When the season of cakes and cookies were here, all i wanted was to try my hands on baking.... always wanted to jump into this long... But back at home, my mom never let me experiment in her kitchen... when i was in Hyderabad or Chennai, i never got a chance, there was no time... and most of my X-mas time, i spent with my friends...
This time around in Delhi i decided to get the oven, and make my own christmas cake.... I went against the option of microwave oven.... the best cakes are made from the old electric oven.... after a hunt around, i finally found one in an old electric shop in East Delhi...
It looked exactly like my mom's oven and i was 100% confident of getting the cakes right....
Now all i wanted was getting a right recipe.... I had modified my mom's fruit and nut cake recipe inspired my some bakers' blogs....
To begin with, more to test my oven, started with chocolate cake... it went fine.. though the sugar level was bit low... I had some cake testers in the form of my colleagues... They gave a thumbs up...
The next step was try out the nut cake... Somewhere the sugar level went up and the whole thing came a bit sticky... but as consolation was the flavour was amazing... so thumbs up on flavour from the cake testers... Some lessons learned... pointed noted in my recipe book....
With full spirit and lots of confidence, on Christmas cake i tried on the nuts cake once again... I had a special star-shaped baking tray for that... The flavour in air was all good, and i wont be knowing the taste of it until christmas....
I packed my bags for Christmas @ Josephine's... Sigh of relief when the cake was cut... the consistency came right, tasted good, though there was still room for improvement.... Some thumbs up on baker me...
Thrilled at an amazing christmas time in Delhi... Enjoyed a special christmas cake from Josephine... Have to try out that recipe some day... for now, back to work, finish some pending work before the year ends...
May be i will start a food blog, on my experiments in kitchen... More to come soon... more recipes will be posted soon....
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