On Sake the Bake’s third blogversary I would like to thank you for being part of my journey. I am grateful for all the love and encouragement I have received over the years from 42 countries. When I started (rather …
The Billowy Banoffee Pie 🥧
Guess who turned 2yrs?????? What better way to kick start Sakethebake’s 2nd Blogversary(that too which falls on a numerical palindrome day 02.02.2020) than with the luscious decadence of a billowy Banoffee pie ??!!!! There’s no denying how alluring a well …
Happy 1st blogversary : Sake the bake turns 1 and unveils the new logo.. ♥️
And just like that Sake the Bake turns 1 ♥️… I am happy to officially unveil my logo ! This logo sums it all up .. the child in you .. the exuberance .. the passion ..the joy.. the freedom.. …
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The “Sake the Bake” Story…
“Don’t touch the knife, you will hurt yourself!” are clearly the words that still ring in my ears whenever I think of my father. That was nearly 3 decades ago and it greatly influenced my desire to cook without knives. …
Crispy Chicken Fritos 🍗
What are the lessons Covid (now it sounds like a pet name for the dreaded guest, who now we have to befriend for our own sake!!!) continues to teach us ? For me it is .. opportunities are all around …
“Meltdown” Ice cream (Cake!!!) 🎂
Keeping to the lockdown theme .. I made a “meltdown” 🤨 cake for my little tornado who turned 9. She sets her expectation of me very high and then announces to all and sundry in present tense.. “my mother is …
Chicken Kurma Biryani 🍗
There are many legends associated with the evolution of “Biryani” that spans many centuries, many cultures, many spices and many cooking styles. From an army dish to a dish fit for royalty, the biryani today is a much sought-after culinary …
Apple n’ Cinnamon Oatmeal Pots 🍎
Don’t you think a recipe has no soul and you as a cook must bring soul to the recipe ? I don’t believe there are any hard and fast rules in cooking ! There is common sense and there are …
Marble Bundt Curfew Cake
How many things would you attempt, if you knew you could not fail ? Sometimes all we need is a new perspective and therein you can choose a different outcome ! On all India curfew day to flatten the pandemic …
G-13 Track Cake
I spent my whole childhood wishing I was older and now I am spending my adulthood wishing I could go back to my childhood days. My fondest memories are of the 2 months of summer holidays we used to spent …
Gingerbread “Drone” Cookies 🎄
Don’t you think the build up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself?? Hmmm…like most things?? Life is about the journey and not about reaching the destination, I keep proclaiming!! Have faith in your journey, …
Spicy Chicken Yum Tum 🍗
Life has meaning when you are doing things to help others, so extend yourself and try to lift someone up. Whether that means being a better friend, helping those in need, or supporting causes that mean something special to you, …
“Founders Day” Kahlúa Cake♥️
What else would you call a birthday cake you make for the founder of Sake the Bake (psst: if you are new to the blog or have a memory loss with information overload like me, i am talking about my …
Baked Brown Rice with Tuna and Creamy Cheese Sauce 🍚
Step by Step. Day by day. You don’t need to have all the answers to start.. you just need to be willing to take the first step. In my ‘evolving’ career (as I love to call it 😀)from being a …
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High Intensity Interval Cookies (HIIC) 🍌🏋🏾♀️
I don’t know about you but I just don’t trust packaged food for everyday consumption. It irks me each time I see my friend polishing off a packet of cookies at every meeting. So finally, after the numerous times I …
Classic whole wheat Pizza base 🍕
Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you were supposed to be ? Life moves on and life will sort itself out, and even if it’s all different than what we expected, life does, always, …
Baked Halloumi fries 🍟
Halloumi is the god of all cheeses. This Cypriot origin cheese is loved for its robust texture and umami flavour. Keep in mind, it is salty on its own! What I love about these fries are it has a lovely …
Divine whole wheat Apple and Cinnamon Crêpes 🍎
