Pumpkin Yeast Bread

I have been baking a lot of breads lately and the experience has been truly amazing. When you look at the baked beauties, its overwhelming. So here comes October, the Halloween month proposing a challenge from the Baking Partners and here is the lovely bread baked with a star ingredient - Pumpkin.

Honeycomb Buns or Bee’s Hive Buns - Khaliat Nahal

From the desert summer to the rains back home, a  2 month get away has made me home sick like never before. Back to base and nose deep into routines,I kept myself away from baking. And,here I rise up to the
We knead to bake Challenge no.9 -  Honey comb buns.
 A Middle eastern delicacy,usually sweet and can be made savory too. Khaliat Nahal literally translates to Bee hive in Arabic.The name takes after the way the buns are baked so close to each other forming a honey comb pattern.

Flaming Fruit Pudding

This is a simple and awesome dessert........A delightful variety of fruit bites tossed into a bed of vanilla custard covered with whipped cream and top it with  thick broken bits of strawberry flavored jelly.

Chocolate Chiffon Cake

I made this cake a month ago - did not post it here. Love it so so much that I kept it for the 100th follower of A Portion to Share. And this goes out to Anita of Recipe with pictures......an interesting space filled with tested and tried recipes.

This is a very light and spongy cake from Joy of Baking............. so well described in the video and the post as well. I'm not repeating the recipe here ,because I have followed the JOB recipe word to word. Great cake...must try !

Bialy

A bialy is often described as a bread flatter than a bagel with an indentation - not a hole - on the top, that is generally filled with onions and any other filling of your choice.It is crisper and denser than a bagel and when toasted, is crunchy. 

Torcettini di Saint Vincent (Sugar Crusted Twisted Cookies from the Valle d’Aosta)

We Knead to Bake,of course we need to :) I have never tried cookies with yeast and this challenge taught me how to.One can get a lil skeptical when you see this cookie recipe where yeast is used unlike baking powder which is the norm......make to it believe it- it is simple and sweet.

Adapated from A Baker’s Tour by Nick Malgieri

Eggless Cheesecake - Strawberry

I have been cooking and baking for a while now ,Cheesecake is something I never bothered to try at home. It is definitely a comfort food and I took comfort in buying a slice to please my taste buds. However, the Baking Partners challenge #9 changed all that and here's the result..................................