Healthy Living India’s Fresh Strawberry Birthday Cake!

Healthy Living India completes two years in the big bad blogging world today, and we thought - what better way to celebrate our baby's second birthday than with a cake made of fresh strawberries and lots of healthy almonds! Yes, this fresh strawberry cake has generous doses of sugar (brown), flour (mixed with whole wheat), and butter (unsalted), but this underlines what Healthy Living India maintains - If you eat right and exercise regularly, you can celebrate and indulge your...

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Almond and Honey Cookies

Holiday cookies just got healthier. By simply replacing the standard cookie recipe’s sugar content with honey, we stumbled upon a great little Almond and Honey cookie recipe. We also replaced the regular butter needed in the cookie with some unsalted butter, and added some multi-grain flour to the dry contents mix. What’s more? We toasted and ground some almonds for that extra nutrients punch and voila – we have our very own quick and healthy holiday cookie recipe. So if...

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Fresh Tiramisu with Orange Mint Salad Recipe

This is a guest post by pastry chef Anubhav Sethi. Try this amazingly simple version of a tiramisu served with a refreshing orange and mint salad. Tiramisu, literally means ‘Pick me up’ in Italian, and is a very light coffee and mascarpone cheese flavoured dessert. It basically consists of finger biscuits (available at most supermarkets like Spinneys or Carefour) soaked in a coffee syrupand layered with a mousse-like mascarpone based cream. We serve this with an orange mint salad, which provides...

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Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

Baking cookies is a lot like looking for love – you whip up everything right and then wait. Tick. Tock. Tick. Crisp, soft, or burnt, largely depends on the ingredients, your oven and above all – chance. Sometimes when you put in everything nice like oatmeal, chocolate, peanut butter, butter, sugar and milk, there is very little that can go wrong (The metaphor ends here). In this post we take a quick look at how you can whip up these...

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Super Quick and Easy Banana Bread Recipe

The other day, while whipping up some banana bread, I decided to bring myself up to speed with what this Glee thing is all about. As the banana bread grew from whisked flour to creamy batter, I realised that Glee is just another popularity contest where a bunch of geeky and horizontally challenged kids earn street cred by being better than the popular kids. Sounded like Beverly Hills 90210 (Move aside 2008 version. I will always and forever love you...

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Simple Carrot Cake Recipe

A few months ago I confessed that baking was not my thing, no matter how many baking recipes I attempted. No amount of baking powder helped raise my baking quotient. Then, I discovered simple, foolproof baking recipes like the Chicken Casseroles, the Banana Cake, Stuffed Pasta Rolls and now the Carrot cake. This Carrot cake recipe should actually be called Carrot Apple Coconut Walnuts Vanilla cake recipe, but that would be too long a name, and we’d never get to the part where...

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