to make quick, easy and tasty coconut chikki and distribute with lots of love.

This is one of the sweets which is prepared during Diwali..known as pityache ladoo in konkani.It is simple delicious and can be had at anytime of the day :-) some people prefer these over besan ladoo (I shall be posting shortly) but I like both equally.

A traditional spicy and sour drink prepared from yoghurt in Northen part of India.Generally the savory drink is popular however the sweet version is also famous. A very beneficial drink to pamper in hot summer besides curing the problem if indigestion and other gut related ailments.A very rich combination of spicy , sour , salty taste blended with natural sweetness of buttermilk.So let’s start the recipe.