My Son's Birthday Cake

Yesterday We celebrated my son's B'day.I planned

for a big cake but he doesn't like frosting in the cakes.

A year back I joined Wilton's Cake Decorating classes

with the high aim of completing all the 4 courses.After

finishing every decorated cakes from the class

my hubby and son scraped out all the frosting from

the cakes and ate the remaining.All my dreams were

shattered and I was opted to skip out all the other

courses.

For B'days I make them eat frosted cakes.Instead

of Wilton's buttercream icing this time i made

Dorie Greenspan's butter cream frosting .My hubby likes

this very much.For the basic cake I followed Shilpa

of Aayis recipes Simple Egg Cake which never goes wrong.

Simple Egg Cake

Ingredients

All purpose Flour - 1 1/2 cups

Sugar - 1 1/4 cup

Butter - 1 cup

Eggs - 4

Baking Powder - 1 tsp

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Method

• Sift flour and baking powder together.
• Dust the cake pan with butter and flour.
• Preheat the oven to 350 c.
• Beat butter and sugar in a medium speed for 2 min.
• Add eggs one at a time beating for 1 min after each addition.
• Add the vanilla essence.
• Now fold the flour,baking powder mixture half at a time.
• Pour the batter into the pan and bake for 35 min or until the cake is done.
• Cool the cake in a wire rack for 10 min.

For Butter cream

Ingredients

Egg whites - 4

Sugar - 1 cup

Butter - 3 sticks or 1 1/2 cups

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Method

• Put the sugar and egg whites in a mixer bowl.
• Fit the bowl over a pan of simmering water and whisk constantly.
• Whisk for 3 min or until it feels hot to touch.
• The sugar should be dissolved and mixture will look like shiny cream.
• Remove the bowl from the heat.
• Beat the mixture until it is cool for 5 min.
• Add butter a stick at a time .
• Beat the butter cream on medium high speed for 6 - 10 min.
• Add vanilla essence.

My son likes Batman.So I made Batman template in

fondant .Overall the cake was good in taste though

there are minor defects in the decoration.

And finally Cham of Spice club has awarded

me Good chatter award.Thank You so much Cham.

Now I would like pass on this to Ranji , Happy cook ,

Madhavi , Divya Vikram , Srivalli and Latha Narasimhan and Lakshmi.