No compromises with cakes!! Cake should look good and well should taste good too.....
- By Shweta Arora
- Published July 26th, 2010
Shweta Arora
Once I have heard someone telling that cooking is nothing but just the right combination of salt and spices.
But I really disagree!
If it would have been true then why the same dal serve in you platter daily, tastes different everyday?
Why you always miss your mom and say, "Ma ke haath wali baat nahin hai...!"?
Have you ever noticed when you are in a good mood and enjoying while cooking, you tend to make a tastier food rather than when you are in a bad mood...??
I am my mom's daughter a typical mumma's child..:) as everyone says, so my love for cooking and serving food properly are in my genes, transfered to me by my mom!! I started cooking food because of my mother and my brother.
As my mom cooks very well and my brother is fond of eating varieties. And now my son, whenever he goes to visit them in vacations, he enjoys his Mamu's company coz he makes him enjoy in all the way.... movies, parties, malls and top of them.. good food at various joints.
Once my son comes back to home, he insisits 'Ma, I want to have this and that... which I had there...'. and all this makes me to cook and serve him whatever he wants....
When it comes to making a Cake, we want it to be perfect, proportionate, spongy and delicious.But if you sometimes face problems, try these :
If you have A Dry Cake:
Too much baking powder or flour;
Not enough butter;
Kept for long time in the oven.
If your cakes becomes A Heavy Cake:
Not enough baking powder;
Too much flour;
Mixture not creamed enough less
Flour mixed too vigorously, it should be folded slowly;
Oven temperature too slow.
God save us from a A Sunken Cake:
Too much liquid/milk, baking powder or sugar;
Flour not just enough; oven door slammed, not properly closed or cake moved during baking;
Taken out from oven too soon.
No more A Peaked Cake:
Insufficient fat or baking powder;
Excess flour;
Oven temperature too high.
Save me from A Cracked Top Cake:
Oven too hot;
Cake tin small for the cake;
Not enough butter.
Ohhh!! Fruit Sunk to the Bottom in a fresh friut cake:
Fruit not properly dried;
Cake mixture not thick as required;
Fruit added before adding flour.