I am a day dreamer and a night thinker ! My brain works over time at night and by morning I have so much more clarity on what I want to do ! Sometimes I wake up to make notes …
The Devour Me Churros😋
Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you ..so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place ! Doesn’t that make sense ? Do we …
Soulful Spaghetti with Baked Meatball Sauce 🍝
I have always been someone who looks for more than what “meats” the eye. I never ever realised how easy a recipe this Italian comfort food is, unless you are Italian and you know it’s not even Italian🤨. If you …
Tornado Cupcakes 🌈🧁
As my little tornado with pretty eyes and a beautiful soul turns 8, I feel I learnt more from her than she has from me ! Never a dull moment with her around, as she challenges every norm in the …
Whole Wheat Cheese Frisbees ( Eggless ) 🧀 🥑
It is said one change can create a snow balling effect. A change eventually impacts your values, self-perception and goals. Which is why what worked for you in the past may not necessarily work in the future. Have you noticed …
Vanilla burst cookies 🍪
Isn’t life better lived when you don’t center it on what’s happening around you but what’s happening inside you ?Work on yourself and your inner peace ! Or work on some super easy cookies for your kids class party 🥳. …
‘George’ous Chocolate Cake 🎂
I am in a “whatever happens…happens” mindset. I am learning to embrace opportunities that come my way with less skepticism. Thank god for 3G. (2G + 1G). Life gets boring when you stay within the limits of what you already …
The Eggless wonder 🍫
“Feeling my way through the darkness Guided by a beating heart… I can’t tell where the journey will end But I know where to start.. They tell me I’m too young to understand. They say I’m caught up in a …
Pullman’s best ever Chocolate Mug Cake ☕️
If I have learned anything this year .. it is that I won’t ever be ready for what life throws at me ! I won’t have the right words when it counts, I won’t know what to choose when fate …
Scorched Fish Bake 😋
I love non intimidating baking recipes… there is so much to do than toil in the kitchen…life is hard enough .. baking doesn’t need to be ! I love love love this recipe for it’s simplicity and flavourful fun by …
Baked Napoletana Savoury Crepe’s (Veg 🙃)
I ’ve learned a lot this year…🤔I’ve learned that things don’t always turn out the way you planned, or the way you think they should!!! And I’ve learned that there are things that go wrong and don’t always get fixed …
The ChocoBanOr Scaramouche Cake ( Aka The one bowl Chocolate Banana and Orange cake 🙃 )
I might as well tell you upfront and save you from guessing that I am still reeling from having watched the movie “Bohemian Rhapsody”. This recipe is the “Queen” of cakes.. moist and tender. I love how the flavour of …
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Asian Roast Chicken with Pan gravy 🍗
As the French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote in the early 19th century “Poultry is to the cook, what canvas is to the painter.” Poultry’s versatility is the cooks greatest asset. So I made an informed decision to start the …
The Ultimate Chocolate Cake 🎂
Life doesn’t come with a manual .. it comes with a mother they say. I am proud to say I am my mother’s daughter ! Thank god she was the unconventional mother! Where sports took precedence over everything else …A …
The Sunset Piñata cake ☀️
“The Setting Sun”... When the brain”child” (literally in this case🤗) behind my blog wants her 14th birthday cake to be embellished by the hues of the sun, I have no choice but oblige. Is there anything more beautiful than the …
Scampi-licious 🦐
(AKA Baked Scampi in a warm garlic butter sauce…) The best things in life happen unexpectedly. The best stories begin with “And all of a sudden .. “ Free yourself from expectations. The best will come when and from you …
Whole Wheat Garlic Knots
These yummy garlic knots are made to resemble an ampersand (or in short the symbol &) : a broken infinity ! The ampersand reminds us nothing truly lasts forever but there is always an and… It symbolizes an attachment to …
Creamy Mac & Cheese Bites
Life’s eternal bonds are mostly visible in the simplest of things. Take the humble mac and cheese for example. Might seem a bit mundane and unexciting, but hey, by using some creative thinking even that can be as exciting and …
