Thursday 27 October 2011

Doll Cake to celebrate My First Blog Anniwersary & the Arrival of a New Member to our Family



Celebration Time Again!! It has been a year of wonderful food blogging, posting new recipes, taking part in events, making new friends.....  I've come up a long way. It wouldn't be possible without you readers who leave wonderful comments which keeps me going  Thanks a lot for that!!!

Time passes extremely fast and it feels like I just started blogging yesterday . I can't imagine that it has been a year posting my very first recipe and now done with my100th recipe on the first day of this month..

I was confused while choosing the recipe to be posted during such an occassion . There were 2 cake posts pending and then I chose this Doll Cake which I've baked  for my daughter's birthday as this cause for another celebration too... to welcome a new cutie pie to our family. She is ma baby who is just 6 days older. Yea & me back to blogging?#$ Actually this post was almost done before my delivery .

Happy Diwali too !!!





Now, about the cake. The sponge is so simple and yummy that you'll go on baking this again and again. I had to bake 3 times the measure to adjust to the length of the doll. Recipe of the sponge adapted from Shabs Cuisine; Buttercream frosting from Martha Stewart.



For the cake:


Ingredients:

Egg 3
Flour 1/2 cup
Sugar 6 Tbsp
Zest of 1/2 an Orange
Vanilla essence 1 tsp

Method:

1.Preheat the oven to 190 degrees Celcius. Grease and line a very deep 6 inch pan or a7 inch pan.

2. In a bowl whisk the eggs sugar and orange zest on high speed for about 10 minutes until thick and pale and leaves a thick trail when the beaters are lifted.

3. Fold in the flour with a metal spoon, being careful not to knock out any air. Pour into the prepared tin. Bake for about 35-40 minutes or when a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Turn the cake on the wire rack, peel the parchment paper and leave to cool completely. Once the cake is taken out o foven, place the almonds in the pan and bake for about 5-8 minutes until lightly toasted.

For the filling:
 
284 mls tub Double Cream
1/3 cup condensed milk
Grated zest of ½ orange
Few drops of vanilla essence
150g chopped strawberries


To make filling, whip cream along with zest until soft peaks form. Add vanilla essence and condensed milk and whip until stiff. Take out 5-6 tablespoons of this cream mixture and mix it with chopped strawberries, keeping aside the rest of the whipped cream to frost the cake.


Now for Assembling the cake,  take a doll and break the bottom part of it . Or you may wrap the doll with Cling Film if you want to keep the whole doll.  Take the cake, layer it, spread  frosting there between the layers. Once done with the layers, shape the cake if needed according to the doll to be placed. Now frost the cake all over and insert the doll into the cake after done with the frosting. I used buttercream frosting for decoration.



*** Kitchen temperature is a must while using frosting.. It should not be too high. My frosting was melted a bit which you might have noticed in the pictures.


17 comments:

  1. congrats on the blog anniversary and new baby maashallah
    happy birthday to your little one
    beautiful cake

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  2. congrats dear..sweet kisses to ur angel....doll cake looks cute nd lovely..

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  3. conrats on ur blog anniversary and hugs to ur lil one............superb cake hasna

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  4. Congratulations and wishing you lots of happiness.Happy Diwali too.

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  5. congrats for blog anneversaryand for neaw comer may god bless her
    cake is very cute

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  6. congrats for blog anneversaryand for neaw comer may god bless her
    cake is very cute

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  7. Such a lovely cake to celebrate the lovely events:-) Congrats!

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  8. congrats for both the good news dear.love the cake,superb piping.colourful too.

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  9. Hugs to ur lil one, congrats Hasna..

    Congrats on ur blog baby anniversary, doll cake looks super wonderful..

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  10. Congrats on your milestone dear and also for the new family member.....This cake looks wonderful...

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  11. Woooooooow!!Loved the dollie cake.....nannaayi cheythittundu...loved teh frills in front and the work has its perfection!.....So u hit 200 and 1 year of blogging....Quite fast alle??

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  12. wow...First tme on ur page. Loved ur doll cake & other recipes. Perfect!! Congrats on your 1st blogoversary :)

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  13. Cake is very beautiful....
    Blessings to your new baby!!
    Thanks for linking with Decorating Challenge-Buttercream Icing

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  14. Hi, your doll cake looks awesome. But please link back to my event Jingle All The Way and re-post it in dec 2011 to be eligible for the roundup

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  15. Wow this looks amazing..and congrats on completing a year & baby..that's lot of celebration indeed..would have loved to see the inside layers as well

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  16. Well done to you, hope more achievement to you. If you are actually conscious about your health and want to keep yourself fit and healthy than keep in mind that good health absolutely begins from a healthy mouth.

