CAKE GIVE AWAY........

I wanted to bake cakes for my friends. Since I didnt have time to buy small cake boards and cake boxes. The place which I know which sells these items in Chennai is in Parris which is sooooo far away. If this was K.L I would have just drove 10min and I could buy anything and everything under one roof. Anyway coming to the point.........so I wanted to bake small cakes for my friends....

I decided to use Aluminin containers which are easily available here (normally to pack food stuff) to bake the cake and then I could just cover it. So i would not need a cake board and a cake box.

I used 4 aluminium containers to bake 4 chocolate cakes. Then covered the cakes with Chocolate Fudge Frosting. Then I used some ready made flowers and coloured gems to decorte the cakes.

This is how they turned out


This is a Valentine's Day Cake for my best friend Shruthi. We have been friends from 7th standard........and from schools days we always used to celebrate V Day together........





This Cake was for my College Friend Anu's Son - Aneesh. He is 3 years old and is adorable. He loved the cake and the gems on it.

Aneesh enjoying his share of the cake............
After that we became very good friends.......
This cake was for my College Friend Harini who just delivered a Baby Boy on 1st Feb.

The baby was soooooooo cute ............so small ........reminded me of Sanjukta when she was that small and I held her in my arms for the first time......it was like yesterday.....now she is 1 1/2 yrs old ............wow time does fly ........

This is Anirud ( I hope the spelling right)


This is Harini and Anirud.........
You must be wondering who the 4th cake was for ...........Actually no one .......I just baked one extra...........My dad ended up eating most of it.....He He Heee.......He loves cakes.........


HAVE A SWEET DAY............

GRANDFATHER'S 92ND BDAY

My grandfather's (Thatha's) Birthday was on 10th Feb. Since I was in Chennai I decided to bake a cake for him. Since I am here in Chennai , i dont have any of my fancy icing tips, fondant dough and all my other favorite stuff to make a fancy cake. So it was left to me to come up a simple yet pretty design for a cake using the stuff I had.

So I did a Rich Moist Chocolate Cake with a Chocolate Fudge Frosting. The sides were decorated with chocolate rice and the bottom of the cake had yellow and orange gems. I had bought some ready made royal icing flowers which i used to decorate the edge of the cake. I wrote the message with butter cream frosting.

This is how the cake turned out .....

Simple and Sweet...............

My grandfather was very happy to see the cake. This was the first time in 92 years that he was cutting a cake for his birthday.


My grandfather .............
The whole family ..............4 generations under the same roof ..........My grandfather, My Dad , Me and My Baby Sanjukta............



Some happy moments...........

HAPPY BIRTHDAY THATHA...........WE ALL LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!

INDIAN SWEETS - GULAB JAMUN

Hi all......since I am in my mom's place enjoying a nice long vacation I thought it would be fun to add an blog of a Indian Sweet Dish. This dish is called Gulab Jamun.

For this I used a Gulab Jamun Mix which is easily found in most of the Indian shops in Brickfeilds, K.L for example in Modern Stores or Seetaram.

This is the picture of the Brand I used. BAMBIND Instant Gubal Jamun Mix.

First measure the quantity of flour in the packet. I got two stainless tumblers full. So for every cup of flour you need to add 1/4 cup of water.

Two tumblers of flour..........


1/2 cup water for 2 tumblers of flour........

Slowly add the water little at a time and combine with clean fingers. The dough should start to come together. Dont mix too much or else you will get hard gulab jamuns.

Roll the dough into small balls. For one packet I got around 40 balls.



SUGAR SYRUP: Next in a large Pan take 700gms of sugar and 700ml of water and heat it till it boils. The packet askes to use 800gms of sugar for 800ml of water. My mom felt 800gms was too sweet and too much of the syrup.

Now deep fry the balls till golden brown. After frying put the balls into the hot sugar syrup. If the sugar syrup is not hot the balls will not soak well.


This is how it will look like .........
Yummy looking ..............

Serve in a glass bowl with little of the sugar syrup..........

RAINBOW BUTTER CAKE & MARBLE CAKE

This is a fun way to make your ordinary butter cake into something colourful and exciting.

Take any of your favorite Butter Cake recipe. Divide the cake batter evenly into four batches. Add 1/2 tsp of liquid food colour to each batter. I used 1 tsp of cocoa for the Brown colour. Colour each Yellow, Green , Orange and Brown. Drop the cake batter 1tabelspoon at a time. First the Yellow batter followed by the green, then orange and brown. Repeat again and again till you finish all the batter. Refer the picure of the procedure below.Bake as usual. This is how it turned outReally a feast for your eyes and mouth....Yummy


You can also make a Marble cake the same way. Just divide the batter into two portions. Add Cocoa powder to one portion. Dump both the batters into the baking tray and just swirl with a knife.

Before Baking............



After Baking ..........