Easy Peasy Cheesy Margarita Pizza 🍕
You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great ! And if you have never made pizza from scratch before…. this recipe couldn’t get easier. Now you have no excuse to order a …
Vanilla cake with Orange glacé
Check out my fool proof food videos quick and easy ❤️ https://www.manoramaonline.com/pachakam/kerala-kitchen/2018/07/05/easy-vanilla-cake-with-orange-glace.html
Whole wheat carrot cake 🥕
“When you’ve been through something in one sense, you’ve been given a gift. You are uniquely qualified to help others in that situation. You’ve been in their shoes; you know the pain, the discouragement, the battles they fight in their …
Barbeque chicken sliders
Check out a food video I did which is an easy meal by itself, a birthday party snack, a gaming night snack, school snack ….. https://food.manoramaonline.com/food/special-diet/2018/07/05/barbecue-chicken-sliders-recipe.html
Perfect “Marvel Cake”
I could have you for breakfast or in the afternoon sun. If you come in varying measures of chocolate and vanilla, I would crave for you all the time. If you like both Vanilla and Chocolate and never know when …
Chef Bane’s Ultimate Focaccia Bread
Baking always gives me a high! But baking at 12,000 ft with Chef Bane put me on a different altitude. When your family is full of amazing bakers, you devour food. And when you leave your sheltered nest, you find …
Pizza Pinwheels 🍕
” I’ve seen better days but I’ve also seen worse. I don’t have everything that I want but I have all that I need. I woke up with some aches and pains but I woke up. My life may not …
Key Lime Temptress 🥧
There are some temptations you can’t resist ! You know you shouldn’t but you can’t help it ! Something that makes you feel so good shouldn’t have to be that wrong ! Try an eensie weensie slice of this lime …
Baked French toast cups😋
“My wish for you is that this life becomes all that you want it to. Your dreams stay big and your worries stay small. You never have to carry more than you can hold. And while you’re out there, getting …
Date and Walnut Oatmeal Bars
I can’t control everything in my life but I certainly can control what I put in my body !!! Hmmm… I can only think..whoever said that … hasn’t eaten good food … 🙄…. just saying !!! This recipe is the …
M&M Cream Cheese Cookies
Life is funny isn’t it ? Just when you think you have it all figured and you know what direction you are headed, the winds change, the paths change, the signs change and north is suddenly south and east is …
Funfetti Unicorn Cake 🦄🌈
When your soon to be 7year old thinks you can make all her cake dreams come true, you have no choice but make a sincere attempt !!!! Especially if you told her the meaning of her name is “ wished …
Mini Wonkas
Mini Wonkas ARE THE ANSWER, who cares what the question is !!!! To my OCD (Obsessive Chocolate Disorder ) friends .. here’s an easy to make miniature chocolate Wonka packed with a double dose of chocolate. I love this moist …
Munchkins’ Muffins ❤️
As much as it’s bad manners to keep a vacation waiting, you have to create a life you don’t need a vacation from.😊 When the kids are on their summer vacay, you need to keep repeating those lines more often …
Red Velveteen Minis ❤️
Who doesn’t want a mid week pick me up ? These luscious, light, moist, red velvety minis will have you oohing and aahing for the right reasons 😉. Enticingly dressed in red, with a hint of tanginess and a drizzling …
Almond and Raisin Curls
Lately, I have been reflecting on what I have learned over the past few months, which really comes down to take the good with the bad, smile when you are sad, love what you’ve got and remember what you had. …
Lazy Daisy Cake 🌼
They say, those we love don’t go away. They walk beside us everyday…. unseen, unheard, but always near, still missed, still loved and very near. As my grand mother’s breathing becomes more and more shallow.. I remember it was just …
Chocolate Tom Thumbs 🍫
When a coffee date over sleeps and you suddenly find yourself with some spare time.. what do you do ? Make some cookies of course !!! Baking to me is such a stress buster. Like most of my hand picked …
Rainbow Swirl Cake with a tie-dye frosting.
