Melon Pan / Japanese Melon Pan Recipe

Due to some personal commitments i could not blog for the past two weeks. Even for another two months i could not post recipes frequently, hope from June I will be back to routine. Now coming to the recipe, for this month's We Knead to Bake we are baking Melon Pan / Japanese Melon Pan. Pans mean bread in Japanese, a popular type of bread bun. They are actually bread buns covered with a layer of pastry or cookie-like dough. Each bread dough dough is wrapped with a cookie dough. And on second rising after wrapping, the inner bread dough will rise and cause the outer pastry layer to crack all over the surface. The name came about as the appearance of the cracked surface resembles a rock melon. In addition, for a basic or standard Japanese melon pan, melon extract is commonly used to add fragrance. This is absolutely a very soft, light and fluffy bread with crispy and mild crunchy sugar cookie crust.

Flax Apple Muffins / Eggless Flax N Apple Muffins / Eggless Apple Flax Muffins

For This week's Love2Bake event, I am sharing a low calorie, low fat, fiber rich, egg free and butter free Flax Apple Muffins. I got this recipe from the Milled Flax seeds' box. The actual Flax Apple Muffins recipe is with egg but I tried it as Eggless muffins by adding banana puree. To my surprise the muffins turned out so good, soft and aromatic. These muffins are perfect for breakfast with some milk and fruits or a perfect after school snack for kids. My kids loved these muffins a lot and the muffins vanished in one day itself.

Tandoori Roti / Tandoori Roti Recipe In oven / Baked Tandoori Roti

Today's recipe is Tandoori Roti / Baked Tandoori Roti / Tandoori Roti in Oven. Tandoori roti is made with a whole wheat flour and is not yeast based and thus its different from Naan, where as Naan is mainly made of white flour and is a yeast bread. Both are done in Tandoor / Clay oven but can also be made in stove top and in oven/baking method also. I tried the baking method and it turned out good. It is very simple and does not involve complicated process or more fancy ingredients. Just a regular chapathi dough using whole wheat flour with the addition of yogurt needed to make a very soft, flavorful Rotis in oven. Only thing is you need either pizza stone or cast iron pan which holds more heat and thus gives a tandoor effect. Now off to the recipe...

Garlic Bread From Scratch / Homemade Garlic Bread Recipe

For this Month's We Knead To Bake, Aparna let us to Bake our own desired Bread. I have a huge list of breads in my Bookmarked folder. And this Garlic Bread From Scratch is one of the bread in my to do list and is one my family's favorite bread. I often make this garlic bread with store bought breads. But for the first time tried it from scratch and it was so perfect. we just loved it, I doubled the original recipe and made 2 loaves. First day served as a snack and the other day we had it for dinner along with Pizza. None will say No to this crispy crust, soft centered garlic flavored bread. And the method also simple and enjoyed baking this flavorful bread for my kids. This is a must try for all Garlic bread lovers, sure a keeper recipe. I decided to make it again and again for my kids.

Onion Bell Pepper Focaccia / Spicy Onion Red Pepper Focaccia

For this week's Love2Bake event , I am sharing one of my favorite bread Focaccia - Onion Bell Pepper Focaccia. I used the same recipe of Potato Focaccia Pugliese for the dough with sauteed spicy onion bell pepper topping. Since me and V love spicy stuff I added chilli flakes in herbed oil and also with sauteed onion bell pepper topping. It was a total hit and even my kids loved it more than the Rosemary Potato Focaccia. This bread makes a perfect snack with some hot beverage or can be served as a meal along with some soup. I served it for evening snack along with Marinara Sauce. Nice crusty outer with soft and chewy bread.

Savory Semolina Cake / Savory Semolina Carrot Cake

From this Month, For Love2Bake event you have an option to post any 3 Mondays in a Month but the event runs every Monday. And also no linky tool and the participants don't need to link to my post rather just link back to My Event Page. And if you are interested can share your Love2Bake recipes on our Facebook Group. And today Monday am here with a Savory Bake for Love2Bake event, Savory Semolina Cake. I bookmarked this cake from Neha's blog long back and finally baked it today. This is a spicy flavorful soft savory cake loaded with carrot & peas. Delicious filling cake that can be served as snack or a meal for Breakfast along with some fruits & milk. The cake tasted so good and we had it with Chaat Chutneys. A must try for all who love savory bakes. This is an egg free, butter free cake.

Baked Mathri / Baked Methi Mathri / Methi Ki Mathri

Today's recipe is a popular North Indian Snack Methi Mathri, baked version. This is the first time i am trying this snack but have tasted the fried mathri from stores. Mathri is a flavorful, delicious savory crackers and there are few varieties like Methi, Peas,Dhaniya Mathri. I tried the Methi Mathri to make it a guilt free healthy snack i baked it instead of deep frying. The baked one also turned out so good crispy, crunchy and tasty. After a long search i finally experimented with the basic ingredients for Mathri and to my surprise it come out perfectly. We all loved this crunchy crackers, perfect & guilt free munch on movie time, game time. These flavorful crackers just vanished in no time. Also this is a very easy and simple recipe you don't need to knead the dough soft & elastic, just a mixing is enough and the important thing is the dough should be tight. Doesn't need butter like regular sugar cookies just a tbsp is enough or you can even replace it with oil.

Cantaloupe Muffins / Eggless Cantaloupe Muffins / Vegan Cantaloupe Muffins

Cantaloupe Muffins is one of my recent experiment that turned out so good. This is a Egg free, Vegan muffins made using whole wheat flour and fresh Cantaloupe Puree. Cantaloupes or Must Melon is my favorite fruit and love the fruit in any form but the Cantaloupe Juice is my most favorite. Cantaloupes are low in Saturated Fat and Sodium, and very low in Cholesterol. It is also a good source of Dietary Fiber, Niacin, Vitamin B6 and Folate. It is also a very good source of Vitamin A, Vitamin C and Potassium. Its always good to consume the fruit as such fresh way but once in a while can also make such delicious bakes with such healthy fruits or veggies.

Biscuit Sablé / Eggless French Shortbread Biscuits / Shortbreads Recipe

From this Monday Love 2 Bake event starts and as per the event Every coming Monday i will be posting a Baked recipe. I am happy to see the response and support from my fellow bloggers and Thank you friends for joining hands with me and lets learn and experiment more.

Love 2 Bake ~ Event Annoucement

Hi Friends,

I am happy to announce another New Event of Spicy Treats, Love 2 Bake. I love baking and i know many friends out there do too. Blogging helps to learn and improve my Baking passion. I wanted to try everything from scratch and most of the recipes shared here are from scratch, bread, pizza, cakes & everything. My passion towards baking also lead me to join in the two main baking groups Aparna's We Knead to Bake & Priya's Home Baker's Challenge. These two are monthly events but i wanted to experiments and learn more in baking science, i wanted to bake frequently and also want to try Eggless baking, Vegan bakes, healthy low fat bakes & more so i thought of creating a new event for baking alone with my blogger friends. I had this event in my mind of long time and when i discussed it with some of friends they really motivated and encouraged me to start the event soon. Thanks to Vardhini, Manjula, Nalini, Priya R, Viji, for your support and encouragement. Very special thanks to Divya Prakash for creating this beautiful logo for Love 2 Bake event.