Feeling Festive But Lazy? Trust These Home Chefs For A Special Xmas Meal

There are two things that act as a blanket and provide a sense of comfort during the festive season. One, the fact that everybody is joyful and two, mulled wine. While the former is a slave to conditions, the latter isn’t. There’s a hole-in-the-wall bakery in Bandra called Mav's Cakes & Bakes that does it right. You can order a bottle of their mulled wine at INR 1,000 for 1 litre.

P.S: They’re also making mulled wine jellies for you to pop at INR 1600 per kg.

Katy’s Kitchen, run by Parsi Chef Katy Dalal has come out with their Christmas festive menu that includes a full Christmas meal. Though their regular Christmas pudding is being missed this year, the menu boasts of baked fish Florentine {INR 250}, stuffed roast chicken with buttered vegetables {INR 300}, Pork vindaloo {INR 300}, Irish mutton stew served with parsley buttered rice {INR 400}, with their special laganu nu custard {INR 100}.

You can either order a full meal, or go in for the a la carte option. The delivery is from Churchgate to Wadala, however orders below INR 5,000 will have an extra delivery charge. The last date to place the orders is 23 December, 8pm.

To place your orders, call on 9820136511.

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It’s not Christmas if you haven’t had freshly home-baked gingerbread. Coming to your rescue, we spoke to Shradha Aggarwal of Dessert Cart who will bake these babies up for you.

This Christmas, Shradha has introduced hampers which include carrot cake, gingerbread, and one cookie jar all wrapped up in festive wrapping for INR 1550. However, if you just want the gingerbread men, that can be done too. The batter contains eggs, sugar and a dash of nutmeg to make it all fluffy and pretty. Last date to place the order is 17 and 18 December.

#LBBTip: Shradha is also making sugar cookies in whatever flavour and shape you want, so just call up and ask for it.

Price: Gingerbread box for INR 750 {6 pieces}

Place an order by calling on 099303 98884.

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Marissa Fernandez is Mumbai-born and brought up home-baker who’s been baking professionally for almost three years now at her Rissa Bakes. This Christmas she has decided to go all out with a Christmas special menu that offers rum balls, Xmas themed cupcakes and Christmas loaves, brownies and chocolate balls.  All of these confectioneries are made to order from fresh ingredients. That’s why Marissa says she only accepts orders three days in prior. Her Christmas loafs are a popular selling that come in flavours of choco almond, choco rum, choco plum (INR 300 onward for 300 grams).  T

he exciting Xmas themed cookies are our favourite though, as they come in the shapes of Xmas tree, reindeer and even our beloved Santa.

Call On: 9920364495 

Mani Vinaik, who runs Through The Food Door is super enthusiastic about her classic rum cake that she is offering this Christmas. A baker of almost two years, Mani tells us she soaks her raisins in rum and wine for about two months to get the perfect taste out of them. Not just raisins, she also uses cranberry, apricots, cherries and blueberries in her plum cakes, a recipe she created herself.

However, if you are not up for the cake, you can also opt for her Christmas loaf. These are smaller and weight about 350-450 grams. So far she has already been receiving an overwhelming number of orders, but she tells us since she has an abundance of raisins, she will be taking the orders till 15 January {something to celebrate your New Year’s with as well}. It’s advised to place an order at least two-three days in advance and the cakes can be delivered or picked up.

Price: INR 1400 for a cake of one kg, loaf of 350 grams for INR 300 and upwards.

To place an order, call her on 9987090418 or drop an email at manisaigalvinaik@hotmail.com

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