
Add cardamom powder and mix it in the dough.The dough should leave the sides of the pan and when touched should not stick to fingers. Bring everything together into dough and remove from the heat. Add a drop of the yellow food color and the cashew meal.The sugar syrup has to come to a one-string consistency and this took about 3-4 mins for me from the stage when the syrup came to a rolling boil. Wait for the sugar to melt and come to a boil and from this point on, keep stirring continuously.Take a non-stick pan, and throw in the sugar and the water.In fact, I will definitely include them in the Diwali hampers I would send out to friends and neighbors this year.Īlong with Cashew Apple Recipe, You may also like the following recipes: And I fell in love with these right away. Made from cashew and sugar, these are actually two-ingredient sweets if you don’t include the aromatics, in this case, the cardamom and the cloves and also the food coloring. They are so cute and delicious and would catch the fancy of kids right away. However, this particular sweet would always be my favorite growing up because of their uncanny similarity with real Shimla apples. I would admit this is not really a Bengali sweet. Back home these apples would adorn the shelves of confectionery stores this time of the year especially for Diwali. This recipe surfaced on my Facebook feed some days back and as tired as I was, the recipe still looked very easy, doable and fun. This particular sweet recipe that I am blogging today is called Cashew Apple Recipe. However, this year was very different and except for a couple of special sweets/desserts, I barely cooked. Under normal circumstances, this is the time of the year when my kitchen would be bustling with the expected festive fervor and the entire homebound nostalgia would make its way into the meals being cooked. The timorous apprehension of executing something so big right from scratch to finish kept me away from all my other regular commitments and chores for all these weeks. I am actually very proud of the fact that I mustered up the courage to take on this responsibility and could deliver to everyone’s expectations and some more. It is the talk of the town now and I am beaming with the pride of accomplishing something, which I never tried before. Having said that I do need to share with you guys that the fashion show was the first of its kind to be held here and was a huge success. And to get everything together some 9000 miles away from home was not exactly a cakewalk. The Bong bridal look is simple, sophisticated and demands a lot of TLC. Without going into the details, let me tell you this that this show was all about taking care of the details. This year, I was made in charge of putting together a Bengali Bridal Fashion Show as part of the cultural extravaganza that we were putting up every evening in this four-day long event.
