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One of my friend blessed with baby boy so to celebrate that i made this cake. This was chocolate cake with butter cream frosting. I was short of time so used DH moist chocolate cake mix for baking cake. Sometimes its big time saving to use cake mix. Since it is for baby boy all the decorations were in blue colour. I used star tip 16 for the alphabets and tip 3 for making baby stuff like bottle, rattle on the side of the cake. Shoes were made out of butter cream only. I found the instructions for baby shoes on Wilton website. Everyone enjoyed the cake.

Eggless Chocolate Cake

I made this cake for one of my friends birthday. I made this eggless cake so that my vegetarian friends can enjoy this too.

Ingredients

• 1½ cups Flour 
• 1 cup Sugar 
• 3 tbsp. Cocoa powder 
• ¾ tsp. Baking powder 
• ¾ tsp. Baking soda 
• 1 cup Water 
• 1 tbsp. Vinegar 
• 1 tsp. Vanilla essence 
• ¼ cup Vegetable oil 
• ½ tsp. Salt 

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease and flour the 9'' round pan.
Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, soda & salt together. Add the water, oil, vinegar & vanilla essence to the flour mixture. Beat until smooth and pour the batter into a greased & floured tin.
Bake at 350F  in a pre-heated oven for 30 mins or the toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Let it cool in a pan for 10 mins and then transfer it on a cooling grid and allow it to cool down completely before frosting.
Here i used a Wilton butter cream frosting tinted green. The cake was yummy. Everyone enjoyed it.

Eggless Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 1½ cups Flour 
• 1 cup Sugar 
• 3 tbsp. Cocoa powder 
• ¾ tsp. Baking powder 
• ¾ tsp. Baking soda 
• 1 cup Water 
• 1 tbsp. Vinegar 
• 1 tsp. Vanilla essence 
• ¼ cup Vegetable oil 
• ½ tsp. Salt 

Method
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease and flour the 9'' round pan.
Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, soda & salt together. Add the water, oil, vinegar & vanilla essence to the flour mixture. Beat until smooth and pour the batter into a greased & floured tin.
Bake at 350F  in a pre-heated oven for 30 mins or the toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Let it

Princess castle cake

I made this cake for my daughters first birthday. It was a classic white cake with buttercream filling and covered with marshmallow fondant. for bottom two layers i used 10''and 9'' hexagoanl cake pan and 4'' circle pan for the top layer. For pillers and window i used romantic castle cake set from wilton. I covered the pillers with the fondant. I dont have brick impression mat so i used scale and knife to make the impressions. This was my first attempt of tired cake but managed very well. Everyone loved it.

Chocolate cupcakes

I made these cupcakes for our one day trip. They turned out so good soft and very moist. My daughter loved them alot. So here's the recipe. This recipe makes around 16 to 18 cupcakes depending on the size of cupcake pan.

Ingredients

• 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a muffin pan with paper or foil liners. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa and salt. Set aside.

In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition, then stir in the vanilla. Add the flour mixture alternately with the milk; beat well. Fill the muffin cups 3/4 full.

Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Frost with your favorite frosting when cool.I used Wilton butter cream frosting. And decorated with gum paste and royal icing flowers from the decorating class.

Wilton buttercream icing

A great icing that I used in Wilton Cake Decorating Class. Would produce amazing results every time. Thinning is done easily by adding water. This recipe makes about 2 and 1/2  cups of icing.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup solid vegetable shortening
• 1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract or any flavor
• 4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (approximately 1 lb.)
• 7-8 teaspoons milk or water or coffee creamer
• 1 tablespoon meringue powder (optional)
• pinch of salt (optional)

In large bowl, cream shortening, flavoring and water with electric mixer. Add meringue powder and gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry. Continue to beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Keep bowl covered with a damp cloth until ready to use.

For best results, keep icing bowl in refrigerator when not in use. Refrigerated in an airtight container, this icing can be stored 2 weeks. Rewhip before using.

This recipe makes "stiff" consistency. To make "medium" add one teaspoon of milk or water for each cup of icing or 2 and 1/2 teaspoon for the full recipe. To make "thin" icing (perfect consistency for decorating a cake with the basic coating) add two teaspoons of milk or water. For full recipe add 5 teaspoons of water or milk. 

If you want pure white icing, which is the perfect base to tint, use the white Crisco shortening and any clear vanilla extract (Wilton makes a great one). Using any others will give a faint creamy color that may affect the shade you try and tint with.

Meringue powder is an egg white substitute in baking so if u have egg allergies or don't eat egg should avoid it.Using water will give you a stable product that needs no refrigeration and the icing will keep indefinitely in the fridge if you keep it in a covered container. If it dries out in the fridge you can always just add a bit of water to bring it back to the consistency you need. If you over thin at any time, just add more icing sugar to thicken. Very versatile product! I loves it...!

Wilton cake decorating course cakes

After making my first cake i wanted to do the cake for my daughter's first birthday so i joined Wilton cake decorating course at Hobby lobby store. All he courses i did were amazing i learned so many new things u can do with icing, fondant and gum paste. 

This was the final cake for buttercream cake decoration course. I used a chocolate cake layer between two vanilla cake cake layers filled with raspberry preserve and covered with buttercream frosting. This time also i used store bought cake mix for baking cake.The recepi for frosting tought in the class.

                                         

It was a carrot cake covered in a fondant. all the elements were made out of fondant and gum paste mix. I really liked the fondant and gum paste they are just like a play dough u can do anything.

My very first decorated cake....

I made this cake for my wedding anniversary. First time i was going to bake a cake so i used store bought cake mix and a box of frosting. While icing the cake i thought oh god its so hard to decorate a cake...!I took complete 2 hrs to decorate this cake. But at the end everyone loved it so it made my day.

My first decorated cake......!!

Wilton Cake decorating course