Heart shaped Anniversary cake for Maya and Ragesh

Butter cake

Ingredients:
All purpose flour: 200gm
Butter: 200gm
Eggs: 200gm
Sugar: 200gm
Baking powder: 1 tsp
Vanilla essence: 1 Tsp

Method:
1. Sift Flour and baking powder
2. Beat Butter until soft and and then add sugar and beat again until fluffy
3. Add eggs and beat well
4. Add the dry mix slowly to the wet mix and combine very well
5. Pour the mix to a greased pan and bake in a pre-heated (350F or 180C) oven until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean(35-45 mins)

Eggless, butterless Chocolate cake

I have been trying out lots of eggless cake recipes, but always failed.
Here I am presenting a tried and successful recipe from a friend - Gouri Deo. Thanks Gouri for this wondeful recipe which turned out to be perfect.

Ingredients:
All-purpose flour / maida - 2 cups
Sugar - 3/4 cups (1 cup if you are not using frosting)
Cocoa powder - 1/2 cup (can be even little less)
Vegetable oil - 1/2 cup and a little more
Water - 1 cup
Milk at room temperature - 1/2 cup
Baking powder - 1 tbsp
Vanilla essence / extract - 1 tsp
Salt - a generous pinch

Method:
1. Pre-heat the oven at 350 F (180 C )

2. In a large bowl, sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
3. Add sugar and mix together.
4. Next, add oil, water, milk and vanilla and mix thoroughly, churning the batter in one direction.
5. Pour into greased cake pan and bake in a pre-heated oven for about 45 mins or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. For cup cakes a good 20 min would be fine.

I used 1/2 the quantity of ingredients and made 12 cups
 
Note: No Beating required, No Eggs, No Butter, Simple and tasty

Original Source: http://www.cookingandme.com/2009/01/eggless-butter-less-chocolate-muffins.html

Another Heart shaped Wedding Anniversary cake

A chocolate cake with red vanilla butter icing for a  2nd Wedding Anniversary Cake

Red and White Heart Cake for a Wedding Anniversay

2 Layered - Vanilla Strawberry Cake with Marshmallow Fondant Hearts and  White Vanilla Icing.

Marble Cake - from a sister to her Brother

Marble cake with very little icing and small teddy bears

Translation of the message on cake:  "Birthday wishes to Little Brother from his Little Sister"

Number One Birthday Cake for a little Angel on her First Birthday

The cake toppings - Flowers, Butterflies and Bees

The cake

The final Look - 1

The final Look - 2

Strawberry-choco butter icing sandwich cake

With a dash of Icing sugar and drizzle of chocolate ganache

All packed and ready

Heart Shapped Wedding Anniversary Cake

Heart Shaped Marble Cake with Strawberry and Vanilla icing

Angel Food cake recipe - Fat free

INGREDIENTS

1 1/4 cups (125 grams) sifted cake flour

1 1/2 cups (300 grams) granulated white sugar

1 1/2 cups (360 ml) egg whites, at room temperature (from about 12 large eggs)

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

METHOD

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and place rack in center of oven. Have ready a 10 inch (25 cm) two piece angel food cake (tube) pan. I used a non-stick tea cake pan.

In a large bowl sift together 3/4 cup (150 grams) granulated white sugar and the sifted cake flour.

In your electric mixer, with the whisk attachment, beat the egg whites until foamy. Add the cream of tartar, lemon juice, and salt and continue to beat until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in the remaining 3/4 cup (150 grams) granulated white sugar, a tablespoon at a time, until glossy stiff peaks form. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. Beat in the vanilla extract and almond extract.

Sift the flour mixture over the egg whites (about one quarter of the flour mixture at a time) and gently but quickly fold (do not stir) the flour into the egg whites. You can use a large wire whisk or a large rubber spatula. (It is important not to over fold the batter or it will deflate.)

Pour the batter into the pan and run a metal spatula or knife through the batter to get rid of any air pockets. Smooth the top and bake in the preheated oven for about 40 - 45 minutes. The cake is done when a wooden skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean and the cake springs back when gently pressed. The top of the cake will have cracks. Do not over bake.

