It’s Diwali today. The day when light conquers all. The day when Rama and Sita returned home after having defeated the evil Ravan. A day when you truly feel that you can conquer anything.
This year has had its challenges but I think we have indeed conquered most. We head into the new Hindu year on a new path. I hope it will bring prosperity (we forgot to honour our Goddess Laxmi yesterday on Dhanteras so here’s hoping she’s in a forgiving mood!). More importantly I hope it continues to bring simple pleasures. Simple things that make us all smile. Apple Crumble. Wood fires. The little robin at the allotment. Warm pyjamas from the radiator.
We live a little far from Indian grocers and sweetmarts and were not organised enough to buy our Diwali treats last weekend. We shall therefore save the penda, the chocolate barfi and the chakri for a Sunday feast. Today we shall treat ourselves to these very simple, very easy Saffron Eclairs as an alternative sweet treat.
Happy Diwali!
Saffron Eclairs
Notes
To make them
These are lovely with some chai and equally good with coffee.
What are the simple things that make you smile?
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These sound delicious – such pastry treats are hard to find here, as cakes and tortes are preferred. A simple thing that makes me smile? My breakfast! Coffee, and fruit cut into little pieces and placed on a pretty plate! Have a fun feast at the weekend!
Ah yes. Breakfast on my own in peace and quiet makes me smile too. Doesn’t happen often but when it does it’s soooo nice
Happy Diwali Urvashi! These eclairs look delicious x
Thanks Stuart 🙂 it’s a pretty quiet one. Haven’t heard any fireworks so far
what a beautiful plate! I would never think to put saffron in sweets…how silly of me!
Thank you. When I looked the flavour up in The Flavour Thesaurus it is paired with orange and also pistachio. So an orange cream or pistachio cream would work well in these too. I just loved the whole saffron thing. Perfumed my kitchen. Lovely
so pretty! happy diwali!
Thank you 🙂
Happy Diwali! These look and sound gorgeous.
Thanks!
Oh these look amazing and I would never have though to use saffron on an eclair:-) Happy Divali:-)
Thank you. I was inspired by the creations I saw in Paris where anything and everything goes!
Happy Diwali Urvashi! These are glorious – the perfect meeting of east and west 🙂
Thank you. I love saffron. Since morocco ive stsrted udjng it much more in non indian dishes
These sound beautiful and I love the sound of the saffron liquid. Is it wrong that I really, really want one of these for breakfast right now?! 😀
Thank you. And no. Not wrong at all! It’s Diwali after all
This is such a great flavour to use, saffron eclairs must taste amazing and I would happily enjoy these along with a few Indian sweet treats which I hope you get to enjoy this weekend for Diwali.
It is a great flavour. The drops ate hood because they bakance the bitterness you sometimes get when you use too much saffron
These saffron eclairs look stunning and sound amazing – what a lovely treat!
Thank you. Diwali is all about treats 🙂
Love the appearance of these but can’t imagine in my head how the saffron icing tastes. It’s one of those flavours I seldom think to incorporate in my cooking. I should as mum bought me some good quality saffron from some recent holiday or other!
Ive struggled with it except as a garnish in shrikhand or indian sweets but have used it in tagines etc now too. The spice drops are good too as they help with how much to use you can drop mix and try without thinking poof! Ive just used about £15 worth of strands