A 10 day gap

I'll be away in India for 10 days on an AFS project. I'll be in Vadodara and New Dehli. I'm so thrilled about it. Never ever been there!
No posts until I come back home....
I've found this song by the Beatles and I think it's the right tune for my Indian experience. It was written by George Harrison but it's not very famous. So.. a good chance to listen to it

Song: The inner light
Let the Indian wisdom inspire your day

Cake nine

Cupcakes: variations on a theme

I think cupcakes are the most versatile of cakes. You're totally free with them, you can decide all except for the shape, of course, which is like a cup. 

When I’m there ready to make them, I feel like an artist in front of a blank canvas. The magic world of fantasy opens its gates and there I am deciding about cake mixture, topping and decorations. I’m a magician or am I not? You can venture in complicated shapes or simply play with coloured surfaces and sugar decorations. Details make the difference and they can be your unique creation! 

                       

When my kids were younger I used to bake any kind of cake in small baking cups and gave them for school. It was quick and easy, no need to cut a cake. Then after some years I saw the first 'cupcake' in a tea room in England and there I was: the spell was cast!

Song: Magical Mystery Tour

Ready to start? Sign in for the Magical Mystery Tour and let your fantasy take you away...

for the recipe follow me on:
http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2012/11/cake-nine-cupcakes-variation-on-theme.html

Cake eight

Pavlova with strawberries

It isn’t long since I first saw this cake on a book.. It was on my way back home from one of my trips to England and I was looking through one of the new books I had just bought when I read this name: Pavlova. I was kind of flashed back in one of the sumptuous balls at the court of the Tsars in Russia. It was  certainly a cake for a young princess, as it looked like a white silk chiffon evening dress.. It was love at first sight!

I was partly right: the cake was named after a famous Russian dancer, Anna Pavlova, and created in her  honour in one of her tours to Australia and New Zealand in the 1920’s. It’s a popular dish in both countries but formal research indicates New Zealand as the source.

Song: I’m so happy to dance with you

So what are you waiting for? Close your eyes and join in the dance

for the recipe follow me on:
http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2012/11/cake-eight-pavlova-with-strawberries.html

Cake seven

Ice Cream Bombe

Cake or ice cream? A sponge with a heart of delicious home made ice cream or the other way round a hemisphere of ice cream hidden in a sponge? 

See it the way you want but this cake is incredibly good!! 
It’s an ice cream cake that belongs to my childhood, we only bought it for special occasions when we had guests in summer and I loved it! 
Still one of my favourites...

Song: We can work it out 

Different points of view? Let’s try and get it straight

for the recipe follow me on:
http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2012/11/cake-seven-ice-cream-bombe.html

Cake six

Apricot Dreamin’

Another very hot day today, another day I’ve been dreaming to be on a beach, enjoying the fresh breeze coming from the sea and swimming in deep blue waters.. I love the summer and the blue sea though I’m not so lucky to live near the coast!

On such days what I really like are tomatoes, fruit and icecream. Something fresh and yummy like this cake would be good!

Apticot Dreamin’ is a cold fruit pudding perfect for this time of the year...

Song: A yellow submarine

Wouldn’t it be nice to live underwater?

for the recipe follow me on:

http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2012/11/cake-six-apricot-dreamin.html