Harveen's Baking Affair

Rack your brains as much as you want but chances are extremely slim to none that you will find a connection between chai cupcakes and shark tank or even chai and sharks alone for that matter. The above statement will hold true before reading the blog post of course. Once, you have acquainted yourself with the text that  follows, the mystery will be  solved or in simpler terms , you might see the connection that prompted me to name the title so . You see, I long to keep interesting titles for my blog posts and when this unusual one came along in my brain , I simply couldn't ignore it . The thought that it may pique the reader's interest and this generate more curiosity for the blog post also prompted my naming it such. The mention of a genial beverage based cupcakes with a gritty business reality show is enough to raise eyebrows but here is the story behind it . You see, tomorrow is the last day of school for my 4th grader. But instead of watching  movies or playing game

We are two months and four days past the New Year but still can't help making a reference to it  as  I proudly proclaim this particular blog post to be my first one of 2017. No mean feat considering the fact that  writing baking blog posts has  taken a backseat lately . But, hey another year has  dawned and I for one  intent to fully embrace the positive spirits that New Year brings . Sincerely wishing  that  maybe this year will be different from last year in the fact that  I might surprise you guys with ample quantity of new blog posts though the strict definition of "ample" in this case might be debatable. Whatever number of blog posts I end up writing this year , lets give it a good solid start with this particular one which is for an sticky  upside down orange cake. It is my way of paying culinary homage to the current citrus season. So, grab your cloth grocery bags and make the trip to your nearest food store or farmer's market to stock up

   So, brownies. Haven't done them in a while. Last brownies I remember finding themselves on the blog were the Black Bean Brownies  way back in May of 2015. Now , that is a long time to go without brownies. Seriously !!  Well actually, I didn't even  bake the brownies then.  Last I checked, my mom did.  That's right. I'm not the famous Harveen Roy. I'm her daughter, Yagyesha Roy with  some good old fashioned chocolate brownies.Since they are my first bake, I am going ahead and giving them a fancy name - "Smiley Face Brownies." Why this name, you ask ? The picture should give a clue. Well, there was more text on the surface of the brownies which you will come to know later but the smiley got lucky as it got to be the one which got photographed and thus found itself  on the pages on this blog. Okay, now that we've got that out of the way, let's talk about brownies! When somebody says brownies, what comes into your mind? The All-Ame