Eggless Flaounes (Cypriot Savoury Easter Cheese Pies) :We Knead To Bake #16

Since April is the month for Easter celebrations Aparna thought it would be appropriate to bake an Easter bread. Most of Europe has a tradition of baking rich buttery and eggy sweet breads for Easter and this Easter bread from Cyprus is much the same except that it is savoury. Flaounes are savoury cheese pies…

We Knead to Bake # 15 :Eggless Japanese Melon Pan | Crunchy Cookie Covered Bread Rolls

Melon Bread! This is something I never heard of until this month! Well, Aparna chose to bake this bread for this month’s We Knead to Bake and on looking at the process, it seemed a little daunting! But the mention of  a crunchy top and a soft bread inside made me put aside my fears…

Focaccia Caprese – We Knead To Bake

The first post for Aparna’s We Knead To Bake’ is this wonderful Focaccia. Though this has been on my ‘to-do’ list for a long, long time, I never dared to try it.Not sure why but maybe because of my distant relation with yeast.  But when I started preparing it according to the directions given, it…

Khaliat Nahal (Honeycomb Buns or Beeโ€™s Hive Buns) – We Knead To Bake

This was the bread I was supposed to bake for the month of September in the We knead to bake group. While I enthusiastically joined Aparna‘s baking group, I was totally disheartened when I could not find yeast here. I searched everywhere and all I could find was the dried yeast which did not work…