Hi Ladies !!!!
Yesterday was my elder son (Moksh's) Bday. He turned 13 and to celebrate the occasion I decided to bake a cake with proper decoration and all. Nothing unusual about baking a cake, as I do it every time, but, making an icing topping and decorating it with the same is something which I tried for the very first time.
Since Thursday is a no non-veg day, I decided to make a egg less Lemon Cake. I picked up this recipe from, Nita Mehta's Eggless Oven Recipes and this is how it turned out.
Front side
Back side
After decoration
Even though the kids and his friends showed appreciation, but I somehow felt that covering the lemon icing with chocolate shavings was a mistake. Because chocolate and lemon does not quite blend together. Instead of chocolate if I would have sprinkled some shavings of lemon rind and replaced the strawberries with sweetened lemon wedges, I think the whole dish would have come together quite beautifully. Well, cooking is experimenting with new things and I think this is how you learn.
Have you ever experienced something like this????????
Do write in. I wud like to hear from you.
Have a nice day !!!!!
Moushumi
yummy cake
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DeleteIt seems as if you know what might have made the cake better in flavour and taste. I guess that is what cooking is all about. Experimenting till you get it right! The kids loved it. So job well done.
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DeleteHi radha !!!
Thanks for reverting & and encouraging me.
luv
Moushumi
Happy 13th birthday to Moksh, and well done on baking his cake yourself. Choosing an eggless lemon cake from Nita Mehta's Eggless Oven Recipes for a Thursday no-non-veg day was thoughtful, and trying icing, topping and decoration for the first time takes real courage. I understand your feeling that the lemon flavour was covered a little by the decoration, but the front, back and after-decoration photos still show a cake made with a lot of love.
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