What is it about the rainbow that give people an immense sense of happiness ?Colours influence perception. Colours have a huge psychological effect on our emotional well being ! Vibrant colours gives an instant pick me up ! This rainbow …
Tandoori Chicken Skewers 🍗
As much as we love a home cooked meal, what we all love more is a no stress, no mess meal which looks like we toiled the whole day but took very little of our time. This recipe is just …
Marmelade Cake with Orange Cream Cheese frosting 🍊
I tend to be impulsive by nature and I started this blog literally overnight. I never dreamt that I would project my fetishness for cooking without knives as a forerunner. 😀( I usually pretend I am engaged otherwise at the …
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Potato and Cilantro Patties 🥔
Every day we wake up and we get a chance to re-define and re-write our story. What we do today is what matters the most. Today, on International Women’s day let’s vow to to be instruments of change for the …
Sun-kissed Lemon Squares 🍋
I still remember the first time I took a bite of these luscious tangy sun-kissed lemon bars. The buttery crust with the creamy tangy filling makes everything feel oh so right ! As we are heading more and more into …
Nutty Apple Crisp 🍎
Aren’t there those days when all you want to do is curl up on a couch with a book and a bowl of your comfort food ? A warm apple crisp with a scoop of vanilla ice cream …
Golden Meat Bake 🍖
My nephew who was visiting from boarding school has given me strict instructions not to torture him by posting pictures of home baked goodies during the week. So I had to get my act together before the weekend disappeared. The …
Semifreddo with hazelnut and chocolate crunch 🌰
Semifreddo is a fluffy, sliceable ice cream. It is a cross between a custard and an ice cream. It is one of the more luscious and decadent member of the frozen dessert family. Semifreddo which means half cold, maintains a …
The Vanishing Oatmeal Cookie 🍪
Oatmeal cookies are irresistible goodness, to the young and old alike. The vanishing contents of the cookie jar, are testimony to that. Sugar, oats, flour and a modest amount of leavener all work in symphony to make these cookies stay …
Mushroom, Sweet corn and Pepper Quiche 🌽
I treasure days like today when I am in my hometown on a Sunday and I can have brunch at my grandparents home. It is a tradition my grandmother continues even at the age of 90. I keep saying the …
Hell Boy’s Devils Food Cake 🎂
This is one sinful cake in a very heavenly way. There are cake recipes, and then there are cake recipes. The apartment where I stay when I am in the city, have the best cooks in town. (I must read …
Basil infused Pannacotta with a mango purée 🌿
When a dear neighbour sends you a bunch of fresh basil leaves from her organic herb garden, you would want to give the aromatic leaves it’s due as a primary flavouring. Since pesto sauce is not the most popular sauce …
Basil infused Panna cotta with a mango purée 🌿
When a dear neighbour sends you a bunch of fresh basil leaves from her organic herb garden, you would want to give the aromatic leaves it’s due as a primary flavourant. Since pesto sauce is not the most popular sauce …
Baked Chicken Tikka Masala🍗
Given my fetish for cooking without knives, I had always turned to my oven to help bake a meal. Just the thought of standing and stirring at a stove in humid weather just seemed to sap all the energy and …
Brownie Valentina❤️
Of late I wake up every morning knowing the recipe I want to post. Today being Valentine’s Day I was thronged with all the decadent chocolatey treats I could think of. So I happened to ask my BFF in Australia …
Cradled Sausages🌭
This recipe is an adaptation of the Sausage roll which I used to bake and sell in the home-baked section of a local eatery. I used to make this every alternate day for a couple of years but surprisingly till …
Passion Fruit Gateau🍊
Now that the baking bug has bitten me, I woke up early before a much awaited Sunday with my gal pals to make them a vanilla cake with a passion fruit butter cream frosting . I love pairing passion fruit …
Banana Crumble Cake 🍌
Not often do I have my parents and aunt dropping in for tea at the same time. My mom and aunt have greatly inspired my love for baking. My mom makes everything look easy and my aunt made it a …
Chorizo Tulip Toasties 🍖
This is my go to recipe when you have visitors coming over at a short notice. You can put in any filling of your choice as long as it’s a dry filling and doesn’t make the bread soggy. It looks …
Warm Coffee Walnut Cake 🍰
This is a super special recipe as I created it today for a friends restaurant. I sent it to 6 of my friends to taste it and they thought it was amazing. It’s the first of a “Sake ” original …
Crispy Chicken Tenders🍗
Oven Fried Chicken Tenders: This is the top of my kid pleaser menu. I whip it up when I have run out of ideas or patience ( either or both ) , when the kids come home hungry from school. …
My Favourite Chocolate Chip Cookies 🍪
No store bought cookies can ever replace the homemade chocolate chip cookies. You will wonder why you bother buying cookies, when you can so easily make these heavenly cookies with all the regular ingredients from your pantry. The only thing …
Lazy Morning Pancakes 🥞
Pancakes and waffles were regular on our breakfast menu as kids. My sister and I looked forward to our waffle mornings. My mum used to pair it with a jaggery syrup , which tasted so exotic. Now my younger daughter …