MY BAKING RECIPIE

          Whoever said baking was hard, buhu!

          I come from a very industrious family. I have a civil engineer dad who has virtually ventured into almost all other branches of his field, great with electrical works and repairs, creative with steel and wood, and did I mention he is a fantastic cook? On the other hand, is my mom ; a Nurse who bakes, a great event manager and a terrific cook. Then again, there are my siblings; my brother and my sister. My brother, a diplomat turned model, slash event planner, slash baker, slash crowd puller (if that counts as anything....lol). My sister... it’s so hard to actually pin point anything. She virtually can do anything so long she sees it at all. Name it, hair making, nails fixing, ‘minor’ electrical works, baking, great experimental cooking, the list goes on and on.

          Now, when God was creating this great industrious family, he looked at the couple, and something was missing. He sent a son child. Uhmmmm, he thought. Something’s still missing? Jesus asked. Yes! God answered. Then, he sent a daughter child thinking it would make it the perfect family. What, this isn’t perfect enough for you? Jesus asked. Eureka! God screamed. One more Son. One that would totally complete this family. One that would be combination of not just cuteness and brains, built and charm, but also have every handwork the other members of the family have and even more, God added.

          I don’t mean to brag but that’s how I came into existence. I grew in wisdom, in stature, in awesomeness and possessed all sorts of hand work. I sew, I write, I dance, I cook, I’m an aspiring OAP, award winning bathroom singer, up and coming photographer, I do a little bit of electrical work, plumbing work, I am terrific with ideas and plan awesome events...sigh. I can barely remember what else I do. Yet, in my ‘amazing-ness’, something was lacking. There was one obvious aspect I hadn’t ventured into.

          It was my birthday and I needed a cake. No one was going to help me out. My mom was busy with work, my brother was out of town, and my sister is “far too nice” to help me with anything. Well, like you can already guess, I decided to bake my birthday cake and I iced it as well but this isn’t much of a big deal to me even though I’m blogging about it because I iced my 13^th birthday cake all by myself.

          Enough of how awesome I am. I want to share my method of baking with you. I want you to know that there is no big deal in baking a simple cake and you shouldn’t let anyone brag on you when you can as well bake for yourself. So, that being said, this is how I went about it:

Ingredients

Flour---------------------------------675g  (1 ½ 450g of blue band margarine cup :450+225=675 *winks)

Butter-------------------------------2 sachets of Simas butter

Sugar--------------------------------500g

Eggs----------------------------------10 eggs

Flavour(s) -------------------------- vanilla, butterscotch and strawberry

Baking powder

Preservative (or alcohol)

Method

*cream your butter and sugar long enough for it to almost completely lose its yellow colour to cream

*break and beat your eggs in a bowl

*mix your baking powder in your flour in a bowl (add your preservative if you use powdered one)

*pour your beat eggs into the creamed butter and sugar and mix well

*add your powered mixtures (flour, baking powder, and preservative) and mix in one direction (clockwise or anti-clockwise)

*add a bottle cover of all your flavours (the flavour bottle cover oo)

*add your alcohol if you are using one

*pour mixture your greased baking pan(s) and put in the oven to bake for 50mins to 1hour (depending on the size of your cake though)

Icing

Ingredients: 2 icing sugar, 1 ½  Simas butter and cherry*

Method

*cream your butter and icing sugar till they mix together

*Add colour if desired

*put in your icing pump and you are good to ice your cake

N.B:

All procedures and ingredients above are what I used for mine. Baking could include a lot more ingredients and methods than these.

         So, next time you feel like eating a cake, no matter who you are, look within you and tell yourself ‘ yes! I can’ and get baking. There’s nothing to it.

Enjoy!