It has been a few days, since 19th nov and i dont think i can ever forget the previous night!After a long day at college and hanging out with my friends, i came home and realized i hadnt bought any present for my daddy's 51st birthday!
Confused and clueless about what i wanted to do, i decided to bake a cake for daddy while he and mom were going out. I AM expert at baking cakes... and whoever ate them would say just one thing... "hmmm yummmy"!! In case you're wondering.. i'm talkin about baking the ready made cakes.. you know betty crocker and stuff...>??? so i went on to call my friend and ask his mom to help me with baking a cake from the scratch!
I got the recipe but i was clueless about whether or not i had all the required ingredients for baking this cake...out of all love and affection. i go down to the kitchen and search through all the cupboards looking for the ingredients one by one. i looked through the blue and red capped plastic containers which had different kinds of pulses, white, yellow, ocre etc coloured powder which in a language known i'd call them rawa, besan, flour etc etc. there were empty containers as well, and i knew somehow that one of those empty boxes had to be that of maida.
I was talking to my friend , correction... arguing with my friend who was trying to tell me how to find maida. of course being a home science student has definitely helped me to an extent that i know how to figure out what powder is what. But no the great ego of the opposite sex has to come in somewhere in a conversation. So the conversation went on and i finally figured i was out of Maida and i couldnt bake the cake, i just had to! so i picked up my phone and called for help... the help was my servant maid! a cartoon to beat all cartoon's that are dubbed in hindi on pogo or on cartoon network. Oh well she's another story all together but she was of great help because she told me where the maida was and saved me a lot of trouble looking for it. man!! what phones can do sometimes! it amazes me!!
well to cut a long story short... i baked the cake with loads of guff ups...for instance, i used NUTRILITE instead of WHITE BUTTER!! not to forget i melted the butter for 30 seconds instead of melting it by putting hot water. i used a lot more than 170 gms of butter... so you can think how badly i messed up with the ingriedents! but if u cant wait till i'm done with writing... anyways getting back to the topic, i used less baking powder and veryy little maida and eggs i used just enough... just enough to screw it up even more. ah wait! the eggs!! i broke one in the batter and there were shells in it as well...but thankfully with the help of a knife and fork.. i managed to get them all out! the batter when finally ready was a little to rubbery and after adding a little milk and vanilla essence, it got 10 times worse!! phew that's a story! te best part was, i had loads of fun trying to bake my first cake from the scratch! well the best part was also that dad actually liked the cake and he had said it was the closest the cake had got to eating a butter sandwich! yeah! dad was being really nice and he ate it!!so did mom and my two doggies.
so that's the story of my unfortunate and disastrous adventure of baking a cake!!
Confused and clueless about what i wanted to do, i decided to bake a cake for daddy while he and mom were going out. I AM expert at baking cakes... and whoever ate them would say just one thing... "hmmm yummmy"!! In case you're wondering.. i'm talkin about baking the ready made cakes.. you know betty crocker and stuff...>??? so i went on to call my friend and ask his mom to help me with baking a cake from the scratch!
I got the recipe but i was clueless about whether or not i had all the required ingredients for baking this cake...out of all love and affection. i go down to the kitchen and search through all the cupboards looking for the ingredients one by one. i looked through the blue and red capped plastic containers which had different kinds of pulses, white, yellow, ocre etc coloured powder which in a language known i'd call them rawa, besan, flour etc etc. there were empty containers as well, and i knew somehow that one of those empty boxes had to be that of maida.
I was talking to my friend , correction... arguing with my friend who was trying to tell me how to find maida. of course being a home science student has definitely helped me to an extent that i know how to figure out what powder is what. But no the great ego of the opposite sex has to come in somewhere in a conversation. So the conversation went on and i finally figured i was out of Maida and i couldnt bake the cake, i just had to! so i picked up my phone and called for help... the help was my servant maid! a cartoon to beat all cartoon's that are dubbed in hindi on pogo or on cartoon network. Oh well she's another story all together but she was of great help because she told me where the maida was and saved me a lot of trouble looking for it. man!! what phones can do sometimes! it amazes me!!
well to cut a long story short... i baked the cake with loads of guff ups...for instance, i used NUTRILITE instead of WHITE BUTTER!! not to forget i melted the butter for 30 seconds instead of melting it by putting hot water. i used a lot more than 170 gms of butter... so you can think how badly i messed up with the ingriedents! but if u cant wait till i'm done with writing... anyways getting back to the topic, i used less baking powder and veryy little maida and eggs i used just enough... just enough to screw it up even more. ah wait! the eggs!! i broke one in the batter and there were shells in it as well...but thankfully with the help of a knife and fork.. i managed to get them all out! the batter when finally ready was a little to rubbery and after adding a little milk and vanilla essence, it got 10 times worse!! phew that's a story! te best part was, i had loads of fun trying to bake my first cake from the scratch! well the best part was also that dad actually liked the cake and he had said it was the closest the cake had got to eating a butter sandwich! yeah! dad was being really nice and he ate it!!so did mom and my two doggies.
so that's the story of my unfortunate and disastrous adventure of baking a cake!!
