Nutella Hot Chocolate

Winter, yes this season calls for some fabulous warm foods to keep ourselves warm to face this drastic weather. Winter for us goes for some cheesy foods, comforting bowl of soups to keep yourself good. I will try to keep my lunch or dinner as simple as possible during this weather. Winter warmers are must especially for kids, obviously i will do some exclusive foods during this weather. Usually i avoid deep frying  however winter pulls us to make crispy fritters just to please our tastebuds. Can refuse na, as winnter's chilled weather asks for hot and crispy foods. You may wonder why am talking about the Winter, i have a reason for this.

Vegan Dark Chocolate & Almonds Truffles

Chocolate truffles are bite-sized chocolate confectionery made traditionally with chocolate and warm cream. Yes chocolate ganache coated with melted chocolate, cocoa powder or chopped toasted nuts are fondly called as chocolate truffles. Shaped usually as spherical, conical or curved shape, these chilled chocolate cream are just prefect to enjoy during Christmas. Not to forget that, truffles are must in our Christmas dinner table as these chocolate confectionery makes a fabulous dessert after a festive meal. Truffles, this chocolate treats got their name as they ressembles as much like the edible fungus which is called as truffles. Varieties of truffles do exists, my favourite is always French chocolate truffles which is made with fresh cream and chocolate, once chilled, they are rolled in cocoa or nut powder.

Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle

Brittle is a kind of confection made with broken pieces of hard sugar candy with nuts like pecans, almonds or peanuts. These brittles have their own place especially in Christmas friendly candies list. Varieties of brittles exists if you go through google. I seriously want to make some old fashioned style of Peanut brittles since a while. When i picked Christmas candies as theme for this week's blogging marathon, i gathered all the ingredients to give a try to some Old fashioned aka grandma's style peanut brittles. Usually prepared with a hard sugar candy, old fashioned brittle calls for baking soda to bring a nice honeycomb like texture to this candies. Its quite a real fun to see the way the sugar syrup gets changed in colour once the baking soda is added to them. I seriously enjoyed making this extremely delicious peanut brittle for this week's theme.

Cashew Dark Chocolate Fudge

This week's theme for blogging marathon is going to be Christmas candies. Christmas is nearing and its going to be much fun here, we love this period of festivity. This year, we will be celebrating Christmas and New year at our friend's place as we are planning for a get together with other friends since a while. Obviously each and everyone are supposed bring some of their home made dishes to make this get together more delicious. Am planning to make some bakes and some starters to carry. Am eagerly waiting for this day, as its going to be some super fun moments to meet few of our friends who were living in South France. Coming to today's post, am kicking starting this week's theme with a simple yet a nutty, rich, chocolatey and dangerously delicious fudge.

Mini Baked Veg Pizza Empanadas

Empanada is a pastry which is either baked or fried depending upon many countries in America and Spain. I love baked versions of Empanadas, and this dish is definitely an excellent munchies to have either for snacks or for a meal when served along with either salads or with a bowl of soup. I have already tried couple of Empanadas, though i have few versions to try. Hence my today's post is an another interesting and kid's friendly empanadas which is baked few days back for our evening snacks. Pizza Empanadas, my kids went crazy when i served them once these empanadas came out of the oven. These tiny cuties vanished very quickly than i imagined.
Sending this to Srivalli's Kid's Delight event, guest hosted by Ritu themed on Movie Time Munchies.

Red Cabbage Coleslaw/Purple Cabbage Coleslaw

We are officially entered to Summer season since two days back, obviously i have been preparing some summer salads for our evening dinner as they are easy to dish out. I love to prepare my own dose of coleslaw at home. Coleslaw is a salad prepared mainly with finely shredded raw cabbage, which is usually served with a vinaigrette or mayonnaise dressing. Coleslaw is definitely a prefect summer salad as they are really very easy to dish out. This salad can be prepared earlier as they are easy to conserve and serve chilled for a meal. It can be served very well as side dish with grilled meats or fried meats or else they can be served along with French fries.Colselaw can be used in filling for making some sandwiches as well.