Immediately upon removing from the oven invert the pan. Suspend the pan by placing the inner tube on the top of a wine bottle or flat topped glass. Allow the cake to cool for about 1 1/2 hours.

When completely cool, run a metal spatula or knife around the sides of the pan to loosen the cake and then remove the cake from the pan. Next, run a metal spatula or knife along the bottom and center core of the pan and remove. Place on your serving plate. It is best to cut this cake with a serrated knife using a back-and-forth sawing motion. Try not to press down on the cake when cutting as this will squash its soft and spongy texture.

The Cake in the pic was baked with 1/2 the quantity of ingredients specified above.

• Make sure you are not greasing the pan - remember its a fat free cake!!

Recipe Courtesy: http://www.joyofbaking.com/AngelFoodCake.html

Make your own Black food Colour

Here is how you can make your own black food color when you do not get it in stores
across your place

• Get a bottle(same measure) each of RED, GREEN and BLUE food color.
• Put them all into a bigger bottle and stir well(every time you use the black color)
• To achieve a Black and not gray colour, always use cocoa - preferably dark cocoa/chocolate for the icing before you add in the colour.
  

and you have black food colour

Mickey Mouse Cake

For My son Aman on his birthday party with his friends - CELEBRATING 3RD BIRTHDAY

CARS cake for 2 car crazy boys - Aman and Manav on their third birthday

Basic Vanilla Cake recipe -can also be used for cupcakes

I am posting a very easy and basic cake recipe, on request by many friends

Ingredients:

1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
2/3 cup granulated white sugar
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract/essence
1 1/2 cup cake flour(maida or all purpose flour)
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup(60ml) milk

Method:

• Preheat your oven to 180 deg Celsius
• Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat vanilla extract to the mixture at the end( use electric beater for best results)
  
• In a separate bowl, whisk together cake flour, baking powder and salt(best method id to sieve them together 2-3 times so that they are well mixed).
• Alternatively add flour mix and milk in 3 additions to the wet ingredients, beginning and ending with flour mix
• Grease your baking pan with cooking spray( or butter and flour your baking pan) thoroughly and fill the pan with the batter
• Bake for around 40-50 minutes, until a toothpick inserted to the center of the cake comes out clean
• Wait for the cake to cool completely before you take it out of the pan. Cake decoration and icing should be done only after the cake comes to room temperature.
  

The same recipe can also be used for cupcakes. The cooking time would be 15-20 minutes instead. This recipe makes 25 cupcakes.

Chocolate cake variation - add 3-4 teaspoon of cocoa powder to the dry ingredients and mix well before adding to the wet mix

Cakes Available

Cakes available

• Basic round
• Basic round Floral shaped
• Heart Shaped Cake
• Purse Cake
• Butterfly Cake
• Checkers Board Cake
• Character Cakes
• Batman cake
• Elmo Cake
• Cars Cake
• Doll/Barbie Cake
• Hello Kitty Cake
• Mickey/Minnie Mouse Cake
• Mermaid Cake
• Pikachu/Pokemon Cake
• Spider-man Cake
• Thomas Train Cake
• Thumbelina Cake
• Toy Story Cake
• Custom Cakes (As requested during order and availability)
• Fruit shaped Cake
• Pineapple
• Grapes
• Strawberry
• Cupcakes

All the cakes listed above, except Black forest, are available in Vanilla/Chocolate/Strawberry/Pineapple flavours. Order must be placed at least 3 days before the delivery date and are valid only in Gaborone, Botswana.

Checker Board Cake with Whipped Cream Icing and Grated Chocolate

On Amma's Birthday in Botswana

The checker board Slice of cake

Inspired by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjanQLFd4-c

Rose Cake

Nordic Ware rose bundt pan

Finally Managed to get the shape, not very perfect though

Our 4th Wedding Anniversary cake 2 Layer Marble Rose Cake

Purse Cake

For my friend Sini's Birthday, June 4th 2011

Heart Shaped Cake

For Achan's Birthday in Botswana (2011)