baking

Red Velvet Thumbprint Cookies with Cream Cheese and White Chocolate

December 7, 2020 By Asha Shivakumar

Red Velvet Cookies are a must make for Christmas. Baking and holiday season is upon us and I’m so happy to be bring this festive recipe for you. Buttery pillows of rich dreamy thumbprint cookies topped with cream cheese and white chocolate mixed in with cashews.

Red velvet cookies or cake is definitely one of the most festive looking treats for Christmas and the holidays. It’s the sweet marriage of cream cheese and vanilla with a little cocoa for good measure. She’s beautiful, dramatic, and completely topped with cream cheese and white chocolate frosting. This is my favorite.

These cookies are a blend of my two favorites, chocolate and vanilla. In my opinion red velvet shouldn’t be overpowered with chocolate. Red velvet desserts to me is a combination of vanilla and chocolate….

Gluten free Best Tahini Brownies with Peanut Butter

December 4, 2020 By Asha Shivakumar

The BEST brownie recipe! These Tahini Brownies have a crispy top and edges, fudgy middles, and rich chocolate flavor, these homemade brownies will disappear in no time. Double the recipe!

I’ve been making “homemade brownies” that were average for years, until I found the perfect recipe. Anytime I made homemade brownies, I wanted them to be just like the ones I ate made by my team member for Thanksgiving for the old age home – super fudgy, moist, and chocolaty, with crispy edges and crackly tops. They were the best, I’d sneak a few to bring home for the boys. And Grace graciously would box a few for me. She said the recipe came from a friend and almond butter made it ever so perfect….

Honey Walnut Shortbread Cookies

December 9, 2019 By Asha Shivakumar

These Honey Walnut Shortbread Cookies are deliciously crisp and buttery in a classic way, and are especially wonderful for Christmas and holiday baking! I consider them a luxury of cookies, and added bonus with the honey. The dough is easy to make using five simple ingredients.

Dare I say that these are my favorite cookies ever?

Honey Walnut Shortbread Cookies

These shortbread cookies are simply the best around. Your house will smell incredible, I couldn’t wait till they came out of the oven, just desperately needed to put one in my mouth as soon as possible.

These cookies are reminiscent of the Danish butter cookies that come in those blue tins around Christmas time. They taste slightly similar but are not as crispy. With honey in it, its softer on the inside and crispier on the outside….

Classic Spritz Cookies

December 19, 2017 By Asha Shivakumar

These tender butter classic spritz cookies are so easy, and melt in your mouth delicious. The dough is easy to work with, so it’s fun to make these into a variety of festive shapes.

These classic spritz cookies are so buttery and addictive. The dough is easy and comfortable enough that you don’t need a cookie press, but they do make for pretty designs.

Is it Christmas already?

Merry Christmas you guys!!! And the famous question, “How did this year go by so quickly?”…

BEST Coffee-Chocolate Cupcakes with Caramel Mascarpone cream

December 4, 2017 By Asha Shivakumar

Get your caffeine fix with these super moist, flavorful, eggless coffee chocolate cupcakes, topped with caramel mascarpone cream. It’s my favorite recipe, and a guaranteed crowd pleaser for the upcoming holiday parties.

Say Hello to the best coffee chocolate cupcakes that I’ve made. The exact recipe that I’ve been making for the last many years, and one of the first recipes I posted on this blog, was this CUPCAKE. The frosting is a beautiful, delicately flavored cream which holds well with a touch of mascarpone. The coffee is pronounced, but not bitter, and will not keep you up :). It’s a coffee lover’s dream….