Fry Sauce/French Fry Sauce

My last but not least sauce for this week's blogging marathon is this super easy Fry sauce. Am running this week's blogging marathon with Condiments on side as theme. After two delicious condiments, here comes one of the simplest and very quick condiment aka Fry sauce. Fry sauce can be prepared with simple ingredients, yes just with three ingredients. This fry sauce is ready to serve with your french fries, burgers or grilled meats. Though this sauce is a best accompaniment for french fries, you can serve this sauce very much with baked vegetables as well. This sauce is quite like the popular Cocktail sauce which makes a great addition to serve along with seafoods.

Baked Potato-Carrot Tater Tots

After a month of silence, am here with a new week of blogging marathon. And my theme for this week is Kid's delight - Bite sized foods. Obviously this week's posts are going to be kid's friendly bite sized foods. And my today's post is a simple, gluten free, guilt free, easy breezy baked Tater tots which is dished out simply with our favourite vegetable aka Potato. Since i dont want to prepare a usual tater tots, i couldnt stop myself adding some grated carrots to make them more healthy and catchy. Though tater tots are easily available in some part of the world, they are very easy to dish out ourselves at home. However tater tots calls for basic ingredients which is easily available in our pantry.Sending this to Srivalli's Kids Delight event, guest hosted by Refeeda, themed on "Bite Sized Food" for Kids.

Crunchy No Bake Chocolate Cereal Squares

My kids love to have their breakfast with chocolate cereals or else with wholegrain cereal flakes along with chilled milk. Obviously my pantry will have different sorts of cereals, however whenever i do my weekly grocery, i dont forget to grab some packets of cereals as well. When i picked Kid's delight -Chocolate as theme for this week's blogging marathon, i was very much sure to prepare some no bake cereal squares with peanut butter and chocolate for this week's theme. Just with 3 simple ingredients and an easy breezy microwaving cooking process is quite enough to dish out this super crunchy cereal squares.

Cinnamon Hot Chocolate

Hot Chocolate is my younger one's most favourite drink. Flavored with any spices or with vanilla, he can just drink his mug of hot chocolate without any fuss. Obviously when i picked Kid's delight-chocolate as theme, i couldnt think more than preparing my kid's favourite hot chocolate but flavored with cinnamon. Varieties of Hot chocolates do exists, however drinking chocolate or cocoa is definitely a comforting food while the weather is super chilled or rainy outside. European style of hot chocolates tends to be highly rich and thick while in United States, hot chocolates are simple and easy to make thinner versions. Not to forget that hot chocolates always have distinctive additives or toppings.

Double Chocolate Fudgy Brownies

While facebooking, i crossed a 'Tasty' video about Brownies obviously if anything baked with chocolates i dont forget bookmark it. Yes this brownies are from that video and this double chocolate fudgy brownies is seriously very easy to prepare and bake. Get all your ingredients ready, just a bowl and whisk is enough to whip out this dangerously addictive fudgy brownie. With usual ingredients, with simple preparation method, just bake this dark beauties to please your sweet tooth. And the utterly delicious fudgy texture comes from some roughly chopped chocolate chunks added to the brownie batter.

Mini Herbed & Garlic Butter Monkey Bread

Bite sized appetiziers are mostly finger foods, since i picked kid's delight - Bite sized appetizers theme for this week's blogging marathon, i decided to bake some mini sized herbed and garlic butter flavored monkey bread. Though monkey bread are baked usually in bundt cake pan, you can bake some cute mini monkey breads with your muffin pans as well. Trust me, these mini monkey bread rolls are definitely a crowd pleaser with fabulous aroma. As much as like usual garlic monkey bread, these tiny bread rolls will definitely please your tastebuds if you love garlic butter in your bakes.

Apple, Oats & Chocolate Chips Pudding

Pudding, this dessert can be prepared with fruits, bread slices or else with grains like rice, oats etc. Pudding can be sweet or savoury, also they can be prepared either by baking, steaming or else by boiling. Depending upon the ingredients went in it, pudding can be served as main course or else for desserts. Today's post is a delicious, simple and fruity pudding baked with apples, chocolate chips and rolled oats. Easy to prepare this pudding can be prepared quickly. Almost like one bowl cakes, you just need a bowl and a whisk to prepare this fantastic pudding.

