Reason of excitement? Cakes! Only this time in a different way
As a kid I was always excited about grabbing a bigger piece of cake if it was a friend’s birthday, and hopeful about having left over cake for next day if it was my or my brother’s birthday. Now so many years later I am still excited about cakes, but now it is about baking them!
I remember my brother telling my Mom once, “mummy, ye jab naukari karegi to apna saara paisa bakery mein kharch kar degi…”
Oh what a prophecy my brother made! :)
Since about year and a half now, after my mom got me this microwave oven with ‘Convection’, I am going crazy by the day for baking! I am just so excited when I have to try something new someday!
I took full advantage of my birthday this time, when I made sure that they don’t get cake from outside so that my first cake with icing gets due attention :D
I read and brainstormed to decide on the two cakes I wanted to bake. One day before my birthday, I told Prabudh (my behtar half) about my bakery wish list, thinking he would get me all that:
1) Kitchen Weighing Scale
2) Measuring Cups
3) Baking Tin with removable Base
4) Bigger cake tins
5) And a stock of bakery ingredients :)
Well, Perhaps i was too late. He got me t-shirts and Perfume :). Anyway, I gifted some of the things in my wish list to myself :)
Plan was to make two cakes; One for my friends at office and another for an evening with my family. Since I have been baking cakes for more than a year now, this time what excited me more was, the idea of icing both the cakes. I planned to make a Vanila cake with Cocoa butter icing for office and Fresh Cream Cake for the evening.
I started my day with jam packed thoughts on the cakes I was about to make. Went on to finish the Chocolate cake for office first…. Ok ok may not look like a cake from a sophisticated bakery but this was the first time I did it…So I was on top of the world anyway!!
Next was a bigger challenge; A Fresh cream cake had been on my mind since I first had a fresh cream pineapple cake at my school friends’ birthday party. That was like yeeears ago :). This was a sure shot challenge because I had tried to whip cream twice earlier in smaller quantity and had been disappointed :(. This time I had to whip the full One litre pack of Amul to ice a cake…
Below is what I could make!
It may not have been perfect and professional but I must confess, I was elated, flying, In a bliss, enchanted, mesmerized, and of course ‘Happy!’ on my Birth-day! Thank you once again everyone…you really must have wished from your heart :)
Overall I had cut three cakes, You have heard enough about two of them! :D
Third one was from my friends at office…yummy and beautiful! These days my first thought when I look at a cake is, not about eating it; it is, “I wish I could make such a cake!”
Wish me luck people…your wishes come true. Perhaps some day I will bake all those lovely things on my own.
My birthday is not over yet, I got a Grill Sandwich maker from my Bhaiya-Bhabhi…and I must tell you that it was among the top few items on my non-baking Wish list! I already made my first Grill Sandwich this morning :)
I don't know when did become so fond of Cooking/Baking. It gives me this huge 'Creative' Satisfaction. That said, I really had a wonderful day! Thank you!
