Diwali

Diwali is called the festival of lights and one of the most awaited festival of India so we took a class to improve or knowledge on fondant and this is what we made.

On friends demand ....Mava cake

Mava Cake was something that our friends wanted us to try. Mava is basically used in preparing indian sweets.

Things required are eggs, baking powder,milk powder, sugar powder,margarine, butter, refine flour,super gel, mava and a measuring instrument.

Beat the eggs one by one. If you put both the eggs together the egg will collapse, so its better to beat the eggs one by one till the eggs are light and fluffy.

Add butter, margarine, mava, and sugar powder one by one and beat the mixture for 5 min.

This is how the mixture will look after adding the above ingredients .

In refine flour add milk powder, super gel and baking powder. Super gel is added because if there is any fault in beating the mixture, it would be corrected.

Put all the mixture in an 8" tin and tap the tin. Now the mixture is ready for baking.  Preheat the oven for 10 min at  180 degrees and then put the tin for baking.

Your cake is ready. 

  Mava cake is best to have it along your tea. 

Mava Cake:

Margarine: 75gm

Butter: 25gm

Refine flour:100g

sugar powder: 100g

milk powder: 30g

Eggs: 2

Baking powder: 1/2 tsp

Gel: 5gm

Mawa: 25gm:

Baking Temperature : 190 degrees

time:45 min.

Print cake

Baking before for us was just trying to experiment desserts once a month. Giving two hours of our day has made us realised how much we love baking!!!
  Print cake is basically a technique which is taught in the second level of our course. Not practising baking an a full time basises made us lack behing other student. So in order to get the print cake write we took up a challenge of making a cake for one of our good friend on her birthday.
 Just a month before her birthday started practising and making different types of prints. Finally on 2nd September i took full 4 hours in making the cake. We know 4hours is too much , but for a beginner we were happy with the results.  

Choco Desire Mousse Cake

Since years we been trying different recipes for making the perfect mousse cake, but something or the other went wrong while preparing the mousse. So we decided to do a short course in our bakery it self, which thought us the perfect sure short recipes for mousse cake, cheese cake, breads etc . This course really helped us.
Our first try at home was the Choco desire mousse cake.
                                                                 
                                

Things required 1) Blender, 2) Whipping cream, 3) Dark compound chocolate. 4) Measuring utensil. 5)2 eggs. 6) Glass of water. 7)Gelatine , 8) Coffee 9) Removable tin 

Break the eggs yolks in a bowl 

Beat it eggs yolks  until little light and fluffy

In a bowl take whipping cream and beat it with a blender until peaks are formed

Mix all the ingredients well and fold the mixture 

Pour the mixture in the removable container  and keep refrigerate it for 4 hours, we prefer to refrigerate it overnight.

This is the end result. Remove it for the tin and decorate it the way you want.

Recipe

Egg yolk: 2 no.
Coffee: 1 tsp
Water: 100 ml
Choco compound: 200g
Cream: 120g
Gelatin: 10g.
To make eggless mouse you can use 100g Custard powder, 100ml milk and sugar

                                                              

Julia Child

Julia Child is our inspiration, she has bought a huge change in the field of cooking.
Her Quotes on life has surely motivated us.

Julia Child Quotes on life

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet

 Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music>

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

 Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and -- toujours bon appetite!

 If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done

Progress Report

Since the past 6months we have been juggling between our jobs and our training in the Bakery. Its been a bit hectic, but we love it . One thing about Baking we have learnt is that, it is not a very difficult profession, all it needs is loads and loads of practice and your creativity. 

The saying "Practice makes a man perfect" fits properly in this profession. So though we are still at the beginners level we decided to upload pictures of baking items showing our progress.

Black forest cake 

Simple vanilla cupcakes 

Oats biscuits

Mango cake

Kit kat cake

Kit Kat Cake

Oreo cake 

Chocolate mousse

Rose cake 

Strawberry crush Cake 

First try on icing on biscuits 

Ferro Rocher cupcakes

Dutch truffle Cupcake

First try on fondant and was fun !!! 

Cupcakes with Strawberry, dutch truffle and orange butter cream icing.

Blueberry Cupcakes

Chocochip cupcakes.

Cupcakes ready to be delivered. 

First print cake

Cupcakes with orange buttercream filling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Choco Slurrp !!

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." - Charles M. Schulz.
Let it be any occasion , any happy or sad moment in our life chocolates have always been a part of it.

As being wannabe bakers in this part of the blog we will take basic homemade chocolate recipes every week and post it.This will help us to enhance our chocolate making skills and would love to share our experience in making them.

Cake therapy

We humans live in a very competitive and unpredictable world called life. It is a world where only the toughest survive. We all face constant a pressure of fighting the life battle and proving our self to be different than others. 
In order to deal with this pressure we humans try different things,like Men mostly get into smoking or drinking, which makes them powerful for sometime and helps them to divert their mind. Women go for retail therapy,eat a lot of fatty stuff go to the parlour and make themselves feel special.

In the same way for us Baking or seeing a beautiful cake give's the temporary relief. We don't have a sweet tooth but spending hours on baking a cake relaxes my mind and helps me to give a positive direction to my problems.

CAKEOLOGY

Their are two kinds of people , first the one's who are absolutely sure of what they want to do with their life and Second the ones who are forever confused. The second type find everything interesting in life which leads to  a constant change in their career path. We belong to the Second category, found everything fascinating in life but still in search of our true calling. The only surety we have is to do something different and unique in life. 
Cakes are something that would bring both the above kinds.of people together.  How many of us actually get confused when we enter a restaurant or a bakery shop?. There is a set idea or demand in our mind. When we enter a restaurant or bakery shop we know from before what we want to eat. We know that for our birthday or friends birthday we want a Chocolate cake or a Pineapple cake, the bakery just helps us to make the cake more presentable and innovate our thoughts. But the confusion of how we want the cake to be is less.
 Comparing life with Cakes is little weird but just imagine if don't complicate our life so much and make it as simple and beautiful as Cakes or pastries and make our thoughts straight to the point how simple things would get.