Jan 21, 2009

My First Cake

When it comes to cake, I would say " I am a good eater than a baker". I like to eat all kinds of cakes. But when it comes to baking, I am scared to try that part. As Jaishree has mentioned in her blog, cooking regular dishes for more 10 people(in my case) is easy to me than bake a cake. But all of a sudden, my girls wanted to bake cookies. So I got the pre prepared refrigerated cookie dough from grocery store and helped them to bake the cookies. They enjoyed baking cookies and they shared it with their friends in their class. Now they want to bake a cake. Well truly speaking, baking a cake with kids around is really a hard task. First I tried a simple chocolate cake, where my girls wanted to put all the ingredients and I allowed them to do that even though I know that this is not gonna work, I just want to encourage them. They put all the dry and wet ingredients in a bowl and tried hard to mix those and I helped them mix it and popped it in the oven for 40 mts. I came out like a chocolate cookie... Well they were happy and were satisfied with what they did and had a whole bowl of those chocolate cookies and started playing. But I was not satisfied personally, cos I just wanted to bake a cake. Again I browsed most of the websites and got a recipe for simple cake and tried the same day itself and it was really a success. Now I am thinking of joining a short term course in baking cakes... Here goes the recipe.

Ingredients:-
  1. All purpose flour - 2 cups
  2. Egg-3
  3. Sugar - 1 cups (acc to taste)
  4. Butter or Margarine - 1/4 cup
  5. Milk - 1 cup
  6. Baking powder - 3 1/2 tsp
  7. Salt - 1 tsp
  8. Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp

Pre heat oven to 350 degrees F(175 Degrees C). Grease and flour one 9 x 13 inch pan. Mix together the flour, baking powder and salt. set it aside for some time. In the mean time, in a large bowl, cream sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. Add flour mixture alternately with milk, beating just to combine. Finally, stir in vanilla. Pour batter into the pan. Bake at 350 degreesF for 40 to 45 mts. or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Frost and enjoy. As far as frosting is concerned, I used the store bought frosting and sprinkles which I asked my girls to do it. We shared the cake pieces with the kids in their class and they all enjoyed it. I have taken print out of Jaishree's chocolate and Pineapple cake. Hopefully will bake it during the weekend.

12 comments:

Eshwari said...

Good Job. Try to add nuts in it.

sathya said...

The cake looks very good n yummy !
congrats on your first cake....

Jen Kumar said...

Fantastic, Vidhya!! I am yet to attempt this from scratch!! Looks like it came out nicely.

Shama Nagarajan said...

looks delicious...perfect

Dershana said...

It has come out fantastic for a first time, Vidhya :-) Looking very nice!

Jaishree Iyer said...

The cakes looks very yummy and nice vidhya, Thanks for adding my name..My luv to kids:)

Shreya said...

Congrats! Daring baker:-) I am yet to start baking, so I really admire your effort...

Nithya Praveen said...

Great try and good job....looks perfect must have tasted gr8 too.I guess first time to ur blog...looks nice.

Usha said...

Hey Vidhya, congrats on your first cake, it looks delicious...about the brown rice, I always use brown rice since it is healthier :-)

Gita Jaishankar said...

The cake looks good for a first attempt...mine did not turn out too well during the first time. I had to disguise it and used it upo as an apple crumble :)

kamala said...

Thank you for visiting my blog Vidhya..Cake doesnt like ur first one..Loooks so moist

Preety said...

you know i find baking simpler than cooking indian dishes as we just have to measure things and put it all together and bake at certain given temp..yours looks perfect..keep baking its fun:)