Rose's Heavenly Cakes - Review

In my initial days of baking and decorating, I realised that I needed a basic knowledge of cake varieties which would help me to choose my most important part of making cakes - the CAKE itself.

Though there were millions of sources online for cake recipes, a cake book is something that I considered essential. And thats when "Rose's Heavenly Cakes" by Rose Levy Beranbaum helped me. The author is an award-winning baker who is also the author of "The Cake Bible", another of her bestselling cookbooks.

 

This book contains huge variations in cakes right from sponge cakes, butter cakes to the most sought-after Wedding cakes. The detailed step by step instructions with ingredient lists in tabular forms are one of the reasons that made me buy this.

The book features many tips and tricks for creating tasty cakes with beautiful perfection. Each recipe is also accompanied with tempting full color photos.

For a rate of $26.37, I find this book a real treasure for any baker!

Fruit Cake with dates and raisins

This cake has been in my to-do lists for a long time now. A request from a friend for this special cake made this even more special. I had been browsing online for many good recipes for a fruit cake and finally decided to customize a recipe that I stumbled upon.

Basically, this is the usual yellow cake recipe with the addition of caramel syrup, dates and raisins. You could add any soft fruit as desired. Almonds or any nuts could also be used to make it crunchy.

I used a home made chocolate ganache for the filling and topping. Though the ganache turned out a liquid disaster, I was able to rectify that by freezing the whole mixture for more than a day!

The mehandi design by a friend was an added enhancement to the cake.

Tip:

• Soak the fruits in grape juice or any juice of your own choice for a day! Drain the juice and mix them in all purpose flour. This prevents the fruits from settling at the bottom of the cake.   
• While using mehandi designs on cake, make sure that the designs are not too close to each other and avoid too intricate patterns.
• When making ganache, be careful about the cream vs chocolate proportion. Use a 1:1 mixture to achieve thick ganache.

Highlight: A big Hit among friends!

A new Day! A new Way!

Back to blogging seems to be something that I had not thought of. But sometimes, Life has its own plans! Stumbling upon Caking and its nuances has been a treasure for me to be cherished!

As I start this journey of blogging for my passion, hoping to learn each and every ups and downs of this edible ART.

WELCOME TO SWEET DELIGHTS!

Cheers,
Shiv