Apple & Peach Crisp with Oat Topping

Though its fall season here, we do get some summer fruits eventhough they are very rare in farmer's market. Recently hubby brought to home, a small paquet of peaches from the farmer's market but unfortunately they were nt sweet, obviously none want to have those peaches. Since i dont like to trash anything easily, i turned those sweetless peaches as a fabulous dessert along with apples. Apples and peaches works awesome as crisp and these crisp turned out extremely delicious. Served either as warm or chilled, this ultimate apple and peach crisp makes an excellent dessert to relish after a heavy meal.

Apple & Nutella Galette

After three months break, am kick starting the usual three days of blogging marathon with a fantastic theme, my theme for this week's blogging marathon is Apple Desserts. Apple is the fruit we get almost every season of the year. From red apples to golden apples, apples are my favourite fruits, but unfortunately i cant eat them as am allergic to this ultimate fruit. Obviously i bake many delightful baked goodies or desserts with this incredible fruit to please my tastebuds. Since i picked Apple desserts as theme for this week's blogging marathon, i baked three fantastic baked dishes with apples. To kick start this first day, am posting a rustic style galette with nutella and sliced apples, topped with almond flakes.

Cinnamon Chocolate Sauce

As we are chocolate lover family, i couldnt stop myself to prepare this easy breezy chocolate sauce flavored with cinnamon powder. This flavourful chocolate sauce when drizzled over your pancakes, your bread toast or else simply to top over your banana split, trust me you will definitely fell in love with this ultimate sauce. With simple ingredients and easy cooking process, your cinnamon chocolate sauce will gets ready in less time to enjoy with your favourite desserts or foods.

Homemade Creamy Caramel Sauce

Prepare a simple caramel sauce at home with some sugar and make them as creamy just by adding heavy cream makes my today's post aka Creamy caramel sauce. This sauce will definitely tickle your tastebuds. Honestly this sauce tastes absolutely fantabulous when served along with your pancakes or on the top of your brownies. However we enjoyed this delicious caramel sauce with crepes. Apart from preparing your own caramel sauce, this sauce is very simple to dish out. Take care while adding cream to the prepared caramel sauce, as there may be many projections of hot caramel.

Gluten Free Raspberry Sauce

If you are looking for a fantastic sauce to top your crepes, pancakes or else your cheesecake or simply to drizzle over some scoops of icecream, please take a look to my today's post. With simple cooking process, this raspberry sauce gets ready very quickly than you can imagine. Either with fresh raspberries or frozen ones, this raspberry sauce calls for simple stove top cooking. With just 4 ingredients, you can dish out your own raspberry sauce with less efforts. I prepared my raspberry sauce with frozen raspberries, obviously if you get fresh raspberries, dont forget to make your own sauce either by spicing them with whole spices, however i didnt spiced mine.

No Bake Peanut Butter Bars

My today's post is one among the quickest dessert you can dish out in no time. Yes very easy to put all the ingredients together and prepare quickly than you can imagine. Just with 5 ingredients, you can dish out this lipsmacking no bake peanut butter bars. Crushed biscuits, butter, peanut butter, honey and chocolate is needed to prepare this fantastic munchies. These no bake bars calls for microwave cooking, just heat the peanut butter,butter and finally mix the honey and finely crushed biscuits makes this bars. Later once topped with melted chocolate, this bars are ready to munch after a meal as dessert or to pack in anyone's snack box.

Microwave 1 minute Single Serving Brownies

Brownies, this chocolate loaded usually baked as square shaped dessert makes an excellent sweet dish to relish after a meal. If its a quick and easy version brownies who will say no, i tried my hands is making a minute single serving brownies for this week's blogging marathon. My theme for this week's blogging marathon is Kid's delight-Chocolates. Obviously kids will go crazy if they see this delicious quick brownies. Easy to make, you can dish out these alluring brownies with less efforts, almost like mug cake, you just need a bowl or ramekin to cook these brownies through microwave cooking.