Zesty Orange Brownies for Christmas ~ Mamu's Testimony to Sin

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis

The orange flavour came thru very well and the chocolate made it sinful..... The mamu's loved them... Finger licking good :) am so glad.....

Zesty Orange Sugarfree Brownies for Abhimanyu's Birthday Parshad

It was my brother Abhimanyu's birthday and also a Durbar day..... So.... So obviously I made the parshad... Most of the people who give up Sugar due to myriad reasons, crave chocolate cause most of the Sugarfree desserts available commercially are fruity, custardy or creamy....
Step in Nachiketa[pl allow me some immodesty :) ], after my success with Sugarfree Cherry Brownies... I made Sugarfree Orange Brownies :) I used Fresh orange juice and zest along with Splenda...

He's the quintessential Shy-Guy, who has young women swooning around him ;)
That's his mom, my chachi...the evergreen young lady of our house :)


Happy Birthday, Bro :)

Kids Enjoy Easter Fun ~ Adults Enjoy with Zesty Orange Chocolate Brownies

Easter is fun time for kids as exams are over in this part of the world.... There's a break from school for kids just before the new session starts in their new classes....

That's Ciona, in her bunny ears... isn't she just adorable.... She informs me that she's big girl now and is going into her BIG class, Nursery-B. She loved the idea that eggs shells can be painted..

I had quite a time preparing for all this.... Cleaned up empty egg shells for the kids to paint.... Made Orange Cookies and went about icing them with royal icing... This was the first time I was dealing with royal icing... Was totally paranoid about how it will work out.... Guess that's what baking is about for me... pushing my limits..... Icing was [and is] back-breaking work for me... need to work very fast with it else due to the horrid temperature n humidity levels here, icing tends to grow a mind of it's own... [which definitely doesn't wanna do what I need it to do....]
This time I thought, instead of just yummy stuff to eat, the kids should get to do some fun activities too... Each of the kids got their own write up on, What is Easter? Why is it celebrated, Why the Bunny and Eggs on Easter? etc which their mummies read out to them Read up here...

They also got an activity sheet with Step-by-Step instructions for making this bunny basket... Find them here....
A print out of an Egg drawing, which they could colour along with the empty eggshells.

Some more colouring fun....

That's Simran and Armaan, my next door neighbours... very sweet kids.... Simran's still working on her basket her mummy informs me...

This post is off to Easter Cake Bake Event, being hosted by Julia at 'A Slice of Cherry Pie ... I guess my 'Zesty Orange Chocolate Brownies' would qualify as cake for this event... :-)

Pat a cake pat a cake baker’s man

Bake me a cake as fast as you can

The kids enjoyed the Easter Fun with cookies, colouring and craft work n I ENJOYED making these while the parents enjoyed my Zesty Orange Chocolate Brownies....

Mr.Nibbles loved the Zesty Orange Chocolate Brownies