25 May 2006

The birthday cake :)

I saw this recipe on Pushpa's blog...and wanted to try this !!
I learnt my lesson ...As an immature cook, I should not have tried baking!!

Few things..illai major things which I missed out
I did not use bread flour, instead used all purpose flour ..donno the difference
The amount of strawberries and flour quantity were not proportionate.
I used less quantity of sugar and it was not so yummy

Instead of coming out like this

Pic courtesy: Pushpa's blog

My cake was like this

I'll not try again atleast in near future !!
P.S. This was a gift to P for his birthday and so made some modifications.
His thoughts were "Enna kodumai ithu , athuvum birthday annaikuuuu"

13 comments:

Menu Today said...

Hi,
Trial and error only we can learn so many things.Donot get upset for this. In future u will do excellent baking. Cheers!!!!

starry said...

I learnt by making mistakes. Its OK
I am sure it tasted good. I just stopped to say hello.

Rajesh &Shankari said...

Tell P that he is lucky that his wife tries...
You will do better next time, Just remember in baking everything has to be precise and to the book....

Mohanraj C Periyasamy said...

Whatever it is, Husbands are the creatures to test all your recipes ;-)

All the best for the future trials and convey my "paavams" to my friend "P" ;-)

Jus kidding. Heard that you cook well :-)

Shanthi said...

hey what happened to coffee and honey ?

i saw pushpa's blog - avanga avlo thelivaa sollirukkaanga !
enaakey tempting-aa irundhadhu try panna !!

u will also come to that level soon :D

Lakshmi said...

Quote of the day......is too good
and about the cake i can't comment because even i can't do it, but for me, it looks nice

Unknown said...

Not to worry bout how the cake turned out. The point is tat u´ve tried. Try it out again another time & u´ll b amazed to c the improvements. Practice makes perfect, dear!!!
The diff between bread flour & plain flour is tat bread flour contains higher amount of glutton than plain flour which prevents the cake from becoming too soggy as the strawberry topping has quite an amount of liquid.
I really hope tat u´ll succeed in ur next attempt. Do let me know when u´ve done it.
Good luck to u.

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Anonymous said...

Params would have surely appreciated the effort.

Has to be me said...

Better luck next time. Bakin is surely not so easy! I guess it comes with more practice.
Happy bday 2 P.

Loga said...

Menutoday
Thanks for encouraging...will try again

Starrynights
Thanks for stopping by...will visit urs :)

chithi,
yup that was what i boasted to him..should have followed the instructions exactly!!!

Mohan,
neengalum antha categoryaaaa???


shanthi,
i have not tried yet ...yup that was so tempting thats why i tried it..will try again soon but this time with correct ingredients

lakshmi
thanks for stopping by!!..If it was gud, I would have been more happy,but anyhow will try again :)

pushpa
now i know the difference, will try again with right ingredients..ur recipes are tempting for me to try it out!!

bharadwaj
he appreciated..no other go ;-)

hastobeme,
thankoo..ya will try out again!!

Mohanraj C Periyasamy said...

You asked "Naanum antha category a?" - No, my wife is a very good cook.. How can I put myself into that category?
.....
he he (my wife also visits your site regularly)

Loga said...

appa prachanai illai...enjoii pannunga