Monday, May 11, 2009

Baking and Decorating Cakes

I think I am a true Gemini, leading two lives. In another life, when I was working on my Engg. degree, I was baking cakes and desserts on the side. It started off as making cakes for family members and then I started getting orders for specialized cakes. I even started teaching how to bake cakes from my home in India. That was my creative outlet then and now it is pottery. Someday I will post pictures of the cakes I made then.

My wife, Reema has been pestering me to bake a fancy cake since we got married. I still do bake occasionally but never spent the time decorating as I used to. On our 5th year Anniversary she insisted on a 5 tier cake and I had to decline. That was 2 years back and the number of expected tiers was only increasing with every year. This year however she turned 30 and I wanted to make her a 3 tier cake (more managable).
So I did it all from scratch. The cake was a vanilla butter cake with chocolate chips. The cakes were leveled and have a chocolate fudge layered icing. Then covered with butter cream icing for the fondant.
The fondant was made from scratch as well and I had forgotten what a mess it can be. Fun none the less.
The invidual cakes were covered, stacked, and decorated further. The roses on top took a lot more time than I expected (2.5 hours for 4 roses).

The cake took a little less than 30 hours... a lot longer than it would have taken me some years back. At the end of it, we had a fun time and it was a pleasure making that cake. Happy Birthday!

4 comments:

lionel1 said...

Your blog on "Baking and Decorating Cakes" was a very interesting post. Thank you for taking the time to share it with us,and for showing all those beautiful photos, your work is really appreciated.

I run a related blog about pottery and was recently quoted saying…

If you are looking for a great creative outlet or a new hobby that can bring in a little spare change while you are at it, you may want to consider learning to make your own pottery.

Feel free to check out the full blog post on my related blog
over at…

http://www.lionel1.com/Goblog/pottery/business-or-pleasure/

Peace,
Lionel.

Joyce said...

Absolutely gorgeous cake! It sounds like it tasted fabulous too :)

w said...

oh wow. that's beautiful. i want a cake. for my (any ocassion).

my hubby is sooo going to read this post tonight.

and then. he'll probably go out and buy one.

Heather said...

Beautiful! And truly a labor of love... 2.5 hours for the 4 flowers! Wow.

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