IHome Delight Cakes

Vegetarian cake collection

2012-05-07T16:34:00.001+08:00

There has been numerous request to make vegetarian cake..There goes my hunt on vegetarian cakes recipe..There has been several sites which gives you a better insight on vegan baking, but ultimately baking an eggless cake sounds more like a nightmare to me...With the science of baking- reaction between the flour, egg, butter & sugar..

I gathered all my guts and went on trying some eggless recipe. There are many recipes that uses different ingredient to stabilize the cake. I came across this website http://chefinyou.com/egg-substitutes-cooking/. There is a table on all the possible substitution for an eggless recipe.

With all the google-ing & youtube-ing, i ventured into my eggless baking for my granny 76 birthday. This recipe uses condensed milk as the replacer for egg. There are many cake recipe out there which calls for condensed milk in their recipe.

So i tried with one recipe which calls for basic condensed milk, flour,& butter. The cake was a basic cake, so i layered and filled them with buttercream icing to create more height & taste. I frosted them with white buttercream icing & and wrote her birthday wishes in Tamil.

The cake was a hit. I have attached some pictures of the cake.. Everyone loved the cake..

From there on, i have started trying out different types of eggless cakes. Chocolate cakes with chocolate ganache, orange cake, and sugee cake..

Comparing the taste of eggless to cake with eggs, there are definetely some differences to expect. But for vegans, this are great treats as there are not many vegetarian cakes that is available out there. I have once tried some eggless cake that taste nothing less than a sponge- no flavour to it.

Eggless baking is a unique experience, i still wonder how the chemistry works without an egg..
I have just attached the recipe that i started off with (**adopted from some website that i cant remember :)

Basic Eggless Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

250 gm plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tin/400gm sweetened condensed milk
100 gm butter melted
175 ml water
2 tsp vanilla extract

Method:

In a mixing bowl, assemble the flour, baking powder and baking soda, mix with a spoon and sieve once to make the mixture uniform. Preheat the oven at about 100 to 120 degrees centigrade. Put in the condensed milk, melted butter, vanilla essence and water into the mixing bowl containing the dry ingredients. Beat with an electric hand mixer, whisk or spoon until the mixture comes together and there are no lumps. This shouldn’t take more than a minute with an electric hand mixer/beater. Be careful not to over beat the mixture as this could result into a hard cake. Pour the batter into the cake tin and bake for an hour at 150 degree centigrade. The cake is done when a knife or cake tester comes out clean when inserted in the centre of the cake.

IHome Delight Cakes: Wilton Course 1

2012-05-07T16:08:00.001+08:00

IHome Delight Cakes: Wilton Course 1

Wilton Course 1

2012-05-07T16:07:00.001+08:00

After couple of years of baking & cake decorating, i was thinking of taking this profession seriously.
Being an engineer gives me job satisfaction & a steady flow of income, BUT nothing beats the joy of working from home at your own pace, doing your passion & creating beautiful creation of arts on a canvas called cake.

Well finally after much thoughts, i enrolled myself on the Wilton Basic Decorating Course. At least, by doing this, i can polish further my decorating skills & whats more important is the certification from the renowned Cake Decorators.

6 May 2012, 10.30 am to 12 noon was my first class. Class lesson were done by Mdm Ambika Menon. So what all the participant got was Lesson 1 Guide Book and a complete set of Lesson 1 tools (Wilton tips, bags, templates & etc)

Lesson 1: Is all about Introducing Wiltons Buttercream recipe. Adjusting the buttercream to the required consistency. I have used Wiltons buttercream before i've joined the class, but its okay to go through it officially for once.

Later during the day, we mixed all the colors and started piping stars on some biscuits. It was fun working with Wiltons colour gel. I have used other brands, but Wilton gives the best shades of all the colors, as you can see above their pretty colours formation.

Homework for lesson 1: All of us are required to bake an 8 inch cake, any flavour of your own choice & ice the cake with buttercream & bring the cake for more decors during the class session...

Sounds awesome, cant wait for next week to come for more..

Facebook @ IHomeDelights

2012-05-07T15:34:00.000+08:00

Baking & decorating cakes have given me so much of joy in the past couple of years..

I have started my own facebook page which is named as IHomeDelights..

All my creation has been uploaded into the page for better viewing.

Chocolate variety..

2010-11-15T00:09:00.002+08:00

Chocolate ..chocolate and chocolate..
Everyone loves chocolate at home..
Decided to do some chocolate baking..This has always been my favourite recipe..
Moist chocolate cake halved and filled with rich chocolate ganache and decorated with chocolate ganache for even richer taste..

Below is one of the snapshot of the cake done for a young girls birthday party.

The chocolate cake is dense and moist in the inside, for a more richer taste, walnut is added...making it into chocolate walnut cake...

This has been my all time favourite..

Mickeymouse collection..

2010-11-14T23:37:00.001+08:00

Both my nephew are a big fan of mickeymouse.
For the eldest nephew's birthday, i made him mickeymouse cupcakes...
This was butter cupcakes with butter frosting.
He was basically digging onto all the cupcakes..and licking the creams of...children oh children :)

For second one's birthday, i decided to bake him a mickeymouse club house cake.Doing a club house cake has always been something that i wanted to work on, being a mickey mouse fan myself..

This was a 2 -tier cake with butter cake and moist chocolate cake. 2 different flavors to give different flavor to the cake..And it was covered fully with fondant...All the decoration items are edible..

Well it took a lot of time to decorate the cakes, but it was all worth it.. Upon completion, there was a big wow from everyone..

And ultimately the boys loved it..They have been asking for mickey mouse cake every now and than..

Introduction to baking..

2010-11-14T23:36:00.002+08:00

Baking has been my passion for the last couple of years...Only now i decided to bring it to the next level...