"All the world's a birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much." George Harrison.
My grand-daughter,
Molly, loves to play Housie –house in her fairly large toy kitchen. She cooks
up muffins, sunny –side up eggs, steak and her favourite peanut butter
sandwiches with lettuce. To be a part of
her world, I bought a cake mould in the shape of a ring and involved her in the
entire process. What fun we both had! The child in me got the upper hand and we
became messy together. She picked up culinary terms which would baffle many of
her friends I’m sure. But the end product was a delight!!
So here we go:
Ingredients
100 grams
sugar
to decorate:
100 grams
flour 1 brick Ice-cream
100 grams butter 1 cup
watermelon balls
4 eggs
1/3 cup cooking chocolate
30 grams
cocoa powder ½ cup cream
1 level tsp.
baking powder
Pinch of
soda-bicarbonate
Pinch of
salt
A few drops
of Vanilla essence
Method
1.Grease an 8”ring-
cake tin. Sieve the flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and soda
bi-carbonate together twice.
2.Beat the
sugar and butter. Add the egg yolks and beat into the butter mixture. Keep it aside.
3.Beat the egg
whites till fluffy. Fold the egg whites
into the sugar-butter mixture till smooth.
4.Fold in the flour
with the rest of the ingredients raising the ladle high to let in air.
5.Stir in the
vanilla essence.
6.Pour into
the greased tin and bake for 30 minutes in a pre-heated oven of 180 degrees.
7.Remove and
let it cool.
Decorations:
1.Melt the
chocolate in a double boiler. Add cream. Stir till smooth and shiny. (Chocolate
ganache)
2.Pour over
cake evenly.
3.Fill the
centre of the ring with ice-cream and melon balls.Sprinkle coloured sugar
balls all around to give the final touch.
4. Serves 6 to
8 people.
Note: I love traveling but I enjoy making desserts too.
Note: I love traveling but I enjoy making desserts too.
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