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Thursday 27 October 2011

Doll Cake to celebrate My First Blog Anniwersary & the Arrival of a New Member to our Family



Celebration Time Again!! It has been a year of wonderful food blogging, posting new recipes, taking part in events, making new friends.....  I've come up a long way. It wouldn't be possible without you readers who leave wonderful comments which keeps me going  Thanks a lot for that!!!

Time passes extremely fast and it feels like I just started blogging yesterday . I can't imagine that it has been a year posting my very first recipe and now done with my100th recipe on the first day of this month..

I was confused while choosing the recipe to be posted during such an occassion . There were 2 cake posts pending and then I chose this Doll Cake which I've baked  for my daughter's birthday as this cause for another celebration too... to welcome a new cutie pie to our family. She is ma baby who is just 6 days older. Yea & me back to blogging?#$ Actually this post was almost done before my delivery .

Happy Diwali too !!!





Now, about the cake. The sponge is so simple and yummy that you'll go on baking this again and again. I had to bake 3 times the measure to adjust to the length of the doll. Recipe of the sponge adapted from Shabs Cuisine; Buttercream frosting from Martha Stewart.



For the cake:


Ingredients:

Egg 3
Flour 1/2 cup
Sugar 6 Tbsp
Zest of 1/2 an Orange
Vanilla essence 1 tsp

Method:

1.Preheat the oven to 190 degrees Celcius. Grease and line a very deep 6 inch pan or a7 inch pan.

2. In a bowl whisk the eggs sugar and orange zest on high speed for about 10 minutes until thick and pale and leaves a thick trail when the beaters are lifted.

3. Fold in the flour with a metal spoon, being careful not to knock out any air. Pour into the prepared tin. Bake for about 35-40 minutes or when a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Turn the cake on the wire rack, peel the parchment paper and leave to cool completely. Once the cake is taken out o foven, place the almonds in the pan and bake for about 5-8 minutes until lightly toasted.

For the filling:
 
284 mls tub Double Cream
1/3 cup condensed milk
Grated zest of ½ orange
Few drops of vanilla essence
150g chopped strawberries


To make filling, whip cream along with zest until soft peaks form. Add vanilla essence and condensed milk and whip until stiff. Take out 5-6 tablespoons of this cream mixture and mix it with chopped strawberries, keeping aside the rest of the whipped cream to frost the cake.


Now for Assembling the cake,  take a doll and break the bottom part of it . Or you may wrap the doll with Cling Film if you want to keep the whole doll.  Take the cake, layer it, spread  frosting there between the layers. Once done with the layers, shape the cake if needed according to the doll to be placed. Now frost the cake all over and insert the doll into the cake after done with the frosting. I used buttercream frosting for decoration.



*** Kitchen temperature is a must while using frosting.. It should not be too high. My frosting was melted a bit which you might have noticed in the pictures.


17 comments:

  1. congrats on the blog anniversary and new baby maashallah
    happy birthday to your little one
    beautiful cake

    ReplyDelete
  2. congrats dear..sweet kisses to ur angel....doll cake looks cute nd lovely..

    ReplyDelete
  3. conrats on ur blog anniversary and hugs to ur lil one............superb cake hasna

    ReplyDelete
  4. Congratulations and wishing you lots of happiness.Happy Diwali too.

    ReplyDelete
  5. congrats for blog anneversaryand for neaw comer may god bless her
    cake is very cute

    ReplyDelete
  6. congrats for blog anneversaryand for neaw comer may god bless her
    cake is very cute

    ReplyDelete
  7. Such a lovely cake to celebrate the lovely events:-) Congrats!

    ReplyDelete
  8. congrats for both the good news dear.love the cake,superb piping.colourful too.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Hugs to ur lil one, congrats Hasna..

    Congrats on ur blog baby anniversary, doll cake looks super wonderful..

    ReplyDelete
  10. Congrats on your milestone dear and also for the new family member.....This cake looks wonderful...

    ReplyDelete
  11. Woooooooow!!Loved the dollie cake.....nannaayi cheythittundu...loved teh frills in front and the work has its perfection!.....So u hit 200 and 1 year of blogging....Quite fast alle??

    ReplyDelete
  12. wow...First tme on ur page. Loved ur doll cake & other recipes. Perfect!! Congrats on your 1st blogoversary :)

    ReplyDelete
  13. Cake is very beautiful....
    Blessings to your new baby!!
    Thanks for linking with Decorating Challenge-Buttercream Icing

    ReplyDelete
  14. Hi, your doll cake looks awesome. But please link back to my event Jingle All The Way and re-post it in dec 2011 to be eligible for the roundup

    ReplyDelete
  15. Wow this looks amazing..and congrats on completing a year & baby..that's lot of celebration indeed..would have loved to see the inside layers as well

    ReplyDelete
  16. Well done to you, hope more achievement to you. If you are actually conscious about your health and want to keep yourself fit and healthy than keep in mind that good health absolutely begins from a healthy mouth.

    ReplyDelete